The worst part of this is that Icelandic people are usually expected to learn another Nordic language, and Danish is the most common choice. In other words, Danish _technically is_ an international language!
Denmark, Faeroe Islands, Greenland, plus one of the variants of Norwegian as I understand it is very similar to Danish, and its widely spoken in Iceland. So it seems to be fairly international.
Surprised there wasn't a jibe about the worst possible international language being a creole of three different languages with the grammar of a fourth imposed arbitrarily a few hundred years ago; with spelling so inconsistent native speakers don't understand the rules; almost two entire separate vocabularies, one more 'high-class' than the other; and pitch and stress rules that aren't formalised and so can't be taught. But at least it doesn't have any accented characters. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to the café.
Somebody ought to define the vocabulary of that abve-mentioned language. Out of a million possible words how many should be used for easy English, how many for advanced English and how many for excellent English? Simply because of that fact I gave up learning new words in English long ago. And some journal named "Spotlight" justifies its existence by always "delving" (another great word) into that impossible one-million word vocabulary.
I wouldn’t really consider mandarin an International language. It is pretty much exclusively spoken by Han people or people in Han majority countries, and is the official language of only three countries, two of which claim to be the legitimate government of the same country and the third has a massive Han population.
I think the only true ‘global’ language is English at the moment. But the others he mentioned are very widespread in their regions, arabic being the Middle East, Spanish central/South America, French in Africa, and mandarin in Eastern Asia to an extent. I think you have to take into account the huge diaspora from all these languages too, they all have huge populations in countries where they’re minority. That’s my grain of sand!
English is still an international language in Asia. It's not uncommon to see Chinese tourists speaking English in Thailand, etc. Of course, a Chinese dialect might be spoken at home as a family's heritage language and Mandarin is studied at school but when all else fails, folks will try English.
@@frisianmouve True! It's kind of fun watching folks arguing about what radical to use in an obscure character. If they don't have anything to write on they'll start drawing in the air with their fingers. I guess the analogy is Europeans and Americans correcting each other's spelling in the comments.
No one here in Denmark understands our bizarre language anyway! We have this super cool and unique but also super gross sounding phonological feature, stød, and no one here even knows how gross and unique they are! Anyway, rød grød med fløde! ❤️
@@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770 Som udlænding har jeg altid lært, at man bruger "da" når det drejer sig om en handling i fortiden og "når" når det drejer sig om en gentagen handling. Is that right?Jeg bruger tit "da" i stedet for "fordi" ligesom man gør på tysk:-)
Despite the war, Russian still is more credible than Mandarin as a lingua franca. The whole former Soviet bloc is 12% of Earth, plus Eastern Europe. It's also a very good example of hell too for learning at the same time.
I would disagree, since number of Russian speaker counting to max number is less than 300 million. That's only around 1/3 of low estimate for Mandarin.
@@smergthedargon8974 Even if they are in 1 country, there are more people speak Mandarin than 3 times Russian. This brings Mandarin as better lingua franca.
i think ainu would be the worst; theres only like 3 people who speak it fluently, large parts of the desendents from the culture dont like to admit it, the writing system they use wasn't made for their language so it's a mess, and to top it all off no other language is like it.
Check out the Ket language, its from the middle of Siberia and its really cool. it doesnt stand out in comparison with these languages but its still really awesome
When people ask me what my superpower is, one of those answer is: "I speak Danish." I think this video just gave me an extra level of coolness. Thanks! :)
The Danes have an annoying habit of putting News about their Royal Family , sand especially Crown Princess Mary , on the Internet ,only in Danish, when they can all speak English anyway. Norwegian and Swedish are the same language, written with slightly different spelling, They Norwegians and Swedes can understand written Danish , but not the spoken language. Even Crown Prince Frederik does not speak English as well sas he did, because he had to speak Danish even in his home to help his wife learn this difficult language. My husband and I grew up in Cumberland , and spoke the local language , as well as speaking English . Its sounds are like Danish, but it is in fact like the Norse spoken in south east Norway. The population is relatively pure because until the roads out were improved 20 yearsago Cumbria was almost cut off from the main British road system and the rail system goes a long roundabout way along the coast . When we did his DNA it came out as 59% Norwegian , 22% Swedish, 18% Scottish , and only 1% English ( from his Great,grandmother) . Cumbrian should be the world language so that the Danes would not have to use English.
It's very funny for an English speaker to call Danish a terrible language. It's a bit like a younger brother growing up, seeing his older brother has grown small and frail, then kicking him square in the balls.
