If you had to teach neanderthals a language in 2 months

[kogase]

Originally posted by: Boztech
I'd probably be a lot more well-suited to actually answer this question if I did know all the languages in the world.

The obvious answer would be Latin since it is the common base for most all other major languages.

Not really. English is a Germanic language, Chinese is... Chinese, Arabic is a Semetic language, languages in Africa are not descended from Latin. The most widely spoken Romance language is probably Spanish.

 

[Boztech]

Edit: NVM

 

[Raiden256]

Are they NILFs? (Neanderthals I'd like to...)

'cuz if so I'd teach them the language of looooove! 😉

 

[phantom309]

Originally posted by: dug777
Esperanto :laugh:

That's actually what I was thinking. Since it's an artificial language, it has a real structure with pronunciation and grammatical rules that actually work all the time. It was designed to be easy to learn.

 

[Yossarian]

ASL. It rocks.

 

[RaDragon]

Latin.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: kogase
Neanderthals were a different species weren't they? Could you just teach them a language?

Sure...but they would still be dumb as fvck.

They actually had similar size brains as homo sapiens. Plus they were physically superior (strength and stamina). They likely went extinct through a combination of having a slightly lower birth rate than homo sapiens plus an unstable climate.