think English itself had already become broken language, i.e. creolised from the viewpoint of linguistic anthropology. However, I don't disagree that broken pidgin English is temporary global language for Homo sapiens simply because of the largest number of people who understand it. I don't want to pursue its political history because every language, even that of ethnic minority, has its own ethnocentric bias.
Collapsing inflected grammar, typical among Indo-European language family, like classic Latin or Sanskrit, is not always unfortunate accident. It means easier to learn, like creolized Malay, not complicated Javanese, had become the official language of the Republic of Indonesia, for example.
As far as I know, or I personally believe, the most systematic and logical language is Sanskrit, and the most sophisticated and poetic language is Japanese, among languages used by more than one hundred million people on this planet. I feel lucky that my first language is Japanese, which is incredibly difficult for lazy person (like me...) to learn as a foreign language!
2013/07/16 GMT
2019/04/21 JST revised
Tatsu Hirukawa
