Which language should be the world's official common language?
   
2973 votes total

 Vote here if the future global language should be an existing "Natural Language". The following alphabetical list shows the 20 most widely spoken languages in the world. If the language you want is not on the list, vote for "Other existing natural language". Write down the name of your chosen language under 5.
 
  English (287) 23%
  Other existing natural language (259) 21%
  Arabic (162) 13%
  French (91) 7%
  Portuguese (91) 7%
  Spanish (83) 7%
  Russian (51) 4%
  Mandarin (46) 4%
  German (39) 3%
  Turkish (18) 1%
  Japanese (16) 1%
  Bengali (13) 1%
  Cantonese (13) 1%
  Javanese (13) 1%
  Hindi (12) 1%
  Wu (11) 1%
  Tamil (10) 1%
  Korean (10) 1%
  Vietnamese (9) 1%
  Marathi (8) 1%
  Telugu (8) 1%
 
 Vote here if the future global language should be an existing "Constructed International Language". The following alphabetical list shows 10 of such recognized languages. If the language you want is not on the list, vote for "Other existing constructed language" . Write down the name of your chosen language under 6.
 
  Esperanto (1952) 77%
  Ido (156) 6%
  Interlingua (IALA) (116) 5%
  Other existing constructed language (90) 4%
  Glosa (39) 2%
  Lingua Franca Nova (37) 1%
  Universal Networking Language (33) 1%
  Occidental (27) 1%
  Loglan (26) 1%
  Eurolang (25) 1%
  Next Generation Language (23) 1%
 
 Vote here if the future global language should be a
 
  Newly Developed Language (227) 100%
 
 What is the main reason for your decision? Please also mention the name of your chosen language.
 
 1. many, but later
 2. Like English, French is spoken on all the major continents. There is the possibility to expose much of the world to the French language. The grammar is straightforward and would be easy to pick up for those millions of people who already speak English or Spanish. A number of stable and powerful countries use French as an official language already (Switzerland, France, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg) which is excellent for consistency. However, it is unfortunate that the many African countries that use French are also considered economically disadvantaged and lacking in stability. It would be fantastic to utilize those French speakers more in the economically advantaged countries as well.
 3. I believe that Euroclones are overdone and overrated. A simplified form of Proto-Indo-European or another Proto should be used to create a more level playing ground.
 4. Esperanto
 5. Spanish is easy to learn and could easily be my second language. It obeys rules and has fewer exceptions that other languages.
 6. Glosa is easy to learn - basically a matter of memorising words as grammar is virtually non-existent. Most words are derived from Latin or Greek - languages from which the scientific community have derived their terminology over hundreds of years. Pronounciation is easy - a letter represents only one sound and a Glosa word represents just one concept. For someone such as me (interested in language but poor at learning) Glosa is the answer - I really enjoy learning the language. Years ago I studied Esperanto and later Spanish. In my view Esperanto is much more difficult to learn than Glosa. I found Spanish grammar very difficult to cope with plus
 7. english is already so well built up it would take centuries to establish another language.
 8. Portuguese because Brazil is growing
 9. The reason for choosing English as the world's global language is that it is the most studied language in the world and most scholarly publications are printed in English. However, the word global is misleading as there are a number of global languages in the world following the
 10. Esperanto estas bonega lingvo. Mi konas Ĝin. Mi ne konas alian lingvon.
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 If you voted "Other existing natural language" under 1., write down the name of your chosen language in this box:
 
 1. greek
 2. Deutsch
 3. Spanish
 4. -/-
 5. Occitan
 6. ENGLISH
 7. Greek
 8. Esperanto
 9. Hindi
 10. English
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 If you voted "Other existing constructed language" under 2., write down the name of your chosen language in this box:
 
 1. Esperanto
 2. -/-
 3. Standard Arabic
 4. Standard Arabic
 5. ancient Greek
 6. toki pona
 7. To be designed
 8. ARABIC
 9. Interlingua
 10. Modernized and desexed Esperanto
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 If you voted for "New Language" under 3., write down your ideas, criteria and suggestions about such a new language:
 
