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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

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We have 8 billion people, yet the best we could muster for the most total speakers of a language is under 2 billion, including non-natives...

  1. English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million Total speakers: 1.4+ billion According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers.

https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world#:~:text=1.,English%20(1%2C452%20million%20speakers)&text=According%20to%20Ethnologue%2C%20English%20is,native%20and%20non%2Dnative%20speakers.

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[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago

Correct reasoning, incorrect facts.

46% of the world speak Indo-European languages as a mother tongue.

Can't do better than that. No other option comes close.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Aren't you Irish? You know the English colonizers did their best to wipe out the Irish language and replace it with the one you're advocating for right???

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

know the English colonizers did .... right???

Nooo I didn't actually know that and needed an enlightened person such as yourself to tell me 🙄🙄

Tá mé tinn de bheith ag glacadh comhairle stráinséara. Imagine some blan started lecturing you about haitian history and how it should affect your opinions, wouldn't you at least tell them to fuck off?

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Kind of wild that you use Haiti as an example here, considering the european genocide of the Taino people, as well as the european importation of african slaves, two groups that didn't speak european languages, and had their languages erased by the same process you're advocating for.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago
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