Which language do you think is the most logically organized?

Question

Why? Examples?

I'm partial to Spanish: there are relatively few irregular verbs and the word order makes sense to me. Sometimes the subjunctive confuses me, but it's not too bad.

I think Latin has its merits in this department, but I'm biased against it, so I'm not going to say Latin.

(And no, I'm not entirely sure what I mean by "logically organized" either... :) Just put which language makes the most sense to you, I suppose. )

Oh, yeah, I completely forgot that there are no "pronunciation surprises" in Spanish.

Yes, artificial languages are allowed (but I think computer languages would probably have to win by default, so let's stick with spoken/signed languages).

Answer 1

Something in which English is more logical than Spanish is in sentences like:

"I have nothing".

That in Spanish would be:

"No tengo nada" (with a double negative).

In this kind of things, I find Germanic languages (not only English, but also German) more logical than Latin languages (not only Spanish, but also French, Italian, Portuguese or Catalan, to mention a few examples).

Answer 2

good question but equally difficult to answer as one needs to know the grammar and syntax of almost every language to answer this. let's try it out this way. the easiest language has the maximum number of speakers but chinese is not understood by people aorund the world while english does. reason?? english people ruled around the world and made their language popular. languages that are extinct like "sanskrit" are so because they were tough to follow but was a really organized language. so a language should be easy to follow and use. spanish is good and easy because u dont have pronounciation restrictions as in french. to conclude, one must know at least two out of the most widely spoken languages.

Answer 3

I think Spanish is as well. No silent letters and everything follows a particular speach pattern. English is the hardest. God Bless the learners of English as a 2nd language.

Answer 4

Well I would say Esperanto if artificial languages are allowed.
The pronunciation is totally clear, and the conjugation can't be easier. The vocabulary is easy if you know a latin language.

Here a link:

http://www.esperanto.net/info/index_en.html

Answer 5

Esperanto

since this was a language created logically in order to be a world language

Answer 6

I think sign language is pretty logical. They don't use words like the, a, it, etc. They just use signs to represent the words they need to express. Their grammar consists of hand movements, facial expressions, sign locations, etc. The word order makes sense too.

Answer 7

I don't think of language as being 'logical', but I only speak English and Spanish fluently.

Answer 8

German, six ways to conjugate everything.

I speak five languages (Afrikaans, German, Dutch, English and Mandarin Chinese) and German is the most tidy and organized.

Of course, Chinese has no grammar structure or prepositions, so you might consider it the least complex. Its just loads of vocabulary.

Answer 9

I totally agree with the person who mentioned Lojban. But Lojban being a logical language, doesn't mean that it is easy to learn.
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Home+Page&bl

Answer 10

I think also Spanish and French, but maybe, because I'm native speaker of Spanish, and it's more logic for me...