Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

Edit:

We have 8 billion people, yet the best we could muster for the most total speakers of a language is under 2 billion, including non-natives...

  1. English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million Total speakers: 1.4+ billion According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers.

https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world#:~:text=1.,English%20(1%2C452%20million%20speakers)&text=According%20to%20Ethnologue%2C%20English%20is,native%20and%20non%2Dnative%20speakers.

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
    hexbear
    15
    1 month ago

    Every time this was attempted we chose the language of the worst colonizer at that time

    • huf [he/him]
      hexbear
      13
      1 month ago

      "chose". learning the language of the worst colonizer of your time's always been economically advantageous