ILuvEire wrote:What about Arabic? It's spoken throughout the middle east and much of Northern Africa.
polishboy wrote:India has many nationalities living in.
alijsh wrote:ILuvEire wrote:What about Arabic? It's spoken throughout the middle east and much of Northern Africa.
As for Middle East, it's basically spoken among people who call themselves "Arab" and not other ethnic groups and there are many "Arab" countries in the region. Iranian peoples (Persians, Kurds, Pashtuns, Lurs, etc.) and Turkic peoples have their own languages. I mean it doesn't have much inter-ethnic use in non-Arab countries. For example, in Iran with different ethnic groups like Persians, Kurds, Lurs, Arabs, Armenians and Turkic peoples it's Persian which is normally used as the inter-ethnic language and not even Azeri let alone Arabic. Even in Iran it's possible for example that a Kurd and a Lur use Kurdish or Luri to communicate each other even though they both know Persian. Persian had also such a role in India before the British conquest. I don't know much about it (please enlighten me) but I don't think Arabic has ever been used much by ordinary people of different ethnic groups (in non-Arab regions) to communicate each other. It was mainly used among scientists (like Latin for Western scientists). For example, Iranian scientists like Avicenna wrote most of their books in Arabic (he has also books in Persian). I think Persian has had a more inter-ethnic role than Arabic; even the influence of Arabic on regional languages like Urdu and Turkish has been mainly thru Persian.
Formiko wrote:Even indonesian is an Artificial language (made by a commitee rather than an individual).
Formiko wrote:I think it has to do with the ease of Persian. As natural languages go, the only language easier than Persian is Indonesian (not counting some African langages or even Swedish). Even indonesian is an Artificial language (made by a commitee rather than an individual). Has Persian ALWAYS been simple, or has it BECOME simple due to it being a lingua franca?
eskandar wrote:
In my opinion, some of the "easiest" languages (which is of course a very subjective term anyway) are Indonesian, Swahili, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.
loqu wrote:how can Spanish be easy? I mean, not that I think that my language is one of the hardest in the world, but come on, it's IE. Spanish verbs (and in other Romance languages) are hard even for natives.
TheKickInside wrote:For the most interracial language, I would have to say English, because of the sheer diversity of the United States alone, though I'd imagine Russian is a close second.
secretGeek on CodingHorror wrote:Type inference is not a gateway drug to more dynamically typed languages.
Rather "var" is a gateway drug toward "real" type inferencing, of which var is but a tiny cigarette to the greater crack mountain!
Return to “General Language Forum”
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests