What do you think is the best language?

[Mnementh]

Mr Khan said:

Mnementh said:

Mr Khan said:

sethnintendo said:
English is a bastard language.

Most languages are. Very few have endured from sufficient antiquity to be considered "pure." Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew might qualify.

Chinese borrowed some elements from other languages, but not too much. Korean and Japanese on the other hand - borrowed the chinese writing system. I can't speak for Korean, but for Japanese at least the chinese writing system doesn't match. In Chinese every written character is a syllable, in japanese not. In chinese the grammar doesn't change the words itself (suffixes or prefixes). That's why the chinese characters are working. In japanese the words are changed. That's why the japanese writing adds another alphabet for this reason. It looks ugly if you compare texts in japanese with texts in chinese. At least the japanese writing-system is a hell of a bastard.

Right, Japan adapted their writing, and I suppose quite a few of the words (or word-fragments, at least) from Chinese. But wouldn't Chinese be an "origin" tongue, set as the basis of far eastern civilization?

Chinese borrowed some words and some grammar - but which living language does not. So yes, probably Chinese can be counted as an "origin" language.