Which language has the most complex grammar in the world?

Question

Please quote your sources.

I'm speaking about grammar, not about pronounce (writing/phonetics) nor about overall difficulty

(I know, it's difficult to tell)

Paladin,
I tough that Finnish cases are simple popstpositions, not real cases. (Just the same as preposition, but put after the word).
And which cases exist in English (except in some pronouns or the " 's ")?

Katey, pirate grrrammar is actually very simple. Idioms make it difficult ;)

Paladin, thank you for your reply!

Allforasia, Portoguese has a morphological structure very similiar to other romance language: nouns distinguish number and gender.
Cases (= nouns inflection to indicate their grammatical function) are in some pronouns only.
It's not much more complex than Italian or Spanish
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Portuguese/Grammar/Portuguese-Noun.html
Can you provide me some sources?
Which languages do you know?
German has a very much complex nouns system:
- gender: you ha ve to learn gender of each word; no general rule to tell difference
- number: various pattern to form plural
- 4 cases (for articles, nouns,adjective): nom, gen, acc, dat

Answer 1

It's Arabic dude.
Arabic is damn crazy when it comes to Grammar. Actually nobody knows, I am Arab, how to stick to the rules of grammar.
I read newspapers alot and often times, you see someone correcting some mistakes in this paper. And then the writer would thank him and correct a mistake in his message, and then the reader responds again. And I am like" What the heck are you talking about"
We have someone who works as Language editor. His job is to correct the language and the Grammar.
Just to give you a hint. The pronunciation of words changes according to their position in the sentence. If a certain word is subject, then the ending would be pronounced differently if it is an object...
And so on.........

Answer 2

English is spoken via many by way of out the sector. But talking English thoroughly is best performed whilst one speaks English with different English individuals regularly. It alterations and evolves always and anybody who speaks English as a primary language can inform if anyone has grown up talking whatever rather than English. This isn't to mention that it are not able to be discovered thoroughly, best that it's elaborate to the factor wherein it is extremely obvious whilst it's not spoken in a traditional structure.

Answer 3

I have studied 7 languages and Portuguese is the hardest. They have several different cases and forms for the nouns, pronouns and adjectives, and they all change depending on the case. It is harder than Russian, and all all other European languages.
Now I am studying Mandarin which has the simplest grammar. Actually, there is almost no grammar. They don't change verbs into different tenses or change nouns to be plural.

Answer 4

Arabic

Answer 5

Pirate Gramarrrr is de ardest aharrr

Ear isome examples aharrr

I love th' smell o' cannonfire in th' mornin'! Smells like victarry! Gar har har!
Who lives in a pineapple unner th' sea?
Arrr! Enough be enough! I grow tired o' these mothr' ******' snakes on this mothr' ******' ship! Arr...
Ahoy, me eyepatch needs fabric softenarrrr!
Yarr, Mr. De Mille, I be ready fer me close-up!
Here's lookin' at ye, lad.
My motharr always said, life is like a box o' oranges. Ne'er know when yer gonna get scurvy.
Yer motharr was a hamstarr an' yer fatharrr smelt o' elderberries!
My harrrt will go on!
Soylent Hardtack be weevils!
Is tha' yer final answarrrr?
They call me Cappn' Tibbs!
Think not o' what yeh can do fer yer country, but what yeh can do fer yer capp'n.
D'ye feel lucky, lubber?
All yer booty are belong ter us!
Yer gonna need a biggarr boat!
A port surveyor once tried ter tax me. I ate his livarr with some maggoty cheese an' a bottle o' rum.
R....osebud...
Heeeeere's Blackbeard!
Yar har kay yay, motharrfuckarrrr!
E'ery time yeh hear a bell ring, it means a Spanish galleon jus' got blown ter smitharreens.
Yar, I wish I knew how ter quit yeh.

Answer 6

Arabic

Answer 7

The two people who said "Finnish" have a point. However, the most complicated and confusing languages in the world which I have read about are probably the little known languages of the Caucasian region of southern Russia: Georgian, Abkhazian, Circassian, Chechen, Ingush etc. Nothing really tops them.

Answer 8

Finnish, actually, is a very good candidate as it has 14 or 15 cases of nouns. (English has 4.) Another is Navajo, which has notoriously complex verbs.

In answer to your follow-up:
Case marking in Finnish does take the form of postpositions, but categorization is difficult as it requires finer distinctions, not to mention mismatched theta roles. For more specific info, check out this website:

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/finnish-cases.html

English cases are nominative/subjective (e.g., I), genitive (e.g., my, mine), reflexive (e.g., myself), and accusative/objective (e.g., me). Yes, only marked in pronouns, but that makes Finnish all the harder!

Answer 9

It's definitely Arabic.

Answer 10

I hear Ethipian is quite difficult to learn, but I am not sure it's because of the grammar.

I also heard, from friends who speak it, that Arabic is relatively easy.