which is the world's most difficult language?

[trustt]

Is it Icelandic??
also please tell what exactly do they mean by Indo-Aryan Languages? and how did these languages come into being.

[static_void]

It's pretty hard to say what the world's most difficult language is. For an English speaker, it wouldn't be Icelandic -- that's a Germanic language (as is English), and while it is apparently quite hard to learn, the basic grammar is likely somewhat similar. For an English speaker, the most difficult languages to learn would be ones that aren't Indo-European languages; Mandarin or Japanese or some other east Asian language would probably be the most confusing for an English speaker.

Indo-Aryan is a language sub-family that's present in the Indian subcontinent. Indo-Aryan is part of a much larger group of languages called Indo-European. That family includes Hindi, Farsi, Greek, English, Russian, Spanish, Icelandic and many other languages. Indo-European has many sub-families, like the Germanic branch, the Slavic branch, and the Romance branch (these groups compose the majority of languages spoken in Europe). Really, just check out the wikipedia page for a basic understanding.

How did they come into being? Uh, I'll leave that one for someone else...

Why the rolling eyes?

[BSK]

Originally Posted by static_void

Why the rolling eyes?

that´s why I treat this as a troll post. "most difficult" is a very relative and therefor dumb expression. hamming distance might be a better description. the question should be, "which language has the biggest hamming distance to my mother tongue?" ..

[Nataliapicado]

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[trustt]

some experts point out that Sanskrit is the mother of all languages that are Indo-European. is it true?
plus , are these languages older than the Egyptian Languages during the times of Pyramids?

[Zay]

For an english speaker? I'd say that one of the Northeast Caucasian languages would be the most difficult.

They have up to 60 consonant sounds, up to 30 vowels, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northea...sian_languages

There is also Finnish and hungarian, which sound nothing like indo-european languages, and finnish has 16 noun cases if I remember correctly.

[reggie_love]

I'd say arabic is pretty hard, just because the grammar is so alien compared to most other grammatical constructions.

English is tough too because it's a Germanic language with all the standardization of Romance languages forced upon it, making it into a bizarre mélange of confusion.