 1. many, but later
 2. Proto something. But simplified. The current PIE project is uneccesarily complicated and impractical.
 3. - siehe Punkt 4 - Das Hauptproblem bei der Realisierung einer konstruierten
 4. This language should be laconic, short, expressive, simple, sound impressive, calligraphically beautiful such as English and French (anyway without diacritics). In one word has to have competitive advantage over, basically, French and English.
 5. 1. Should have only one set of symbols- lower case is really another set to learn, not necessary. 2. Should have no legacy baggage..... 3. Should be easy to pick up - not too many rules,,,or exceptions either,,, 4. Should be my language - GALAK
 6. Assign a team of linguists to the task, who would be able to analyze the most common sounds in human languages so that all new speakers would be able to form the sounds, and the most common grammatical aspects of the major languages to make it the easiest for as many people as possible. And ensure that the writing system is entirely logical and that there are virtually no exceptions to rules.
 7. Standard Arabic was, is and will be one of the greatest languages of the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language
 8. As a 35-year Esperantist, I opt for a
 9. A new, neutral, and fair language created by international consensus
 10. See 4.
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 What is your native language?
 
  Other language (602) 21%
  English (524) 18%
  French (444) 16%
  Portuguese (249) 9%
  German (219) 8%
  Spanish (186) 6%
  Arabic (153) 5%
  Russian (131) 5%
  Italian (93) 3%
  Polish (62) 2%
  Japanese (29) 1%
  Mandarin (22) 1%
  Cantonese (21) 1%
  Tamil (15) 1%
  Korean (13) 0%
  Ukrainian (13) 0%
  Hindi (11) 0%
  Min Nan (8) 0%
  Telugu (8) 0%
  Bengali (7) 0%
  Gujarati (7) 0%
  Marathi (7) 0%
  Jinyu (6) 0%
  Urdu (6) 0%
  Malayalam (6) 0%
  Wu (6) 0%
  Javanese (5) 0%
  Vietnamese (5) 0%
  Xian (2) 0%
  Panjabi (2) 0%
 
 Where are you from?
 
  France (370) 13%
  United States (279) 10%
  Brazil (225) 8%
  Germany (175) 6%
  Abkhazia (125) 4%
  Belgium (121) 4%
  Spain (102) 4%
  Netherlands (91) 3%
  United Kingdom (88) 3%
  Italy (87) 3%
  Hungary (86) 3%
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  Russia (74) 3%
  Australia (73) 3%
  Poland (56) 2%
  Israel (48) 2%
  Sweden (30) 1%
  Ukraine (28) 1%
  Denmark (28) 1%
  Switzerland (26) 1%
  Finland (26) 1%
  Japan (26) 1%
  Argentina (25) 1%
  Lithuania (24) 1%
  Austria (23) 1%
  Croatia (22) 1%
  Portugal (22) 1%
  Mexico (19) 1%
  China (17) 1%
  Norway (16) 1%
  Ireland (15) 1%
  Romania (15) 1%
  Colombia (14) 0%
  Slovenia (14) 0%
  Greece (14) 0%
  India (13) 0%
  New Zealand (12) 0%
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  Czech Republic (9) 0%
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Posted By: Euyasik

Posted On: February 11th
Views: 1085
DO WE NEED ?

DO WE NEED
a common, neutral, auxiliary language?
(by Euyasik, Germany)

Do we need a common, a neutral, an auxiliary language, a language that you can easily learn because of the simple grammar and a vocabulary that consists of many words with roots that you already have in your mother tongue? Do we need such an international auxiliary language?

The answer is very clear: _ W_e___d_o___N_O_T___n_e_e_d___i_t_.

There is absolutely no need to have a common language. And this is not a hypothesis; this can easily be proved.

Before I go to prove it I want to present some analogies.

If you have reached a certain age, you will remember what things were like 25 years ago. Nobody had a mobile phone in those days. And what is very important: nobody had the feeling that he would need a mobile phone.

Until about 1950 or so, my grandparents ran a little grocer's shop in a small village. They had no phone and they had no car, no delivery van or lorry. Today you would say it is impossible to run a shop without such utilities. They managed it and did not even miss having no phone or car.

Let's go back before the Neolithic Revolution, lets go to the Old Stone Age when our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers. They had no houses, no beds and surely no TV-set. And they did not miss it! For thousands of years men lived without house or bed.

