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Clearly this isn't intended as a serious way of "ranking" languages, but I wish there was a way to measure the "efficiency" of languages from the same geographi
by ahmedfromtunis 5y ago
Clearly this isn't intended as a serious way of "ranking" languages, but I wish there was a way to measure the "efficiency" of languages from the same geographic setup (and, preferably, family) but in different time periods, e.g. Akkadian vs. Babylonian vs. early Hebrew vs. early Arabic.
One would expect the efficiency to improve over time, but maybe this is not true.
Is there anything in this topic that one can read?
- zeroimpl 5y agoI’m also curious how modern languages compare to older variants. Even modern English to Shakespeare stuff. I think to measure efficiency of a written language, you’d have to time how long it takes people to read it (and correctly answer some questions to prove they understood it).