What if there's only one language in the world?

Its not only impossible, but its against the very tendency of geography itself. Different languages have evolved on account of the scattered population on this huge earth, the different climatic conditions and different natural vegetations. Even if it so happens that the language of the whole world is set to one, gradually over a period of time groups over geographical regions will again have the language evolved in different languages and will eventually have several hundred languages.

One language for the entire World !!!! That’s a great thought and very thought itself feel very good for me. I can travel to any part of the world without worrying about the language problems. People can easily understand the other people in different parts of the world. Communication is the best solution for every problem. When communication improves with the common languages, I believe every worldly problem can be solved.

This was suggested by L L Zamenhof, who spent decades trying to create a language which would be pronouncable by all cultures. The result was Esperanto, which is probably only spoken by a couple of thousand people across the globe. The practical use of a universal language is obvious, but it would be difficult to persuade people to dismiss their own language and therefore part of their culture.

While that would be "convenient" I agree with an above poster that it would be boring. I love hearing other languages. Making everyone speak the same language would be like making everyone believe the same religion or have the same opinions. It takes away people's culture, heritige, and upbringing. Why on earth would anyone want to turn this diverse world into a planet full of people that were all the same?

Yes i do feel more or less the same, its really good if there is only one language globally where in everyone can communicate easily no matter where ever they are...

I disagree I think we need diversity in the world even with language. We are all different and need to keep our heritage and our roots alive one way of doing that is by keeping our language. The world is to big a place to have one language even if we all spoke one language there would be different diaglects depending upon what part of the world people came from.

Yeah it would be a whole lot easier if everyone in the world spoke just one language. I know only English and a little bit of Spainish.

Yes. You are right. It would have stopped lot of fights and violence. And also it would have been a single country around the globe

Even if we all spoke the same language, we would still need translators because each region would have their own take on the language. Like here in the States, we all speak American English but it is different in each State. We use the same words but their meaning varies.

This is a very worthwhile point --I agree totally, but it would have to be a new language for everyone, otherwise we'd be fighting over whose to use, lol. Maybe we could start slow with small children in school... kind of like how they want to integrate the metric system... and that hasn't totally happened either.

That sound good but can't . The fact is that all the knowledges are in the same such as the math ,the chemical ,the physics and so on just in different language . I admire the first people who translate the different language ,they are great man .

I have mixed feelings on this. It would be a lot easier if the world only had one language. Language barriers can be so hard to deal with. The downfall is that there are some languages that are so beautiful to listen to when someone speaks them. It is what makes us all unique. I'm torn on this one.

It would have been a very excellent thing if there was only one language in the world. However, it seem there are a lot of languages in the world and even in particular countries and regions, they may have many languages spoken there. But the good thing about many of these places is there is always a common language that is shared by all so they can communicate with each other. I used top think Indians had one language they all spoke from watching some of there movies, but I found that that was not true.

i have thought the same thing. sometimes i wish i knew every language or ofcousre we all had the same. i dont know it could change alot of things for better or worse. i guess since we have different ones we better be glad we do have translaters. lol.

i agree with you somewhat, that having one common global language would be so much more convenient and efficient, but what i really appreciate about the many languages we have all over the world today is the rich cultural diversity it provides

it would be boring, i guess. i read the blog and yes sometimes it would be hard to understand and communicate your point to others. it also goes with the culture. let's say we all speak english. but we speak it differently. we have different points. so i think we can never really come up with one common way of communicating. for us, for example, silence is okay. silence means yes. for others, it would seem rude that a person replies with silence.

But there is so much culture in languages. and when those languages are lost, so is that richness. It's our differences that make us all unique. And diversity is a good thing. So do you want us all to have the same skin and hair color, because there is so much wasted in developing clothing, make-up and jewelry to enhance skin and hair tones of all colors? Besides, there is nothing wrong with providing EDUCATION to those who need it - and providing jobs for people with those skills. If you truly think translation is a wasteful talent - I suggest you start looking at more definitive wastes in your own life. Do you drive to work or school, or do you walk? Do you eat prepackaged meals and throw away the containers, or do you eat fresh produce (grown locally) and compost the materials you don't eat? You could spend a lot more effort that will actually make a difference in reducing waste in your life than worrying about languages. Language creates culture, diversity and beauty.

Then life would be way easier for me compared to how thigns are now. Frankly seaking, the only language that i know completely is English! Then i know how to talk in malayalam but not to read and write, i know how to read and write hindi, but i don't understand it, i knwo to read and write sanskrit, but my understanding of the language is not complete, and i know to read arabic. If there was only one language i'd be all the much happier,wouldn't you?:)

id cry i dont know why

yes ,i think your ideal is very good .if that we can have more time to do another important things but not to spare much time to learn language