Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

Edit:

We have 8 billion people, yet the best we could muster for the most total speakers of a language is under 2 billion, including non-natives…

  1. English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million Total speakers: 1.4+ billion According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers.

https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world#:~:text=1.,English (1%2C452 million speakers)&text=According to Ethnologue%2C English is,native and non-native speakers.

    • Tacostrange@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Maybe it’s Interlingua. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua Most people who speak a latin based language already understand interlingua. That would be the best chance of getting a majority of the world on the same language. It would include a big part of Europe, all of South and Central America and half of North America

      • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Interlingua: Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,

        Esperanto: Nian panon ĉiutagan donu al ni hodiaŭ

        English: Give us this day our daily bread;

        We have our choice between Spanish Latin, Romanian Latin, or super complicated Latin that contradicts itself and absorbed things from everywhere at random.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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          6 months ago

          or super complicated Latin that contradicts itself and absorbed things from everywhere at random.

          English borrowed a shit tonne from Latin & Romance languages, but it is at its core a Germanic language.

          To make a joke that still sticks with the facts, maybe something like “wannabe Latin”, or “that shitty Romeaboo language”.