What does this prove? Men do not need televisions, phones, cars, nor even do we need a house or a bed. An important point: Men do not miss things that are yet not widely used, and of course he can not miss things that are yet unknown.

It is the same with an International Auxiliary Language. We do not need it. For thousands of years men have lived without an International Auxiliary Language. We do not miss the absence of a common language. Most people do not even know that there are quite a lot of excellent Auxiliary Languages; they cannot miss them. Those who have heard about them do not miss them either because there is as yet no really widely used auxlang.

My question: Would you like to live without your home, without your bed? Would you like to abstain from using your phone, your mobile phone or television? No! - Why? Because you have learned to appreciate the advantages of these things.

Once more: It is just the same with an International Auxiliary language. You cannot discover the advantages of such a language unless it becomes adopted. And when you have experienced the advantages, you will never want to abstain from them.


Posted By: Hiwa Kurdistan

Posted On: Oct 25, 2008
Views: 1890
esperanto

i think Esperanto is the best option.
nur per esperanto oni povas havi saman rajton por iterparoli.

best
Hiwa Karimi from Kurdistan


Posted By: Thomas B. Albright

Posted On: Sep 1, 2008
Views: 2337
A New Language by Sime Sheef

I appreciate the comments, but fail to appreciate the significance of it. I think we need simplification to a practical extent. Please see www.wfs.org/albright07/htm.


Posted By: Sime Sheef

Posted On: Aug 24, 2008
Views: 2413
A new language

Humans can pronounce approximately 22 consonants, 2 semi-consonants (Y and W), 9 vowels, and 2 semivowels. This leaves us 264 unique "single-syllable combinations". If we force the normal grammatical structure to be Noun, Verb, Noun; and set-off Modifiers by accenting them, we can create three meanings from each "single-syllable combination" (Ex: if "ki" means death when used as a noun, then "ki" would mean kill as a verb, and when accented it would been "kill like" or morbid). This gives us 792 unique single-syllable words. This is adequate for a language base.

Names are created by certain logical combinations beginning with the base-word for "name". People would describe their world by adding Modifiers to the end of nouns instead of compounding the nouns. With a base like "Ki", adding on only two Modifiers, gives you an availability of 627,264 meanings, all having something to do with death; yet, your audience would understand exactly which meaning your describing because your modifiers are specific to what you're trying to describe. I'm very, very interested in this project. I've already created the beginnings of the language I have described and would like help and critique.


Posted By: Dan

Posted On: Apr 16, 2008
Views: 3581
Interlingua

For me, the most striking feature of Interlingua is its ease of learning. I was writing sentences in Interlingua after just two days of reading Panorama and looking up the few words I didn't recognize. Certainly Esperanto and Ido are easier to learn than, say, Spanish or French. But when Esperantists talk about the ease of their language, they generally mean it can be learned in months, compared to years for natural languages. Ido is easier, but again, not nearly as easy as Interlingua.

Some advocates of Esperanto or Ido argue that Interlingua has a Western bias that limits its ease to speakers of the Western languages. This reflects a misunderstanding. All international auxiliary languages have a Western bias, but only Interlingua has been developed to reduce this bias as much as possible. The researchers of IALA selected Interlingua's control languages to give it the most international possible vocabulary. They stopped adding languages when tests showed that doing so didn't produce a further increase of internationality.

According to Claude Piron, 70% of Esperanto's vocabulary is Romance, and most of that is specifically French. So it's curious that an Esperantist would suggest that Interlingua has a Western bias. Certainly Ido has a fairly broad-based vocabulary. What Interlingua has that Ido doesn't is an objective procedure to maximize its internationality. And I personally know, or know of, people from China, the Philippines, India, and many other non-Western countries who have learned Interlingua in less than a week.


Posted By: Thomas B. Albright

Posted On: Oct 22, 2007
Views: 5062
World Language Now

The 21st Century Co. in Lewisville, TX. has promotion printed a 134 page Instruction book and a 514 page diktionare for "Wurlang(tm) - The Wurld Languege". It is a simplified version of cumbersome English with only two pronunciation marks that can be emailed. The diktionare is listed by sound. A partial description is shown on .


Posted By: Thomas B. Albright

Posted On: May 18, 2007
Views: 6384
Elusive World Language

Air traffic control and much of the world economy use conventional English in daily efforts. A simplified version of the English language is needed for globalization, as well as ease of understanding. It is also needed for world peace because all major wars have been between nations of different languages.


