2006-07-27 00:39:15 · 15 answers · asked by Nomad 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Officially, the youngest language in the world is Afrikaans. By the early-20th century Afrikaans had developed from Dutch, French and other influences into a fully fledged language with its own dictionary.
2006-07-27 03:16:58 · answer #1 · answered by Viviana DanielaD 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If we assume that you are speaking of normal, human languages, than you can either say Esperanto, or nothing. Esperanto is an invented language that was introduced in 1887 by a European philologist. It has some international recognition, and there are currently somewhere between 100,000 and 2 million speakers, but probably only 1,000 or so native speakers.
Other than that, languages seem to go way back. They heavily influence each other as well, so the division between them is significantly arbitrary. Before the advent of mass/rapid communication and dictionaries, there was huge variation even within a single language. Where does Old English stop and Middle English begin? There's an academically recognized division somewhere in there, but people who lived ten years in either direction would still have been able to understand each other perfectly well.
Similar things can be said of French and Italian. Initially, they were simply local dialects of Latin, but given a few centuries of incubation, you get two distinct languages. French itself has several recognized variants.
I'm not sure your question has an answer in the form you're looking for.
2006-07-27 00:49:42 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All languages are equally young since each new generation changes its language from the preceding generation. All languages are constantly evolving.
Now, if you are asking which language came into being without being evolved from an ancestor language, that would be a creole language. Creole languages are "created" by mixing pieces of different languages in a multilingual setting and then becoming someone's native language. There are many creole languages in the world. The one that has most recently achieved native speakers is Tok Pisin of New Guinea, also called Neo-Melanesian. It first started having its own native speakers in the 1970s.
2006-07-27 08:23:42 · answer #3 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interlingua - Created by International Auxiliary Language Association (1951)
2006-07-27 00:56:32 · answer #4 · answered by Handsome 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The new global translation used to be translated via five guys and just one had a few school coaching, three had no longer graduated from top tuition and none have been Bible students. It is rumored that one used to be a spirit medium. What do you suppose? The phrases were altered to compare the cults misguided teachings that experience certainly not come precise. The NIV used to be translated via one hundred guys from quite a lot of religions they usually have been Bible students.
2016-08-28 17:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Nicaraguan Sign Language (or ISN, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua or Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense) is a signed language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s."
2006-07-27 01:33:18 · answer #6 · answered by Kookiemon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's probably International Sign Language for the deaf, a.k.a. Gestuno. It was standardized in 1973.
2006-07-27 01:11:13 · answer #7 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Esperanto
2006-07-27 00:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by Sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moldovan. It's just repackaged Romanian.
2006-07-27 12:44:42 · answer #9 · answered by KFIfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-27 11:19:31 · answer #10 · answered by Feathers-n-Lace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