Proto-Indo-European
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Can you supply some quotes to support this position?
Try to find any conlang on a language family list. You won't. Conlangs are their own category, separate from natural languages.
Can you supply some quotes to support this position?
Instead of Arabic absorbing Berber speakers, the Berber languages remain strong and dominant in the Maghreb. During the Islamic conquest of Iberia, Iberia get's linguistically Berberified. Nothin of this is after 1300 AD.Why would Iberia become berber speaking after 1300?
Basque becoming dominant is unlikely, at best you could have them be more presented overall and a even bigger influence on Castillian and Aragonese.
Dravidian resurgence seems unlikely, not even with Maharashtra, Orissa and other surrounding territories the population would still be smaller than the Indo-Aryan portion.
Persian is a Indo-European language.A Dravidian language could become a language of trade.
However, Arabic, Persian or Mandarin are also strong contenders.
But OP says:Persian is a Indo-European language.
POD can be as early as 1300AD.
I’m surprised you talked about the Japanese and the Finns when there’s the elephant in the room—China.With China,you don’t need a wank—you only need to avoid some of the screws,naming the Ming Dynasty or how the Ming Dynasty collapsed just as it became commercially powerful.Overall, the prospects are pretty dim for a non-Indo-European language to be the lingua franca post 1300 AD. Nothing but an utter wank of some culture can possibly work.
Although Esperanto is technically not Indo-European, its grammar and vocabulary are both derived from Indo-European languages and I don't really think it fits the spirit of the challenge. Some other constructed language could potentially be a lingua franca, but it is difficult to see unless there really isn't anything else suitable.Esperanto is technically non-Indo-European (nor is it a member of any other language family), as it's a constructed language. Continuing on this theme, it's difficult but not impossible to imagine some sort of constructed language becoming the global lingua franca.
English didn’t become the world language because its dental fricatives are so easy to pronounce and its lexical stress so easy to master.there's not much to be done about the latter, which could make it hard enough for speakers of non-tonal languages to learn that it can't quite manage to be a global lingua franca.
Also, the majority of the world’s languages are tonal.which could make it hard enough for speakers of non-tonal languages to learn that it can't quite manage to be a global lingua franca.
Yeah, the difficulty of the language often has no relation to how many people speak it as their mother tongue; that is determined by, well, their mother (aka their environment growing up).English didn’t become the world language because its dental fricatives are so easy to pronounce and its lexical stress so easy to master.
As @Augenis said, Chinese (a southern dialect of Mandarin, not our modern Beijing standard) is by far the easiest answer. Followed by Arabic, even though this would require a little earlier POD -- a POD too late in Islamic history will result in Persian being the secular lingua franca, not Arabic
Scenarios where Ugro-Finnic languages are strong in number of speakers within Europe could work. If Slavs could be overwhelmed by their neighbors, it would be a good start.
What if some wars of conquest go very poorly for the Slavic princes, and the city-states end up falling? Although, the counterattacks would have to involve large-scale massacres/subjugation.Probably won't happen with 1300 being the earliest PoD. Slavs just had too vast a demographic advantage on Finno-Ugric speakers by that point.
Very, very hard to do after 1300.What if some wars of conquest go very poorly for the Slavic princes, and the city-states end up falling? Although, the counterattacks would have to involve large-scale massacres/subjugation.