Posted By: Eduardo Navas

Posted On: Jan 23, 2007
Views: 7165
plenumeblo

Nu, Esperanto estas vere vivanta lingvo. Ĝi estas multe pli facile lernebla far ĉiu ajn ol iu ajn nacia lingvo.

Ĝi estas la plej parolata planlingvo en la tuta mondo (multe pli ol ĉiuj aliaj), havas la plej ampleksan literaturon k estas tute matura lingvo. Kaj la plej grava afero: ĝi NE estas eŭropeca lingvo.

Kelkaj nescie asertas ke ĝi estas eŭropeca lingvo, sed tio tute malveras. Eo estas ĉies, jam parolata en multaj landoj, k ĝiaj uzantoj plimultiĝas pli k pli ekde 1887.

Pro tiuj kialoj, eo estas la plej facile oficialigebla planlingvo tutmonde.


Posted By: Dmitry

Posted On: Oct 12, 2006
Views: 7760
Why Lingwa de Planeta (LdP)

We believe that a global universal language, as a harmonious whole on the basis of most spoken national languages, will necessarily arise. And we are not so much constructing another artificial language as we are trying to discern the obligatory features of the future global interlanguage and to embody them, in order to facilitate its coming into being and to promote linguistic and general integration of mankind. LdP is a first conscious step towards the forming global language.

Lingwa de Planeta is a simple and naturalistic language on the basis of the ten most widely spoken world languages including six European—English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian—and Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and Arabic. Thus, LdP is being created as a language which may be perceived by the bulk of the planet's population not only as neutral, but as a common language with a certain smack of their native languages. We attach much importance to psychology: elements of one's native language in a constructed language evoke positive emotions and increase greatly one's motivation to learn it. Therefore, although LdP is largely Europe-centered, we are counting also on the interest of Russian, Chinese, Hindi and Arabic speakers.

Read more at our site: http://lingwadeplaneta.info/en/index.shtml
and join our team!


Posted By: jeanne

Posted On: Oct 6, 2006
Views: 7783
language

why ook for somwthing complicated when sign language for the deaf is already available for all to use? It is easily taught in school and can be a requirement for all school aged children all over the world. Speaking in hand signals rather than spoken words is like using "glifs" in place of letters, only these glifs are not drawn on walls, rather they are formed by our hands. Shouldnt be so difficult.


Posted By: Market Guy

Posted On: Jul 30, 2006
Views: 8087
Language by Election?

I don't think a question so important as an International Language should be left to the clumsy and crazy institutions known as governments. The market should decide this one. Imposing a language on the world by force, even if by "election," will require a Global Government, which would be hell to live under. It would be much better if an IL arose from the already existing and largely benign Global Market. After all, if an IL could make it through all that competition with the natural languages and other constructed languages, then it would be guaranteed to be a good one.


Posted By: Dr Shabby auxlang

Posted On: Jul 28, 2006
Views: 8060
auxlang

I´d like to make clear one thing with respect to Esperanto. It maight be the simplest language IN RELATION to natural languages, but NOT in relation to many other contructed languages. Mr Zamenhoff deserves respect for his project and being the first who TRUELY made an attempt to offer a simple international language (Volapuk for example seems an odd german), but I am afraid its project has now become EXTREMELY complicated, a bit shabby and with an intebse european smell. Now you can find serious conlangs that are by far, much more simple. Just have a look on internet at any other attempt of international auxlang(not only ido if you are very concern, try novial, sona, interlingua, interlingue or glosa as many others) and compare without prejudice. By the way, have you realised how bigoted they are when somebody points to some flaws in Esperanto


Posted By: Henry V. Janoski

Posted On: Apr 7, 2006
Views: 8426
La oficiala "dua lingvo" de la EU

Oni devas komenci en la Europa Unio, kie 20 lingvoj nun estas "oficialaj" kaj la irlanda estos aldonita en 2007! Estas idiota! Ekzemple, chu estas persono kiu povas traduki el la malta en la finnan? Bezonas Esperanton, kiel pontolingvo, la "dua lingvo" de chiuj. Poste la UN kaj la restajho de la mondo sekvos.


