Language situation anno 2008

The way I see it you have today the following language situation worldwide:


people (should) know

the local language, English as the world language and one of the other main communication languages:
French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese,  Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish and maybe also Italian, Korean, Dutch or Polish.

I'm in doubt about Indonesian, though I've recently heard that Indonesia has the fourth most dense population in the world, I think that it remains a local language and that English is used by the people doing business over there... (not sure).

Pieter Jansegers




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Bill Chapman
[this is good]

You didn't mention the role of Esperanto. Is this an oversight? There are even Esperanto speakers in Belgium. Anyway, take a look at www.esperanto.net What do you think?

jansegers
My excuses to have forgotten to mention dr. Zamenhof artificial international language, but my scoop was only the natural languages.

I'm receiving on a daily basis an esperanto word thanks to http://lernu.com

But I have to say I do prefer IDO like I find saying "patrino" to my mum not natural and the diachronical sign above consonants disturbing ( or beter: all of the several ways around it, like spelling mangxi ).

The latest artificial language that's really quite close to the basis of all semantic primes is Toki Pona ( the language of good ) with only 118 words.

I believe it to be extremely interesting for AI and the Semantic Web...

For AI because it's a language placed in the deitic situation enabling people to express all their needs and feelings.

For the Semantic Web because it simplifies to semantic content of a message to core meaning of it.

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