What if we had only one language?

[BADecker]

Having one language is not something that is possible. Languages keep increasing everyday as new ones are being discovered on a yearly basis.

Is it?

How many languages were formed in the last 10 years?

The language decreases over time and it happens because the native speakers adopt to a different language for survival like how English captured most of the places but only few manage to keep their native above English and also adopts English better.

Yet there are as many dialects as there are people, because nobody means exactly the same thing as anybody else that uses the same language. So, the idea of the same language for all is a judgmental idea that can, really, never happen.

[jrrsparkles]

Having one language is not something that is possible. Languages keep increasing everyday as new ones are being discovered on a yearly basis.

Is it?

How many languages were formed in the last 10 years?

The language decreases over time and it happens because the native speakers adopt to a different language for survival like how English captured most of the places but only few manage to keep their native above English and also adopts English better.

Yet there are as many dialects as there are people, because nobody means exactly the same thing as anybody else that uses the same language. So, the idea of the same language for all is a judgmental idea that can, really, never happen.

Agreed, it is never going to be the same all over the place even if we have only one language left to use.

I wonder why OP thought that one language is gonna be a solution for war and make peace and unity?

Did he see any movies based on that idea recently?

[~~Qu4nTuM~~]

many problems occur because of misunderstanding of language, even in one language there are many misunderstandings, not a few wars occur because they don't understand each other, many negotiations also fail because of language, I think if we had one language it would be easier.

[Y3shot]

So I have been wondering what if we had only one language?

What if all the countries of the world speaks just one language, would it have brought peace and unity in the world?

What's even the scientific explanation to the different languages we have in the world?

I think it would have been so boring having one language,   people learn different languages for fun. Listen to different languages looks very interesting with you even understand the language. I think nature choose this different language for Man and as far as we have different cultures I don't think language can be one. The language we speak represents our culture and tells where we are coming from  one language would have Been possible if culture was just only one.

[Mr.right85]

What if all the countries of the world speaks just one language, would it have brought peace and unity in the world?

Even within a family and between siblings, there is bound to be some banter.
Banter isn’t an attribute of language but more of a human nature sort of thing. It often arise out of misunderstandings or having things taken out of context. So long as there is a possibility that one could feel his or her right is being downplayed, there could always be conflict situations within two individuals or groups of persons.
Language doesn’t take this away from a people, it’s just human nature having manifest in itself.

[TwitchySeal]

^^^ But the world is rapidly getting one language. It isn't the language of one of the nations. Rather it is the super-language of combining all the computer languages into one between computers of the whole world.

Why isn't it binary, the language that's been around for hundreds of years and used by pretty much every system in the world today.

[BADecker]

^^^ But the world is rapidly getting one language. It isn't the language of one of the nations. Rather it is the super-language of combining all the computer languages into one between computers of the whole world.

Why isn't it binary, the language that's been around for hundreds of years and used by pretty much every system in the world today.

Binary is simply a stepping stone to the more complex methods of computing. Actually, Quantum is a better step, and the organic nervous systems of people is the ultimate that leaves binary and Quantum in the dust.

[Bushdark]

many problems occur because of misunderstanding of language, even in one language there are many misunderstandings, not a few wars occur because they don't understand each other, many negotiations also fail because of language, I think if we had one language it would be easier.

If we had only one language then the world would have been very boring because there would be peace all over the world and there won't be language barrier. Although it is uncertain whether war would cease fore but the world would not be as sweet as what we are seeing now. One language could be easy to communicate everyone but one would not be able to keep secret and live a secluded lifestyle.
The way the world look like now is better than having one language just like we are about to have one currency.

[BADecker]

^^^ Actually, one language in the whole world would make it easier for the big crooks to subvert the whole world. Why? They wouldn't have to fight with learning all the languages to do it.

[Sanugarid]

So I have been wondering what if we had only one language?

What if all the countries of the world speaks just one language, would it have brought peace and unity in the world?

What's even the scientific explanation to the different languages we have in the world?

Even if we only have one language, what you say peace will not happen because there are greedy people. People will never lose this habit, they like to conquer other countries, they like to explore and do something new. Even Mars is already being developed even though it is so far away that it has still been able to be visited for people to explore. There are people who cannot be content, so for me peace is impossible.

[Perfectbaby]

One language can be possible language diversification begins from the adams and it's a part story of the world creation when they were  building a tower of babel and I quote

The story of the Tower of Babel explains the origins of the multiplicity of languages. God was concerned that humans had blasphemed by building the tower to avoid a second flood so God brought into existence multiple languages. Thus, humans were divided into linguistic groups, unable to understand one another.

This was the main reason for having multiple language to break means of communication in order to limits them from construction.

[Dunamisx]

I think we are better left in this way we are having diversity in language spoken and yet the people are leaving together with the common sense of belonging, we can also see it as a means to having privacy when you're making communication in some situations that you don't have to loud it out to the community or people around you, the other beauty of it is that we have the opportunity of learning any other language of our choice if we so wish to.