I would have included other criteria in this list related to writing and reading. Arcane spelling irregularities, complex writing system, phonetic writing systems where the characters don't closely match the phonemes, difficult to render .... English would be a contender because of our awful use of the Latin alphabet. Thai might be on the list for its abugida which has similar issues to English, but primarily by retaining completely arcane superfluous characters from centuries earlier. Japanese is notoriously difficult to learn because of it's writing systems. Ancient Maya too. Those glyphs ... As challenging to learn as Egyptian hieroglyphs, but each glyph is even more complex.
Globalisation without language d3ath would be awesome! If we all chose a language of interest to learn instead of only English as secondary. Not everyone speaks English anyway.
No it wouldn't. In fact, one language but separate ethnic ancestrally based states with strong borders would be even better. We could still communicate online but stay in our own homelands.
@@daveanderson8927 I disagree. 1. Speaking a different language makes you think in a different way, and we always welcome new ideas. 2. Dangerous ideologies, that can spread fast, have difficulties spreading over to a population of another language. 3. Sometimes language is the only thing holding a culture (different from mainstream) together. Imagine a boring world where 7000+ cultures disappeared because someone wanted a global dominant language. I like diversity and international cooperation, however recently I've realized that globalisation just seems to be a fancy word for global dominaton and contoll. A few ethnically mixed countries needs to exist in order to have peace, however if every country would be a English speaking mix ethnic group, the there is no reason to travel anymore is there?
There's a video out there about a repetoire of signs that's common to apes across all species. If true, it's a remarkable finding. Communicating emotion goes back even deeper into the animal past and crosses many more species. The more primal the emotion, ie aggression and fear, the more universally understood it is. Representing abstract symbolic thought is a lot more complicated than communicating fear, obviously, but it's an ability that was built up from earlier communication strategies by natural selection. Our ability to exchange intellectual information positivity affects our ability to pass on genetic information. We might be seeing the next layer of information exchange strategies emerging at this moment in history with the creation of artificial AI personalities. Our ability to interact socially was at first constrained by proximity and time. Then came writing. Now we have computers but despite being linkex to the world, our monkey minds are still constrained by the speed of biological processes AIs can think at the speed of electricity and interact potentially with everyone online at a given moment. Someone is going to set one up as God or Jesus sometime soon and that's gonna be fun to watch.
Hahaha, came in to this video rooting for Danish, and was slightly miffed when when the various (though interesting) African languages came up. Only for Danish to win in the overtime! Emotional rollercoaster!
I tried to learn Swedish as a teenager many years ago (from a book and tapes). I gave up after about 3 weeks. The spoken language bore no obvious resemblance to the written language I could figure out.
@@daveanderson8927 Makes sense, I do not really notice that as a native speaker, to me when I learned English it was much like your experience with Swedish :)
Was a bit afraid to see my mother tongue - Armenian or let's say Georgian in this video. They're isolates that are mutually unintelligible to any other language in the world AND have unique alphabets. But now I know that nothing can beat Danish
Well, this video is in Anglish (not to identify it specifically with a particular country) and we have comments from people from all over the world, so we know what the best international language is, if not the worst.
@@seneca983 I was still thinking about the oddity of how sentence and word structure seemed to change by changing another word in there. Basque is a strange and fun language to me.
Your take on Danish is gold 👌It's the only germanic language I don't especially appreciate for some reason, although let's be fair : English could have won that spot ;) (I'm a native French Québécois speaker, just to make clear that I'm not a Swede thrashing Danish lol ;p)
You should not show a St Georges flag for the English language. Although called English it has since the Angles first arrived in Britain also been spoken in Scotland, the southern portion of which was settled by them. "Anglish" would be a better term.
Nah, ya don’t get it. 😂😂😂 If the language is too hard, any neologisms and neogrammar would have to be so sensible to be understood it would shock the language into being the easiest language ever 📖 . You need balance to make the humans suffer as much as possible. 😂😂😂
Well English makes Honorable Mention, doesn't it? Not the language itself, it is what the users did and are doing to it. We are verbing nouns, giving names to groupings (a gaggle of geese and a murder of crows), the misspellings becoming standardized because there were no standard spellings until about the 19th century, and the written and spoken forms aren't aligned. Also the vocabulary is insane, as there are over 170,000 words in English , not including specific terms and words for specific trades and professions.
