Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Can Chinese Replace english alphabet letters as the Global Language ?

Chinese& english alphabet letters

10 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    R U RETARDED? not to be mean but its common sense that english has 26 simple characters to learn besides 0-9 and a few symbols like the ampersand &. Where as Chinese has around 5000 characters that are very hard to write. This is y despite being one of the hardest languages to learn english is one of the most used languages in the world. Plus theres alot of cool stuff u can do with it like those name charts where u write ur name vertically and think of an adj for each letter or putting letters in a cross to spell two different words and such. (2 simple examples but u get the idea)

    Source(s): Top of class 2nd yr Mandarin Chinese student, native english speaker (from MI)
  • 1 decade ago

    It's highly unlikely. There are literally hundreds of thousands Chinese characters (some are used in Japanese kanji, even) but there's even pinyin now, which is a reading aid that replaces the Chinese phonetic symbols with English alphabet letters.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, English is already the lingua franca of the world. If a Chinese company and a Brazilian company do business, they're going to speak English (most likely.) If Chinese company and a Mexican company do business together, they'll speak English to each other. Is it fair? No. But that's just how it is. Even if the American economy collapses entirely, English still will retain its prestige: this, too, is not fair, but the truth is that English is generally seen as more prestigious as Chinese across the world -- even in China. Not fair, but who ever said life was fair?

  • Belie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The usage of the Roman alphabet vastly outnumbers that of the Chinese writing system.

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • Deraj
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    No. Languages using the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets will prevail as the dominant global languages because they are far easier to input into modern day technology.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't think so because English is much more useful in the economic world, which determines world power. Chinese characters can't be used in acronymns, stock market tickers, etc., and English has many many more words and so messages are more easily conveyed because they are not as dependant on the context.

    Source(s): Chinese class 2 years
  • 1 decade ago

    I hope not, have you seen how much more difficult it is to write each chinese symbol?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No. Chinese characters take too long to learn, are not sufficiently flexible, and have no way to reflect changes in tense and conjugation.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes the language of one's small dicked boyfriend must be the global language.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if the spaces between words are introduced and the simplified characters are simplified...

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.