[Zoomic]

many problems occur because of misunderstanding of language, even in one language there are many misunderstandings, not a few wars occur because they don't understand each other, many negotiations also fail because of language, I think if we had one language it would be easier.

Having one language does not in anyway change the nature of humans. Even with one language and similar belief, people are still bound to disagree over more complex and even minor issues that have no linking with language.  countries still experience internal conflicts/wars even with the similarities they share. So, language is obviously not the problem but the human mind and their activities. Humans are social beings and domineering. Man will always want to conquer his environment and in the process of doing this, conflicts will arise irrespective of the similarities in language. As long as man co-exist with other humans and remain a social being, conflicts will always arise.

[Hispo]

I think we are better left in this way we are having diversity in language spoken and yet the people are leaving together with the common sense of belonging, we can also see it as a means to having privacy when you're making communication in some situations that you don't have to loud it out to the community or people around you, the other beauty of it is that we have the opportunity of learning any other language of our choice if we so wish to.

Well, you call it an opportunity to learn a language and such, but in reality, many people do not see the process of learning a language as something to delight or enjoy but rather as an obstacle to talk to their friends or even emigrate to different countries. Though, I cannot deny there is some social and cultural feeling of belonging linked to the language one speaks... It makes me wonder if suddenly we all talked the same language all around the world, it would translate to a loss of cultural heritage or value in our respective countries or we would continue the same way as we had.

Obviously, if we all talked German, Germany would have a cultural advantage over the rest of us, so would any land where the new universal language would be from.

[BADecker]

The real point really has little to do with different languages. What it has to do with is the mindset of the nations that us a particular language.

For example, English speaking people have a different mindset than Spanish speaking people. Their languages both, influence the people, and are a product of the way the people think.

Another example: In the US, few people speak in the language of the Beatniks of the US 1950s. While one might call it a dialect of English, it really is its own language in ways.

A language is the identity of a group or nation of people who use it. And the languages are continually changing in their own right... as new people are born and find that their language doesn't really satisfy their personal ideals.

In point: Because the languages of Russia and the Ukraine are so similar, the war is really a civil war.

[Ndabagi01]

So I have been wondering what if we had only one language?

That is not possible because everyone has different beliefs and wants to be unique in their own way. So embracing one religion will be impossible, even in the future.

What if all the countries of the world speaks just one language, would it have brought peace and unity in the world?

It would not have brought peace and unity, but it would have improve them significantly from where they are now. Sharing the same beliefs and culture is supposed to foster peace and unity amongst us, but those same people are often the greatest enemies of each other, causing more harm than good to each other.

What's even the scientific explanation to the different languages we have in the world?

I don’t think there’s a scientific explanation to this, it is just nature and nature cannot be changed or reversed.

[Kelward]

So I have been wondering what if we had only one language?

What if all the countries of the world speaks just one language, would it have brought peace and unity in the world?

What's even the scientific explanation to the different languages we have in the world?

If everybody in the world speaks one language, this will not guarantee peace in the world, because families and countries that speaks the same language still have hatred and clashes. So there's not point believing that one language will erase conflicts or wars, because love and  hated, peace and war are parts of the human DNA. The main thing that one language can achieve is easy communication, other than that we all have different temperaments, even in a family.

As for the explanation of scientific reason for different languages, it might be as a result of migration, and tribes will be changing intonations as they go farther. But from a Christian religious believe, different languages came about when people tried to build a tower that'll reach the heaven, God, had to give them different languages to spoil there plans.

[Bushdark]

I think we are better left in this way we are having diversity in language spoken and yet the people are leaving together with the common sense of belonging, we can also see it as a means to having privacy when you're making communication in some situations that you don't have to loud it out to the community or people around you, the other beauty of it is that we have the opportunity of learning any other language of our choice if we so wish to.

Having just one language does not mean that the world would be peaceful. That is why archeologist would be telling us different things on how everyone tend to be speaking just one language. Language is something that bring people together and they could come up with something unrealistic about the world been something else before now. One of the things that would lookm odd if the world have single language is war and conflict. This would not stop the one language speaking people.

[yazher]

I'm also curious about what could be the result of this because, with this kind of scenario, we could go wherever we want in the world and talk to the people in any country and easily learn about their cultures, traditions, and histories. But this is not as easy as we think because one of the tactics of the nations who want to conquer others is to wipe out their language just like what the Westerners doing to the Arabs. No one knows how to speak Native Arabic in their country except the teachers and their students. the common folks and the laymen are speaking Modern Arabic which has some words from French, English, etc. Therefore, you can see that Russia and China are preserving their language no matter how much English popularity has gained in the world.

[Frankolala]

I don't think that speaking one language will make any difference with the way things are currently. It will be very easy to understand each other in any country or place that you find yourself, but this doesn't mean that evil people will not still exist because since the beginning of the world the devil has been there to poison humans mind to do evil due to greed.

War will be existing because even inside the same country that are speaking the same language people fights and commit so many atrocities. We are in a world that power must be exercised and the weak will be oppressed,this is human nature for you.