Can someone explain how random nigger tribe in Africa can use language with dozens of cases or absolute direction system instead of relative, but powerful nation like America uses casual as fuck language that is simplified beyond believe from a proper English that is also degenerate version of whatever was before in Middle Ages, which also probably just some horrible, twisted pidgin Latin.
When you do nothing all except nigger about and pick berries, you have the time to make up all kinds of mumbo jumbo squiggle shit.
The West is too busy building great things and exploring the universe to worry too much about language.
>>1810281
The more non-native speakers that must learn a language, the less complex that language becomes.
>>1810281
because complexity of a language does not depende upon complexity of the civilisation and because as languages get bigger and come into contact with more people then superfluous features get dropped as people have to communicate with each other and don't have time for random rules. This is especially true in the case of English which is basically a creole.
>The West is too busy building great things and exploring the universe to worry too much about language.
In between building spaceshipz n sheeit the west actually spends quite a lot of time worrying about language and linguistics.
>>1810281
Language difficulty and complexity is relative. Those African languages might have a very complex system of declension but English has a complex system of syntax and prepositions. Those languages seem super complex to you because they are complex, just in areas you're not use to, but as a whole, they're as equally grammatically complex as any other language.
>>1810311
No language has superfluous features, just desirable features and non-desirable features for the specific civilization. English is not a creole, it is a thoroughly complex language in its own right. Thinking its otherwise is just anglophone bias.
we wuz linguistically complex n sheit
>>1810281
Language typology is cyclic, they typically go from isolating, to agglutinative, to fusional back to isolating again.
Language change is also driven 95% by sound change, that is slight differences in pronunciations between generations and thus almost completely unconscious.
>>1810295
Like Ancient Greek?