It has to be an official language, and verbally spoken.
10 points to whoever gets it right first!
2006-12-05 07:10:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Afrikaans
2006-12-05 08:16:37 · answer #1 · answered by Jagg 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously you have a wrong answer in mind already and you will reward whoever gives you that wrong answer first. All languages are equally "young" since all languages are constantly changing. Usually it takes about 500 years for two dialects to change to the point that they are generally incomprehensible to one another. Depending on circumstances, that number can be reduced. Comanche and Shoshoni have been separated for just 300 years, but because of the geographical separation between them and a couple of sound changes in Comanche, they are separate languages now and speakers of each of them can no longer understand one another. So that is the accurate, correct, scientifically verifiable answer--that all modern languages are of equal age. Go ahead and reward the incorrect answer that you think is right ;)
2006-12-05 18:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by Taivo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Afrikaans
2006-12-05 20:20:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Croatian might be the newest "official language", though it's no younger than any other language.
2006-12-05 15:39:35 · answer #4 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Esperanto, it's a constructed language made in 1887.
Or it might be Klingon. Who knows?
2006-12-05 15:14:50 · answer #5 · answered by Jerse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern Hebrew: it had been a 'dead' language for thousands of years, then was revived 50 years ago.
2006-12-05 15:30:13 · answer #6 · answered by J9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bahasa Melayu...maybe
Its very dynamic
2006-12-05 16:43:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