Posted By: Gaius Metelus Livius

Posted On: Dec 30, 2005
Views: 8513
Lingua universalia

Salvete amici,

modo dicere volo latinam linguam vera fuisse, vera esse atque vera futurum esse.

Nolite invenire novas linguas, quae non naturales sint, et quam iamdiu habemus, utemur.

Multas gratias vobis ago.

Valete.


Posted By: Auto

Posted On: Nov 21, 2005
Views: 8166
Auxi

Esta claro que ciertas culturas a han influenciado a otras , occidente a influenciado brutalmente a oriente, positiva o negatimamente segun se vea, las ideologias , como la democracia o bien el comunismo, que en un momento dividieron al mundo, provienen de occidente y han sido exportadas y desarrolladas por los paises orientales ,pero el origen de sus nombres , su etimologia, y en que da a entender su contenido ,es de origen greco-romano. No hay caso intentar esconder el vocabulario occidental en las lenguas auxiliares, es un una desfachates que el esperanto siga proclamando su absoluta neutralidad cultural cuando su vocabulario es europeo, tan solo ha sido desfigurado y como resultado: una jerigonza esperpentica. No se pretende dominar el mundo con las lenguas auxiliares, sean de origen occidentales u orientales, tan solo elegir la opcion mas ecuanime para todas las partes sin deformar las lenguas. es claro tambien que ciertos idiomas no han entrado a los pais de la forma mas noble , seria injusto y cruel intentar establecer una lengua que fue la lengua de un imperio , no queremos volver al tiempo de las colonias . pero en el caso de glosa su entrada a los paises ha sido atraves de una expancion no material, si no de conocimientos. Me gusta este ejemplo en particular : todo occidente sabe que la ciencia que conocemos como acupuntura, es una ciensa china, pero tambien sabemos la etimologia de la palabra acupuntura? pues aku en griego es aguja , es obio, lo se, una ciensa oriental que se conose atraves del mundo con una nombre occidental ,por eso glosa recoje el origen de estas palabras universales,glosa no niega que sus origenes son occidentales , pero entiende que es universal ya que atraves de la ciencia , que es universal , esta se ha hecho universal.


Posted By: Ronaldo

Posted On: Oct 4, 2005
Views: 7937
UNL

i won't talk about esperanto (which I speak and support until something even better comes along - which is highly improbable).

I am surprised that Universal Networking Language is mentioned. Isn't UNL some kind of
refined english ? That is, it uses english words improved with numbers so that a spanish-speaking person knows which of the 132 meanings of the english word "set" is meant.

I don't see how a real person could speak or read such a thing


Posted By: Molnár László

Posted On: Sep 2, 2005
Views: 7674
informpeto


Estimata Redakcio!

Por kontakti Vin mi sxatus ekkoni
la retadreson de la redakcio.
Cxu Vi povus helpi min?

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Posted By: Molnár László

Posted On: Sep 1, 2005
Views: 7554
Which languages should be ...


Altestimataj Gelegantoj!

La vocxdonado estas ne nur bonega ideo,ecx necesa informejo pri tio,kiamaniere oni opinias pri la necesa komuna lingvo de la mondo kaj kio estas onies kialoj,argumentoj favore al la elektita lingvo.

La rezulto en si mem klare montras,ke ESPERANTO daure staras sur la 1-a loko inter la pontolingvoj.Tiu cxi fakto estas ege konsiderinda kaj pruvas,ke ESPERANTO nuntempe estas la plej racia ,celkonscia,ekonomia solvo de la lingvaj kaj financaj problemoj,cxu temas pri apartaj kontinentoj,cxu pri la tuta mondo.

Mi estas profunde konvinkita pri tio,ke -lau la propedeutikaj valoroj,inter ili lernofaciliga rolo - per ellernado de E.dum la plej mallonga tempo povus esti solvind/endaj la supremenciitaj malfacilajxoj.

Mi klare scias kaj komprenas la opiniojn de kontrauuloj.Ili devenas antau cxio el ekonomiaj,financaj interesoj,avantagxoj.
Lau mi la demando estas:cxu la kontrauuloj,koncernataj homgrupoj povas sxangxi siajn pensmanierojn,au ne.