Words transcend parts of speech in basically all languages, collective nouns are also very common. They weren't mispellings, they were phonetic representations of how words were pronounced, and those word counts of languages are all bs
As an aglutinative as they come language user, yes, word counts are .....😶 Let's say the tickle me wrong hearing them. Because; While some of my languages suffixes and sometimes suffix combinations are words in their own right in other languages, [some of them words not having a meaning alone (obviously because they're Xfixes) by the way], but the word(sssss) I make with combining them aren't counted as "words". sure pals. And I don't only stack them together while forming words. Result is not a stack of words like a sentence but written without a space. they're their own creations. I harmonise the sounds of wowels to the root and then strengthen or soften the consonants in it to ease the use, and obey rules of adding like the placement and which fix to and not to include in stacking etc.... So, may I ask, if a language can make words on the go like that, why should it's core have a word count of an avarage word count of nonaglutinative ones(not that aglutinative I mean, as many have some scant at least aglutination I hear)? Even languages like Arabic counts their regularly formed versions of their roots as words. But we can't. Agreed, we too know that all words we form aren't themselves dictionary worthy/countable basically, and yes, such a combination dictionary would be uncarriable by muggle means and be beyond hell to read/search in. But I get frustrated hearing word counts nonetheless.
English spelling is ... difficult. The root cause is the great vowel shift, so all vowels are different from the other European languages. Well except French, ok, but that has has at least its own consistent system. The creative spelling printers from god knows where brought into the language do not make it easier. Verbing nouns is not a problem, all languages have ways to do that (if they have that difference). It is just the English shows way more flexibility than other languages in that regard.
Given the English MI5 language guide, it's probably Basque as it behaves differently than most languages in grammar. The form of the word can shift on you just based on another word in the sentence.
Hey, another language with different words and grammatical rules for dead animals! Let’s celebrate with a venison we hunted earlier. Or we can eat some veals.
Danish grammar isn't very difficult. But holy fuck, as a Norwegian speaker, Danish is extremely hard to understand for me. Reading it is a breeze though.
0:34 Using Livonian as an example is a bit in poor taste, as that language was largely wiped out by the Russians during the Soviet occupation of Latvia.
I feel like another language that would be a nightmare to use as the international language is Thai. Not only do they use one of the most complicated writing systems on Earth (2nd only to the Tibetan script), it's also a tonal language which can be hard for speakers of non-tonal languages to get used to (I speak Mandarin and Wu and even I fear Thai). The only redeeming quality Thai has is that the grammar isn't the most complicated thing to learn Maybe I'm biased bc I lowkey have PTSD from trying to learn the writing system but I also think Thai sounds exactly like a rac*st white person trying to mock how Chinese people speak and as a Chinese person it just feels like a personal attack 😤 (pls note that I'm being satyrical here)
English is the worst International Language. It is in Pole Position, only because in the 20th century, English became the language of the pop music industry, film , tv, CDs Video , and International Air travel It is also the 1st language in Britain, Canada,Australia, New Zealand ,and South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is the second language in many other countries. It is not even the best language to express thoughts, feelings and emotions, and is deficient in many important features , which are present in some other major languages. Had America voted for German instead of English to be the language used in America in about 1790,, we would all now be speaking German as our 1st or 2nd language. French would not be good because the language is kept in a fossilised condition , to keep it ""pure "" by the Academie Francaise. Chinese might tale over if it adopts the Latin Alphabet , instead of writing in symbols. Spanish may take over because of its growing numbers of speakers in the USA.People who speak English as their 1st language have become lazy about learning any other language . I speak English French and German , and can read Latin and Classical Greek but I am in a minority of English speakers who know any languages other than our own.
It's not true that English as a first language speakers are more lazy than other major language speakers at learning languages. France, Germany, Spain and Germany all have quite low proportions of foreign languages spoken and you have to take into account that people basically have to learn English for global communication, which boosts the numbers of non-English speaking countries and reduces those of natively English speaking countries. Also, English is an easier language to learn than German or French, due to its simple tense and case system and very loose grammar rules. In fact, if it were taught in the same manner as the other two it would probably be immensely easier to learn, but English teaching is not actually as developed as others due to such things as the loose grammar structure. The vocabulary of the English language also comes from a remarkably large group of languages, enabling those of Germanic, Romance and even Greek languages to have great advantages. Furthermore, English words have already permeated foreign languages, meaning that virtually no matter what language you speak you already have some sort of basis in the language. Now, for some of the ways in which English is better than Romance and Germanic languages: Looser sentence structure, No genders, No cases, Simple, straightforward tenses, Varied vocabulary base, Lower standard for fluency.
