European languages surpass all the other languages in their degree of literary sophistication, number of words and concepts, and grammatical skills. BUT you are not allowed to make this argument due to enormous influence of Noam Chomsky's theory of language with its claim that...
...the general principles underlying the structure of languages across the world, the rules which determine their grammar, are common, and that no fundamental difference exists between "civilized" and "primitive" languages. Children are biologically equipped with...
a βuniversal grammar" which allows them to generate an infinite number of novel sentences. With this theory, Chomsky sparked a "cognitive revolution in the human sciences", becoming "the most cited living person between 1980 and 1992"... While Pinker and others would go on to...
combine cognitive with evolutionary psychology, to argue that language is an innate behavior shaped by natural selection, and recognize IQ differences between ethnic groups, Chomsky's universal theory of language acquisition would remain a foundational stone...In truth...
European languages have a history of increasing sophistication, development of multiple literary styles and techniques (epic, tragedy, comedy, lyric, mystery, science fiction, fantasy...) philosophical concepts, and far more words with deeper meanings. European languages did not
emerge at once, but in time. Russian language before the 1700s, for example, was undeveloped, without a real Russian identity, stilted and artificial among the nobility, only to develop as a true literary language that could handle many ideas, feelings, experiences,
personalities, leading to a golden age in literature, Pushkin, Gogol...
Likewise, Latin did not have a literary identity until 70 BC-AD 18 when it was brought to perfection as a literary medium and many Latin classical masterpieces were composed by Virgil, Horace, and Livy...
Likewise, Latin did not have a literary identity until 70 BC-AD 18 when it was brought to perfection as a literary medium and many Latin classical masterpieces were composed by Virgil, Horace, and Livy...
Horace produced hundreds of poems in a wide variety of styles, elegies, love poems, odes, and hymns. It is no accident Europeans originated dictionaries and philology, the study of language families and their origins. Chomsky wanted to suppress superiority of European languages.
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