is a UNIVERSAL language possible?

Question

...universal which means everything and everyone is taken into consideration.

Answer 1

You'd get a lot of loooooooove for you answer. Good luck.

Answer 2

It does seem like a good idea on paper, but it probably would not work. First, it would evolve, constantly. Every year, every country would invent new words for it and no other country would understand. It would also involve into different dialects, like British English/American English/Australian English. They all speak English, but quite differently, like they have different words for the same thing sometimes.

Also, technology might not get to some parts of the world, maybe in the poorest corner of Africa, etc so not everybody would be able to learn it. Plus, I would think it might be hard to find somebody that speaks this universal lanuage well enough and also another language, if they were to teach others this language. There would be so many people that had to be fluent in the languages in the world already and additionally learn this language to teach others, if that makes sense.

The way the world works now, some countries loathe other countries so I doubt people would reach an agreement to learn/create the language.

Another problem might be that this language would have to be similar to one language, like English, as opposed to Japanese or Chinese, which use characters instead of letters. To English speakers, it would be easier to learn, because they are used to having alphabets and putting together letters to make words, but for the Chinese, it would be very different, from writing characters the whole time. It would be quite hard for a group of people to learn.

Sometimes, the thought of this would be nice, but if it really happened, the world would definitely loose some of the beauty of different languages being spoken.

Hope this helped!

Answer 3

Nothing original in this reply, just confirming. Music and math are universal (a melody is a melody anywhere & 1+1=2 works too).
While numbers can be expressed in various forms, written music should be a constant language.
The smile bit is accurate as well with in the majority of humanity.
The fact that there is not one common universal language puts many of the creator theories in question.
Glad to see a curious and inquisitive person.
Thank you.

Answer 4

Unlikely. And if a language were to be adopted universally, as soon as everybody has adopted it, it would split into regional dialects, at first easily understood among themselves but gradually becoming independent languages.

Just think of Australia: some people from the interior speak with such accents they are nearly impossible to understand for people from England or the USA, and they use a lot of vernacular words that lack meaning anywhere else.

Answer 5

no,................because languages are constantly envoling to suit local cultures, sub cultures and conditions, English may be the closest thing we have to a universal language but just look at the difference in dialects. In the USA you can hear where people are from, or look at the differences between Australian English and New Zealand English, let alone Scots and Cockney. Listen to the Engliah spoken in India and anywhere else english is spoken, almost a different language.

Answer 6

According to the Bible there was a universal language. Then God confused their language at the Tower of Babel and then spread them around the planet. At least that is what the Bible says.

Answer 7

No. Because language is shaped by our perceptions and experiences. To me a water pipe, caries water in my house to the faucet. I mentioned water pipe to a friend and to him it was a water bong for drug use. We're both Americans from the mid-west. If we can't speak the same language and understand each other. How can we every find a universal basis to build off of?

Answer 8

I suggest if you want you can read this book, you may think it is bull but after reading all of your questions will be answered.
http://www.rael.org/download.php?view.1
We are one nation, we flow from a pond. Making many rivers.
If only we could go back to the time when we were a pond, when we all spook the same language.
If you do read the book i would like to know what you thought.
Cuz maybe i am crazy...yet should i believe in god i can not see, when all the facts are there.

Answer 9

several have been attempted such as Esperanto.

Esperanto was a mix of the basic romance languages and was designed to be simple and easy to use. Supposing everyone would try to learn it, it would be possible. but few people would put forth the effort. you know you wold get deeply religious babbling about the tower of Babel and there would be contreversy and ultimatly it would fade and fail

Answer 10

Mathematics says that the answer is no.
Basically every language that can describe natural numbers will have statements that are neither true nor false.
So language is a pretty limited tool.

Answer 11

The universal language will most likely be that which is most used throught the economic sector. So technically there already is one, and it's english...