Y'all realize that in at least ONE alternate universe, Hadza, Ju|'hoan, and Danish are the most spoken languages on the planet. I er alle klar over, at i mindst ET alternativt univers er Hadza, Ju|'hoan og dansk de mest talte sprog på planeten.
The worst part of this is that Icelandic people are usually expected to learn another Nordic language, and Danish is the most common choice. In other words, Danish _technically is_ an international language!
dont icelandic people already speak danish?
@@moritzhexagon Icelandic and Danish are very different. That's like saying that English people already speak Dutch.
Denmark, Faeroe Islands, Greenland, plus one of the variants of Norwegian as I understand it is very similar to Danish, and its widely spoken in Iceland. So it seems to be fairly international.
@@daveanderson8927 Faeroe islands speak faeroese which is closer to icelandic and old norse
@@daveanderson8927 Which variants of Norwegian? Are you talking about one of our written languages perhaps?
This is a certified Danish moment.
danes be like huuughh hhhauuughhgghhhhjjjjeauugh
@@_peepee_ Danes be like
**Cthulu noises from the interdimensional portal**
@@FictionHubZADanes be like:
Æem spörking Ånglæs, bot wærdly dænish.
Surprised there wasn't a jibe about the worst possible international language being a creole of three different languages with the grammar of a fourth imposed arbitrarily a few hundred years ago; with spelling so inconsistent native speakers don't understand the rules; almost two entire separate vocabularies, one more 'high-class' than the other; and pitch and stress rules that aren't formalised and so can't be taught. But at least it doesn't have any accented characters. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to the café.
and don't forget naïve.
and coördinate
@@sigmaballsnetwork Only at the New Yorker
@@simonregan471 yeah but I use it because I want English to be as complex as humanly possible
Somebody ought to define the vocabulary of that abve-mentioned language. Out of a million possible words how many should be used for easy English, how many for advanced English and how many for excellent English? Simply because of that fact I gave up learning new words in English long ago. And some journal named "Spotlight" justifies its existence by always "delving" (another great word) into that impossible one-million word vocabulary.
Dude wtf livonian recognition. Respect 100%+
man if they had internet in Daneland they would be so upset at this video
This presumes that one is a Daneland-truther
I’m a dane and I would have been furious if I had the internet to watch this video.
As a dane i can confirm, if i was able to watch this video id be fuming
@@FallenDummy thank god you don't exist
We should all learn sentinelese and use it internationally
based
they can't arrow all of us
@@NLite486 let's both go there tomorrow
@@gavbidooof I'm already here, wya?
I wouldn’t really consider mandarin an International language. It is pretty much exclusively spoken by Han people or people in Han majority countries, and is the official language of only three countries, two of which claim to be the legitimate government of the same country and the third has a massive Han population.
I think the only true ‘global’ language is English at the moment. But the others he mentioned are very widespread in their regions, arabic being the Middle East, Spanish central/South America, French in Africa, and mandarin in Eastern Asia to an extent. I think you have to take into account the huge diaspora from all these languages too, they all have huge populations in countries where they’re minority.
That’s my grain of sand!
English is still an international language in Asia. It's not uncommon to see Chinese tourists speaking English in Thailand, etc. Of course, a Chinese dialect might be spoken at home as a family's heritage language and Mandarin is studied at school but when all else fails, folks will try English.
And even Chinese people usually don't know all the characters
@@frisianmouve True! It's kind of fun watching folks arguing about what radical to use in an obscure character. If they don't have anything to write on they'll start drawing in the air with their fingers. I guess the analogy is Europeans and Americans correcting each other's spelling in the comments.
@@rolinha1275much of the Chinese diaspora doesn't even speak Mandarin though, especially older immigrant families from Canton
No one here in Denmark understands our bizarre language anyway! We have this super cool and unique but also super gross sounding phonological feature, stød, and no one here even knows how gross and unique they are!
Anyway, rød grød med fløde! ❤️
Jeg tror ikke jeg kender nogen, som kan bruge "når" og "da" rigtigt
@@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770 AH HELL NAH 😭😂 that gibberish is a language 🤣
@@delinquente1444 wait Til you see dutch
Ni borde börja prata svenska istället. Det gick ju bra för skåningarna.
