The previous answers are there, and finally there are 12.. Chinese is the best language in the world (and the most difficult to learn)
Chinese is the most advanced language in the world. Chinese is the only high-level language in the world that does not use letters. (The same goes for Korean and Japanese, right?) Korean is not, Korean is a pinyin script
Chinese is a hieroglyph created by the industrious and intelligent ancient Chinese people based on the images of things in life. His advantage is that he has not learned People who have learned Chinese can also guess the meaning of a word based on its appearance. (Hey, people like me are very stupid and can’t guess)
First of all, historically speaking, the earliest Chinese character oracle bone inscriptions appeared in the Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. And some current bachelors with research can still decipher it. In the Qin Dynasty, in 221 BC, after Qin Shihuang unified the writing system, Xiaozhuan and official script became known to anyone who was interested or had a certain amount of knowledge. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, regular script was familiar to everyone. Although Egyptian writing is more than 2,000 years earlier than ours, no one can decipher ancient Egyptian writing now. Then there is the English that is widely popular now. The works of Shakespeare 300 years ago are incomprehensible to ordinary undergraduates. This first illustrates the vitality of Chinese and its great development prospects. (I agree)
The most obvious advantage of Chinese is its broad thinking. Ruan Cishan mentioned in a "Big Times, Small Stories" that the thinking speed of Chinese is faster than that of English. In mathematics, the reaction speed to numbers is also faster due to the monosyllabic pronunciation. But in terms of logical thinking, Pinyin is still better. However, judging from the development trend of human civilization, Chinese as an ideographic language can freely combine new terms, new concepts and even new ideas, and can accommodate the impact of the explosion of information and knowledge. It will undoubtedly develop As the only common language of mankind, it is more convenient and colorful to communicate ideas in this language.
The quality of a language actually depends on two aspects. First, whether it can be mastered with very little memory; second, whether it can master more knowledge than others in its lifetime. To put it in an extreme sentence, it should be: the best language is the language that is known without learning, but has the most knowledge, or in other words, the language that is learned less but knows more.
Why is it said that Chinese is a language where "little is learned but much is known"? Because the thinking speed in Chinese is faster than that in English. Because Chinese uses "sound", the thinking speed in Chinese is faster than that in English. Mandarin has 21 initial consonants, 35 finals and four tones. The result of continuous multiplication is 2900 sounds, but only 2500 can be used, and 1200 are actually used in Mandarin. Compared with Mandarin, English has 20 vowels and 20 consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet, so the number of sound types in English will not exceed 20×20=400; conversely, any sound that is not within these 400 sounds The sounds are not recognized by the English language, or are considered incorrect pronunciations; the "syllables" in question are not here. A comparison will show that Chinese has three times as many pronunciation types as English.
Let me talk about why the more types of sounds, the faster the thinking speed. Suppose there is a person who can only pronounce two sounds. Specifically, he can pronounce the two sounds a and b. According to computer theory, we know that he can still express the entire world using these two symbols. Suppose further that there are only 400 things in the world that need to be expressed. Then, a British person can use each pronunciation to express one of the 400 things, while a person who can only pronounce two sounds sometimes has to use nine pronunciations. To express one of 400 things, because only the ninth power of two is greater than 400. For example, British people use 'i' to represent 'I', but people who only know two sounds may use abbababba to represent the concept of 'I'. It takes the average person about a quarter of a second to make a sound. Comparing the two, you will see that the person who only knows two voices not only expresses slowly, but also takes effort. When expressing the concept of 'I', the British use a quarter of a second, while the two-voice people use two and a quarter seconds. If two people live with this ratio throughout their lives, all the information they enjoy in their lives will be its inverse ratio 9:1. In actual situations, the most obvious one is the contrast between Japanese and Chinese. We know that Japanese uses 100 different sounds, while Chinese uses 1,200 sounds. Therefore, Japanese people must use two or three words to pronounce many Chinese characters. voice to express.
If we assume that all words in Japanese are expressed with two sounds, doesn’t it mean that the information that Japanese people can enjoy in their lifetime is only half of that of Chinese people? We know that thinking is actually a process of speaking in the mind. If you express quickly when speaking, then the speed of thinking should also be fast. A specific example is that Zhao Yuanren once compared the speed of reciting multiplication tables in English and Chinese. It took 30 seconds for Chinese and 45 seconds for English. Therefore, if two people recite it in English and Chinese at the same time, by 30 seconds, the Chinese user must be thinking of nine-nine-eighty-one, but the English user must not be here. Maybe, he is just thinking of Seventy-seven forty-nine. This proves that thinking in a language with more pronunciation types is faster than using a language with fewer pronunciation types. This has been confirmed by many scholars at home and abroad.
