With automated translation and the general availability giant corpuses of English text, it strikes me that at the very least a partial ordering can be imposed o

With automated translation and the general availability giant corpuses of English text, it strikes me that at the very least a partial ordering can be imposed on the set of languages. As in: to compare two languages A and B, translate large English corpus to A, then to B, then compare sizes. Ta-da. And if actual speed is really what matters, feed results in some speech-to-text algorithm and clock the output.