Who the heck makes a poll and includes swedish, Korean, and Italian, but doesn't include a relevant language like german. That being said, English.

I've never practised C#, might have to read up on it sometime.

It's definitely easier to type in English, no annoying extra bits above and below letters. 26 letters are also a lot more convenient that thousands of symbols.

People have tried to adopt a unified language, Esperanto, since 1887. Supposedly it's very easy to learn, however it fails in my requirements, squiggly bits above letters. a b c ĉ d e f g ĝ h ĥ i j ĵ k l m n o p r s ŝ t u ŭ v z
Plus it's missing q, w, x, or y. Got to keep a bit of challenge in scrable.

Yeah, I can agree with this.

Some earlier posts were saying English was good for music.  Huh?  Italian is the language of music.  (Quite literally.)  Could you imagine all those great Italian operas sung in English?  Yuck.

For me the nicest sounding language would either be French or Italian, depending upon my mood for the day.  But my favourite is Japanese because of the writing system.  Hiragana, katakana, kanji, and even roman letters in combination makes reading Japanese a visual feast.  I love it!

I would say it's arguably easier to type in Japanese.

English is so important to know nowadays, so I'm happy with knowing it, but my interests make me wish I knew Japanese :P

Longest word in the English language: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)

It's a draw.

Some more fun statistics

http://www.vistawide.com/languages/language_statistics.htm

Number of living languages: 6912

Language with the greatest number of native speakers: Mandarin Chinese [See Top 30 languages]

Language spoken by the greatest number of non-native speakers: English (250 million to 350 million non-native speakers)

Country with the most languages spoken: Papua New Guinea has 820 living languages. [See Top 20 countries]

Language with the most words: English, approx. 250,000 distinct words

Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname.

Language with the largest alphabet: Khmer (74 letters). This Austro-Asiatic language is the official language of Cambodia, where approx.12 million people speak it. Minority speakers live in a handful of other countries.

Language with the shortest alphabet: Rotokas (12 letters). Approx. 4300 people speak this East Papuan language. They live primarily in the Bougainville Province of Papua New Guinea.

The language with the fewest sounds (phonemes): Rotokas (11 phonemes)

The language with the most sounds (phonemes): !Xóõ (112 phonemes). Approx. 4200 speak !Xóõ, the vast majority of whom live in the African country of Botswana.

Language with the fewest consonant sounds: Rotokas (6 consonants)

Language with the most consonant sounds: Ubyx (81 consonants). This language of the North Causasian Language family, once spoken in the Haci Osman village near Istanbul, has been extinct since 1992. Among living languages, !Xóõ has the most consonants (77).

Language with the fewest vowel sounds: Ubyx (2 vowels). The related language Abkhaz also has 2 vowels in some dialects. There are approximately 106,000 Abkhaz speakers living primarily in Georgia.

Language with the most vowel sounds: !Xóõ (31 vowels)

The most widely published language: English

Language with the fewest irregular verbs: Esperanto (none)

Language which has won the most Oscars: Italian (12 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film)


A Rotakas keyboard should fit on any size phone, only 12 letters!

Because what you write and what you say have nothing in common

Well the most pleasing sounding language to me is, Portuguese. I love that language. But I also like Northern European languages, including Finnish.

I voted Russian. Though I primarily speak English due to living in Australia I speak Serbian with my parents. Russian sounds similar and it uses the Cyrillic script which I can also read.

I also love Japanese and Spanish as I find them easy to pronounce.