La pli ol 100-jara ekzistado de ESPERANTO konstante pruvis/as/os siajn uzeblecon,vivo- kaj evoluigkapablon.Malgrau tio,la dezirind/enda disvastigxo ,bedaurinde ne realigxis.
La pli rapidan antauenigon malhelpis/as/os ?/
ne la lingvo mem,sed la pensmaniero de la koncernataj homoj.

Se la cxiuj argumentoj cxeestas por antauenigi la aferon de ESPERANTO,kial hardefendadi,plu analizi la aksiomon?
Se iu ajn scipovas respondon,bonvolu min informi.

Kun respektplenaj salutoj:
Molnár László


Posted By: Molnár László

Posted On: Sep 1, 2005
Views: 6862
Which languages should be ...


Altestimataj Gelegantoj!

La vocxdonado estas ne nur bonega ideo,ecx necesa informejo pri tio,kiamaniere oni opinias pri la necesa komuna lingvo de la mondo kaj kio estas onies kialoj,argumentoj favore al la elektita lingvo.

La rezulto en si mem klare montras,ke ESPERANTO daure staras sur la 1-a loko inter la pontolingvoj


Posted By: Somebody who like Esperanto

Posted On: Jul 11, 2005
Views: 6087
Who is "Globa Lingo"?

Globa Lingo, you wrote foolish things.
Do you know Esperanto? If not,please know it, if yes, I'm sad, that you have so bad opinion.
Eperanto is an easy, logical, neutral language.
It should be the world's official common language!


Posted By: Jorgos

Posted On: Jul 9, 2005
Views: 5693
???

...comment on fait pour voter ?

moi je demande ŕ apprendre d'abord l'Esperanto, puis toutes les langues en danger de mort ! na !

Js.


Posted By: Vojaĝamanto

Posted On: May 17, 2005
Views: 5601
Monda lingvo

Mi pensas, ke esperanto jam estas uzata, kiel internacia tutmonda lingvo. Eble ne multegaj parolas ĝin, sed jam estas sufiĉe multaj, tiel kiel oni povas uzi la lingvon diversmaniere.


Posted By: µĄŔĚşű

Posted On: Apr 24, 2005
Views: 5417
Ido, Esperanto, etc.

I probably would have picked Esperanto a month back but since then I took a look at all the available IALs and Ido looks to be the best candidate. Half of the reason for that is thanks to Esperanto; if the three candidates (Ido, Esperanto, Interlingua) had the exact same number of speakers I might have chosen Interlingua as it has that romantic 'new Latin' flair, but since it's quite different from the others, chosing it would mean that the work the millions of Esperantists have put into their language would have gone to nothing. Ido benefits from having more Esperanto speakers, and sells itself well as a nicer-looking Esperanto without the diacriticals and easier-to-use adjectives, plurals, and so on. Sounds nicer too without the -j on the end all the time.

I often wonder what will happen if either of them obtains a position of power. Will the other group resolutely stick to its guns and base its identity on the language, will they squabble over which one is better? It's quite humorous to see two languages intending to promulgate world peace squabbling the way they do. I say let the Esperantist make his case, let the Idist make his (or 'lua' since we can use that word in Ido) and then see what happens. In either case I would be happiest to see Ido become the most well-known IAL, somewhat less overjoyed but still happy if Esperanto were to. Better having one than none at all.


Posted By: Stephen A. Berard

Posted On: Mar 6, 2005
Views: 5763
Latin should be at least listed.

Linguam Latinam omnium gentium esse sciunt omnes. Vocabulis Latinis nituntur omnes fere linguae. Plus duo millennia Latinitas floruit. Lingua Latina est lingua vera, non ficticia. Omnis fere generis litterae scriptae sunt Latine. Ergo in indice saltem ponenda est lingua Latina.
Anglice: Everyone knows that Latin is the most international language. Almost all languages use Latin vocabulary. Latin has flourished for over two millennia. Latin is not a made-up language. Almost all kinds of literature have been written in Latin. Latin should therefore at least be on the list.


Posted By: Luis Guillermo RESTREPO RIVAS

Posted On: Feb 1, 2005
Views: 6050
Kia ignoranta stultulo!

Kia ignoranta stultulo estas tiu kiu skribis kun la nomo "Globa Lingo"!


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