2007-01-06 15:37:44 · 15 answers · asked by pulikeshi k 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
All languages have many words
2007-01-06 15:39:34 · answer #1 · answered by devora k 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Wordick language
2007-01-06 23:49:47 · answer #2 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
English has the most words of any modern languages. Many claim that this means it has a higher specificity for labeling the world around us with the flavor we want. (Actually, Punjabi is very similar to English in distribution, and may have more words because of its widespread geographical distribution and borrowing from English.)
English has more than twice that of French, and more than three times that of Russian. However, these languages can often use several words to code for one concept, and may eliminate some unnecessary repeats of words with the same definition that we have in English.
Which is preferable? Who knows. Some bilingual people find that sometimes it is easier to express an idea in one language than another. For this, you may want to look into the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
However, many Native American languages have smaller units of meaning than English, which are strewn together to describe and explain new concepts, experiences, and objects. One might say that while these languages have few actual words, they have a great potential for explaining the world around them.
2007-01-07 01:19:37 · answer #3 · answered by ndrw3987 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English has the most written words in the world of languages. Languages such has Sanskrit and Hebrew tend to among the oldest and in Chinese there are thousands upon thousands of characters many have2 to 3 different readings. and the Japanese have 3 alphabets. Hiragana for Japanese words, Kanji for Chinese based words and Katakana for foreign words.
2007-01-09 09:37:48 · answer #4 · answered by Qwerty_Monster_Munch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
commonly in India there are many languages spoken. Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi, and many more. the language having lot of words is Sindhi
2007-01-06 23:55:02 · answer #5 · answered by ron 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all languages have many words. languages like european,sanskrit,english etc
2007-01-07 00:02:42 · answer #6 · answered by bdbest_shyam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient Greek had a ton of words, many times that of Latin.
2007-01-06 23:46:54 · answer #7 · answered by Ginger P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it's Sanskrit language bcoz it is known as the mother of all languages.
2007-01-07 00:15:25 · answer #8 · answered by sweetu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English has the most words.It is made up of many languages.<><
2007-01-06 23:40:40 · answer #9 · answered by funnana 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm pretty sure English has the most words ever i think its up to over a million........yeah over a million words....that's ridiculous.
2007-01-06 23:46:26 · answer #10 · answered by adam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