The world’s hardest language is NOT what you expect
This is a review of why Navajo is the world’s hardest language to learn, harder even than Chinese, Korean, or Arabic. (In my humble opinion as someone who has studied all of these languages.) The primary reason for this involves Navajo verb complexity: they change like a Rubik’s cube depending on 7 different modes, 12 aspects, and 10 sub-aspects, which mix and match to generate different forms like a giant times table. In addition, pronunciation is also extremely complex with rare sounds like ł, tones, and glottal stops!
Sources for this video include “The Navaho Language” by Young and Morgan, 1972, “An Introduction to Grammar for Language Learners” by Don Ringe, 2018, and Wikipedia.
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