Swahili was another example McWhorter gave. It's the native language of relatively few people, but is the second language of hundreds of millions. And it's extremely regular, has no clicks or tones, has only relatively easy phonemes, has beautifully logical grammar, and, in general, is one of the easier languages in the world to pick up.
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Date: 2010-04-28 11:04 am (UTC)