The United States has a Cox report, which cites a large number of comparisons to illustrate that it is impossible for the Chinese to achieve the same results as the United States' more than a thousand nuclear tests through thirty or forty nuclear tests. . The only explanation is that China stole American technology. Some people also call this incident the Li Wenhe Incident. If those Americans could study the differences in thinking between Chinese and English. We can figure out why China's progress in its thirty or forty nuclear tests is almost the same as the progress in the United States' more than a thousand nuclear tests.
The basis for believing that Chinese will definitely defeat English is not here yet. The key is to solve the problem of knowledge explosion that mankind is currently facing. We know that the current number of English words, including various biological names and new terms patented inventions, has exceeded millions. If we consider that there are some components in English that can be deduced and associated; such as prefixes, suffixes and compound words, it requires There are also a million basic words for memorization. And all these words can be expressed in four thousand Chinese characters in Chinese. A Chinese physics expert can rely on his basic knowledge of chemistry in middle school to read through the papers of a chemistry expert. On the contrary, in English, there are so many lines. Experts from different industries in Britain and the United States want to exchange their academic results, which means they are talking to each other. With this advantage, Chinese is qualified to become Esperanto, but some scholars in our country still want to exchange their academic results. Chinese Pinyin, isn't this just learning from Handan and imitating others?
For example, the word pork represents pork in English. It has nothing to do with pig and meat, but only represents a combination of them. If pork, mutton, beef, and pig are combined, If you compare lard, suet and talon together, you will find that all conjoined words in English are new symbols that have nothing to do with any of the decomposed words, but they constitute the main body of English vocabulary. , millions of words in English come from this way. The fundamental reason is that if pork is changed to the form in which pig and meat are joined together, then pork has to be pronounced four times and pork is only pronounced twice; therefore, conjoined words can save pronunciation but increase memory, while split words can save pronunciation but increase memory. Words require no memorization but increase the number of pronunciations. Imagine that a butcher uses the word 'pork' thousands of times every day. Using a word with two pronunciations saves 2,000 pronunciations than a word with four pronunciations. Why not? But when encountering uncommon words, English still uses decomposed words just like Chinese. For example, donkey meat is expressed as donkey meat. Because words that are not commonly used, even if the symbolic form is set up, others cannot remember them. Chinese's ability to decompose conjoined words in English is very useful. It greatly reduces the number of words that need to be memorized; not only that, it can also clearly organize the position of words in people's minds. The birth of Darwinism was based on Linnaeus' binomial method, which made various impressions in the mind change from plane to three-dimensional. For example, before Linnaeus, people gave all living things a name. As a result, because there were too many types, the same creature might have two names, while other creatures might not have names. Linnaeus first classified all living things, gave them a class name, and then put a word under the class name, and the two formed a binomial name. This is not only clear, but also greatly reduces the number of symbols that need to be remembered; for example, there were originally 10,000 names, but now they are divided into 100 categories, and then divided into 100 types within each category. All we need to remember is only 100 categories. Names and one hundred species names, ***200 instead of the original 10,000.
As the problem of knowledge explosion gradually worsens, it is necessary for humans to transform other terms according to this method, and the only way at present is to reform according to the structure of the Chinese language.
This phenomenon was first realized by Leibniz of Germany. He believed that Chinese is the language of meaning that the Western world has dreamed of since Aristotle. However, he did not see the true characteristics of sound, but defined Chinese characters as the most advanced writing in the world due to their quantitative performance. I think if he saw today's world of knowledge explosion, he would definitely ask all countries in the world to abolish pinyin and use Chinese characters. Therefore, we Chinese people are also qualified to accuse those so-called civilized Westerners, who are causing environmental pollution and destroying forests and grasslands. Because printing a book with the same content, Western languages ??waste twice as much paper as Chinese. There are five times more people in the world who speak Western languages ??than people who speak Chinese. According to a simple multiplication of factors, 10-20 times more wood will be wasted and more than 20 times industrial wastewater will be wasted. In terms of the superiority of language, To put it bluntly, Westerners are not qualified to make irresponsible remarks about Chinese. Even illiterate people know how to find the Chinese text among the five working languages ??of the United Nations, because the Chinese text is the thinnest one.
Finally, let’s talk about how many words or symbols a person can remember in his or her lifetime. The number of Chinese characters used by Chinese people usually ranges from three to four thousand, while English in Shakespeare's time only had 30,000 words, and he himself could master them all. However, by the time of Churchill, his vocabulary was still 30,000, but English at that time already had nearly one million words. Therefore, I think Shakespeare's proficiency in using English words is simply unattainable by future generations. How many words should you master to learn English? Linguists' requirements for English words are: an educated English user should master between 50,000 and 250,000 words. Not only is the gap huge, but also, by this standard, both Shakespeare and Churchill should be illiterate. At least the uneducated ones.
Through the above arguments, Chinese has many advantages such as fast thinking speed, strong ability to form words, the ability to solve the knowledge explosion problem currently faced by mankind, and great development prospects. Therefore, Chinese is the most popular language in the world. Excellent language.