Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.

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bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Tonal, using different tones to differentiate meaning:

The car. The car?

You intonate the a differently to denote different meaning.

Logographic - picture-based writing.

OP is asking what if a Chinese language became the global standard rather than English.

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