@@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770 Som udlænding har jeg altid lært, at man bruger "da" når det drejer sig om en handling i fortiden og "når" når det drejer sig om en gentagen handling. Is that right?Jeg bruger tit "da" i stedet for "fordi" ligesom man gør på tysk:-)
Being Polish I found Danish super-easy, barely an inconvenience
Damn I know esperanto's not great but i can't help but feel bad for it... i mean its heart was in the right place
It works fairly well as a European Interlingua, The distribution of the western European branch I think it’s pretty viable still
I'm crying how did I know EXACTLY what the final one was going to be
Despite the war, Russian still is more credible than Mandarin as a lingua franca. The whole former Soviet bloc is 12% of Earth, plus Eastern Europe.
It's also a very good example of hell too for learning at the same time.
Yeah, but most of that is Siberia where pretty much nobody lives. Also, Eastern Europe hates Russia (and who can blame them...).
I would disagree, since number of Russian speaker counting to max number is less than 300 million. That's only around 1/3 of low estimate for Mandarin.
@@Gareth1892000 Yes, but they're almost all Han Chinese in 3 countries. It's one group with a lot of members, not many groups.
@@smergthedargon8974 Even if they are in 1 country, there are more people speak Mandarin than 3 times Russian. This brings Mandarin as better lingua franca.
@@Gareth1892000 "Long Doan"
Hmmmmmm, this statement may be biased...
i think ainu would be the worst; theres only like 3 people who speak it fluently, large parts of the desendents from the culture dont like to admit it, the writing system they use wasn't made for their language so it's a mess, and to top it all off no other language is like it.
As a Dane, I wholeheartedly approve of this video.
Check out the Ket language, its from the middle of Siberia and its really cool. it doesnt stand out in comparison with these languages but its still really awesome
how about just following the worst conlang playlist, and then saying it's an auxiliary language?
When people ask me what my superpower is, one of those answer is: "I speak Danish." I think this video just gave me an extra level of coolness. Thanks! :)
On the other hand, Dutch is clearly the best international language
Hoera!
Gebaseerd
Gekoloniseerd poes
Specifically Jersey Dutch
Malay Archipelago 😟
The reveal of Danish at the end had me going "so true bestie" Danish really is just like that
As the Danish would say; Grøt grøt grøt grøtgrøt grøt grøt grøt grøt grøt.
The Danes have an annoying habit of putting News about their Royal Family , sand especially Crown Princess Mary , on the Internet ,only in Danish, when they can all speak English anyway. Norwegian and Swedish are the same language, written with slightly different spelling, They Norwegians and Swedes can understand written Danish , but not the spoken language. Even Crown Prince Frederik does not speak English as well sas he did, because he had to speak Danish even in his home to help his wife learn this difficult language.
My husband and I grew up in Cumberland , and spoke the local language , as well as speaking English . Its sounds are like Danish, but it is in fact like the Norse spoken in south east Norway. The population is relatively pure because until the roads out were improved 20 yearsago Cumbria was almost cut off from the main British road system and the rail system goes a long roundabout way along the coast . When we did his DNA it came out as 59% Norwegian , 22% Swedish, 18% Scottish , and only 1% English ( from his Great,grandmother) . Cumbrian should be the world language so that the Danes would not have to use English.
I was thinking of Tibetan because of the strange pronunciation system, but these African languages are clearly far more complex.
I think that we should just use Pre-Proto-Indo-European as T H E international language
Irmãos da lusofonia, unamo-nos e façamos do português o idioma supremo mais uma vez.
edit: anão vei era zoeira pqp KKKKKKKK
Mas não dá para unificarmos o Português sem estragar as variantes únicas
Mais uma vez? Quando que português foi idioma supremo?
@@tosch5274 El español fue lengua franca. Hermanos lusos.
se portugal fizer parte não vai ter graça já aviso
@@urieldaboamorte Não te preocupes, não queremos
Broadcast on all frequencies and in all known languages! (Including Welsh!)
It's very funny for an English speaker to call Danish a terrible language. It's a bit like a younger brother growing up, seeing his older brother has grown small and frail, then kicking him square in the balls.
In fairness- even the Danes admit their language is insanely difficult. Especially their numbering system.
as an american that can speak danish. i agree 100%
There was a girl in my high school who did a year abroad in Denmark (this was many years ago). I always found that an interesting choice.
I would have included other criteria in this list related to writing and reading. Arcane spelling irregularities, complex writing system, phonetic writing systems where the characters don't closely match the phonemes, difficult to render ....
English would be a contender because of our awful use of the Latin alphabet.
Thai might be on the list for its abugida which has similar issues to English, but primarily by retaining completely arcane superfluous characters from centuries earlier.
Japanese is notoriously difficult to learn because of it's writing systems.
