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> English is the simplest Latin based language. It's not a Latin-based language (French, Italian, Spanish etc are Latin-based languages). It's not clear how y
by maest 4y ago
> English is the simplest Latin based language.
It's not a Latin-based language (French, Italian, Spanish etc are Latin-based languages).
It's not clear how you measure simplicity, but, in terms of phonetics, English is quite the nightmare as the link between the spelling and the pronunciation is often determined by the history of the word, rather than by a clear set of phonetical rules.
So, at least by that measure, English is far from being the simplest.
- hulitu 4y ago> It's not clear how you measure simplicity Compared with other european languages the english grammar is much simpler and the number of words needed to communicate is also not so high.
- levleontiev 4y agoCompared with German, it's complicated. German has only "Past Perfect" and "Past simple" tenses. English has at least 4.