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Old 31st January 2004, 14:48
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Re: Questions and Answers of Mondlango

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Originally posted by floro

1.What will the world be like when all people speak the same language?
We are not proposing a single language, we are proposing that people adopt a second language. Which means we won't have to learn three, four or more languages. We'll simply learn the International language which will be the common language, the real bridge for people of different countries. People would only have to learn the international language apart from their own native languages. As a consequence, less prominent languages, whose limited reach might lead to their disappearance, would be saved from extinction.

2.A country where the percentage of people understanding English is high, is more modernized. Is this true?
No! Some countries, such as India, Pakistan, and Nigeria , as former colonies of UK , use English as their official language, but they aren't highly modernized. On the other hand, Japan, Germany , and Sweden , which do not use English as official language, are highly modernized.
3.But isn't Mondlango an artificial language?
Of course it is. So is every language in the world. The word "artificial" means "made by human beingsˇ±, and every language has been created by human beings. The difference between national and artificial languages is that a national language is not made scientifically , but has many irregularities and unreasonable factors, whereas an artificial language is constructed systematically and scientifically, absorbing the good points and removing the shortcomings of national languages. In fact, Indonesian is a constructed language made by a Dutch missionary in the 1920s on the basis of synthesizing some local languages. Now this language has become the national language of Indonesia , used by more than one hundred million people. Mondlango is constructed also by synthesizing Indo-European languages such as English, French, Spanish , etc.

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I am sorry but the difference between national and artifical languges is not that a language is made "more scientifically." The difference is that a national language that has a dictionary and a grammar has been planned, often with a lot of care as in The Spanish Academy. People that use Spanish will argue about their way of saying things, and there will be much debate about the difference between cacahuate and mani. There is a lot of political exchange on which one is correct and who choses to use which one.

All language is natural first. It is the oral tradition.
There are many official languages in the UN, why add one more?

Yautia
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