Ancient Maya too. Those glyphs ... As challenging to learn as Egyptian hieroglyphs, but each glyph is even more complex.
You don't have to write to use a language though.
@@daveanderson8927 何
@@daveanderson8927 you have to write if you're learning it in school
Globalisation without language d3ath would be awesome!
If we all chose a language of interest to learn instead of only English as secondary.
Not everyone speaks English anyway.
No it wouldn't. In fact, one language but separate ethnic ancestrally based states with strong borders would be even better. We could still communicate online but stay in our own homelands.
@@daveanderson8927
I disagree.
1. Speaking a different language makes you think in a different way, and we always welcome new ideas.
2. Dangerous ideologies, that can spread fast, have difficulties spreading over to a population of another language.
3. Sometimes language is the only thing holding a culture (different from mainstream) together. Imagine a boring world where 7000+ cultures disappeared because someone wanted a global dominant language.
I like diversity and international cooperation, however recently I've realized that globalisation just seems to be a fancy word for global dominaton and contoll. A few ethnically mixed countries needs to exist in order to have peace, however if every country would be a English speaking mix ethnic group, the there is no reason to travel anymore is there?
the clip at the end is from this video: ruclips.net/video/s-mOy8VUEBk/видео.html
That's a great video.
Navajo is quite hard
All those are human languages anyway so they're pretty easy to learn because they have a common ancestor: the proto sapiens language 😎
Noam Chomsky moment
Ooga booga
Aight.
What abour Loj ban?
There's a video out there about a repetoire of signs that's common to apes across all species. If true, it's a remarkable finding. Communicating emotion goes back even deeper into the animal past and crosses many more species. The more primal the emotion, ie aggression and fear, the more universally understood it is. Representing abstract symbolic thought is a lot more complicated than communicating fear, obviously, but it's an ability that was built up from earlier communication strategies by natural selection. Our ability to exchange intellectual information positivity affects our ability to pass on genetic information. We might be seeing the next layer of information exchange strategies emerging at this moment in history with the creation of artificial AI personalities. Our ability to interact socially was at first constrained by proximity and time. Then came writing. Now we have computers but despite being linkex to the world, our monkey minds are still constrained by the speed of biological processes AIs can think at the speed of electricity and interact potentially with everyone online at a given moment. Someone is going to set one up as God or Jesus sometime soon and that's gonna be fun to watch.
Hissssss
Hahaha, came in to this video rooting for Danish, and was slightly miffed when when the various (though interesting) African languages came up. Only for Danish to win in the overtime! Emotional rollercoaster!
Let's revive a dead language and make it the lingua franca!
worked for Israel. And Catalonia (to a certain extent, yes I know it was never actually extinct).
Akkadian, you’re up!
Latin, obviously.
Ancient Egyptian.
As a Swede, I agree
I tried to learn Swedish as a teenager many years ago (from a book and tapes). I gave up after about 3 weeks. The spoken language bore no obvious resemblance to the written language I could figure out.
@@daveanderson8927 Makes sense, I do not really notice that as a native speaker, to me when I learned English it was much like your experience with Swedish :)
Never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with
- Current Danish student
esperanto: ha ha ha
Speaking of Livonian, I'd love to see it go through a revival process. It's a very underrated language and so is the culture to which it's connected
I think the language should have epiglottals, since like nobody can pronounce those
i can
Rad video. I love thinking about linguistics
Was a bit afraid to see my mother tongue - Armenian or let's say Georgian in this video. They're isolates that are mutually unintelligible to any other language in the world AND have unique alphabets. But now I know that nothing can beat Danish
Georgian is still king of the consonant clusters, at least!
4:20 *summons entire Esperantism community*
The Norwegians have never forgiven the Danes that in the 500 years the Danes ruled them they never once rebelled.
Lmao Esperanto at third place on the podium
English is the worst one, it would suck if that one was the world's lingua franca
The random roast on danish in the end 😭
Mandarin would be the worst "large language". It's already grasping at straws to call it an international language.
As a Swede I 100% agree with your conclusion
we also have different words for dead animals, we just call them meats ¿do you eat your beef alive?
0:37 YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
good job for citing your sources. here's a cookie 🍪
You are now a saint in Sweden.
So happy to see a video on international languages that doesn't scold English!
Well, this video is in Anglish (not to identify it specifically with a particular country) and we have comments from people from all over the world, so we know what the best international language is, if not the worst.
How about Albanian?
No. Basque
@@modmaker7617 Bruh, Basque doesn't even have split-ergativity (I think). :)
@@seneca983 Basque grammar on the other hand.
