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| Cyrus Diglot Newbie France Joined 5508 days ago 39 posts - 70 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 26 of 40 22 March 2010 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| spanishlearner Groupie France Joined 5454 days ago 51 posts - 81 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 27 of 40 22 March 2010 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In my opinion there are only eight languages which can claim universal importance:
French English German Latin Ancient Greek Arabic Sanskrit Classical Chinese 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6294 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 28 of 40 22 March 2010 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
Bloomberg. Sorry about that. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cyrus Diglot Newbie France Joined 5508 days ago 39 posts - 70 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 29 of 40 23 March 2010 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
Those are all languages of religion and philosophy^^ (I think you can add hebrew, no ?) However I think you do not formulate it well, especially as regards to the word "importance". What does this word mean ? In fact, it is not those languages themselves which are "important", but the culture they carry, and the word "important" means here that this culture have had (and have still) an influence particularly important on the others culture. However that does not denote necessarily a superiority of the culture, let alone the language which carried it, because the life and death of a culture are too often determined by history, war, etc, and not by its value (it is often right, but not always, I agree : jewish culture, for example, has something specific which has triumphed over the "rules" of History, and survived despite the ebbs and (above all) flows of its history).
No problems :) Edited by Cyrus on 23 March 2010 at 8:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| spanishlearner Groupie France Joined 5454 days ago 51 posts - 81 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 30 of 40 23 March 2010 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
I did not add Hebrew (nor Pali) precisely because its relevance is mainly restricted to a single dimension: religion. The other languages I mention have given voice to the broadest possible range of human experience, along with being the carriers of the world's great traditions. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| WortDrauf Already banned: zarathustra, lifelover Newbie Canada Joined 5395 days ago 23 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 31 of 40 23 March 2010 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's not subjective at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vikramkr Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6069 days ago 248 posts - 326 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese | Message 32 of 40 24 March 2010 at 2:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think Mandarin is a universally important language. It's honestly only important in one country of the
world. In my opinion, the most universally important languages are English, French, and Spanish, as all these languages are geographically and culturally widespread, and have many speakers. Edited by vikramkr on 24 March 2010 at 2:55am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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