@@Eibarwoman What I mentioned is a part of the grammar.
@@seneca983 I was still thinking about the oddity of how sentence and word structure seemed to change by changing another word in there. Basque is a strange and fun language to me.
As a die-hard fan of Danish I feel betrayed.
Your take on Danish is gold 👌It's the only germanic language I don't especially appreciate for some reason, although let's be fair : English could have won that spot ;) (I'm a native French Québécois speaker, just to make clear that I'm not a Swede thrashing Danish lol ;p)
Livonia mentioned 💪 Love from lithuania braliukai
You should not show a St Georges flag for the English language. Although called English it has since the Angles first arrived in Britain also been spoken in Scotland, the southern portion of which was settled by them. "Anglish" would be a better term.
Nah, ya don’t get it. 😂😂😂
If the language is too hard, any neologisms and neogrammar would have to be so sensible to be understood it would shock the language into being the easiest language ever 📖 .
You need balance to make the humans suffer as much as possible. 😂😂😂
The worst international language would be french because we would all be speaking french. nightmare.
georgian, it's alone in its language family and isn't easy to learn from anyone
It's not alone in its family. Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz exist.
@@the_linguist_ll they are all part of the georgian ethnos
@@sakesaurus They're all seperate but related languages
@@the_linguist_ll whatever the case it's a relatively stranded family that has no ties to any other family, a group of languages unto itself
is there a language with no accented syllables
Yeah English
Well English makes Honorable Mention, doesn't it? Not the language itself, it is what the users did and are doing to it. We are verbing nouns, giving names to groupings (a gaggle of geese and a murder of crows), the misspellings becoming standardized because there were no standard spellings until about the 19th century, and the written and spoken forms aren't aligned. Also the vocabulary is insane, as there are over 170,000 words in English , not including specific terms and words for specific trades and professions.
Words transcend parts of speech in basically all languages, collective nouns are also very common. They weren't mispellings, they were phonetic representations of how words were pronounced, and those word counts of languages are all bs
Names to groupings are common at least in mandarin! It actually functions almost exactly the same way interestingly
As an aglutinative as they come language user, yes, word counts are .....😶 Let's say the tickle me wrong hearing them. Because;
While some of my languages suffixes and sometimes suffix combinations are words in their own right in other languages, [some of them words not having a meaning alone (obviously because they're Xfixes) by the way], but the word(sssss) I make with combining them aren't counted as "words". sure pals.
And I don't only stack them together while forming words. Result is not a stack of words like a sentence but written without a space. they're their own creations. I harmonise the sounds of wowels to the root and then strengthen or soften the consonants in it to ease the use, and obey rules of adding like the placement and which fix to and not to include in stacking etc....
So, may I ask, if a language can make words on the go like that, why should it's core have a word count of an avarage word count of nonaglutinative ones(not that aglutinative I mean, as many have some scant at least aglutination I hear)? Even languages like Arabic counts their regularly formed versions of their roots as words. But we can't.
Agreed, we too know that all words we form aren't themselves dictionary worthy/countable basically, and yes, such a combination dictionary would be uncarriable by muggle means and be beyond hell to read/search in. But I get frustrated hearing word counts nonetheless.
English spelling is ... difficult. The root cause is the great vowel shift, so all vowels are different from the other European languages. Well except French, ok, but that has has at least its own consistent system. The creative spelling printers from god knows where brought into the language do not make it easier.
Verbing nouns is not a problem, all languages have ways to do that (if they have that difference). It is just the English shows way more flexibility than other languages in that regard.
Idk why people say English is hard, as a japanese i learned English relatively much easier than French or German 😂
I can't tell if this voice is yours or is it a text-to-speech
This is proof that Norwegian should just replace Danish.
This is proof that danish is the superior north germanic language
I vote for swedish with a thick Gothenburg accent.
De e la ba å tjicka nåra lax te boen så kan de lära säj tala som räktit folk.
Norwegian is just German with a Swedish accent
I was so sure it was going to be English when it said islands.
Vi er nummer 1!!!!
Danmark nummer 1!!!
What about per continent? For Europe, I'm guessing Hungarian, Polish, or Basque.
Given the English MI5 language guide, it's probably Basque as it behaves differently than most languages in grammar. The form of the word can shift on you just based on another word in the sentence.
why dont they do more stuff like interlengua or MSA does, get closely related languages into one. slavics,, germanics,
Hey, another language with different words and grammatical rules for dead animals! Let’s celebrate with a venison we hunted earlier. Or we can eat some veals.
Ah... Danish.
Its people are known as the Latins of the North, but their language sure isn't.
- Your friendly neighborhood Swede.
North Senegal Island language
One word Archi
Danish grammar isn't very difficult. But holy fuck, as a Norwegian speaker, Danish is extremely hard to understand for me. Reading it is a breeze though.
YESSS DANISH SLANDER
How do you translate kamelåså into Taa?
is no one gonna talk about fr*nch (3:25)
what about ubykh 😳
It could become ubykhuitous.
Mandarin and other Chinese dialects is already very hard for most people.
Hmmm... I still think the number one worst possible auxiliary language would probably be kay(f)bop(t) though.
Eesti Keelt
Best international language.
gotta love a good danish bashinng moment
0:34 Using Livonian as an example is a bit in poor taste, as that language was largely wiped out by the Russians during the Soviet occupation of Latvia.
Ik leer Nederlands om Engels te doden. 🫡
Ich lerne deutsch um englisch zu töten
Die zwei sätze sehen sehr ähnlich aus und ich denke dass das cool ist
Some clicks sound easy but....
I feel like another language that would be a nightmare to use as the international language is Thai. Not only do they use one of the most complicated writing systems on Earth (2nd only to the Tibetan script), it's also a tonal language which can be hard for speakers of non-tonal languages to get used to (I speak Mandarin and Wu and even I fear Thai). The only redeeming quality Thai has is that the grammar isn't the most complicated thing to learn
Maybe I'm biased bc I lowkey have PTSD from trying to learn the writing system but I also think Thai sounds exactly like a rac*st white person trying to mock how Chinese people speak and as a Chinese person it just feels like a personal attack 😤 (pls note that I'm being satyrical here)
“Mandarin” ROC flag
ok take my like
English is the worst International Language. It is in Pole Position, only because in the 20th century, English became the language of the pop music industry, film , tv, CDs Video , and International Air travel It is also the 1st language in Britain, Canada,Australia, New Zealand ,and South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is the second language in many other countries.
It is not even the best language to express thoughts, feelings and emotions, and is deficient in many important features , which are present in some other major languages. Had America voted for German instead of English to be the language used in America in about 1790,, we would all now be speaking German as our 1st or 2nd language. French would not be good because the language is kept in a fossilised condition , to keep it ""pure "" by the Academie Francaise. Chinese might tale over if it adopts the Latin Alphabet , instead of writing in symbols. Spanish may take over because of its growing numbers of speakers in the USA.People who speak English as their 1st language have become lazy about learning any other language . I speak English French and German , and can read Latin and Classical Greek but I am in a minority of English speakers who know any languages other than our own.
Nice points
It's not true that English as a first language speakers are more lazy than other major language speakers at learning languages. France, Germany, Spain and Germany all have quite low proportions of foreign languages spoken and you have to take into account that people basically have to learn English for global communication, which boosts the numbers of non-English speaking countries and reduces those of natively English speaking countries. Also, English is an easier language to learn than German or French, due to its simple tense and case system and very loose grammar rules. In fact, if it were taught in the same manner as the other two it would probably be immensely easier to learn, but English teaching is not actually as developed as others due to such things as the loose grammar structure. The vocabulary of the English language also comes from a remarkably large group of languages, enabling those of Germanic, Romance and even Greek languages to have great advantages. Furthermore, English words have already permeated foreign languages, meaning that virtually no matter what language you speak you already have some sort of basis in the language.
Now, for some of the ways in which English is better than Romance and Germanic languages:
Looser sentence structure,
No genders,
No cases,
Simple, straightforward tenses,
Varied vocabulary base,
Lower standard for fluency.
Y'all realize that in at least ONE alternate universe, Hadza, Ju|'hoan, and Danish are the most spoken languages on the planet.
I er alle klar over, at i mindst ET alternativt univers er Hadza, Ju|'hoan og dansk de mest talte sprog på planeten.
0:36 SIMMMMM
2:12 Dio?
0:40 i understood that reference
Prescriptivism as something bad, ahh. :'-) In Poland it is still a norm….
i dobrze
@@MrZylak I bardzo źle.
@@MrZylak No
and we complain about french
All of them except English.
BAGUETTE 🥖🥖🥖CROISSANT🥐🥐🥐
almost seems like satire....
gLoBaLiSaTiOn
Too many Eurocentric people here ... I would nominate Albanian or Georgian.
As a Swede this video is based