The hardest language in the world?

The hardest language in the world is Linear A. It's so difficult that no one has ever successfully learned it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A

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Originally Posted by Oric

And Linear A isn't a language. It's a script.

True, but a lot of the discussion in this thread has revolved around scripts, especially ones radically different than the Latin script. And let's not forget that sounds are typically associated with ancient scripts (like hieroglyphs) once they're deciphered, making it possible to speak the language. It will almost certainly be different than it was when it was spoken natively, but the fact remains.

Originally Posted by Oric

And it's like that only because no one has deciphered it yet.Who knows, it could have been used to write English for all we know. The reason it's undeciphered is that the language that it probably was used to write is lost to us now, and it's not related to any other script we know of.

Hence my mention of it. If the language were simpler, deciphering it would be easier, especially given the tentative links with other languages as described in the article.

In fact, being undeciphered and spoken by no one, you might argue that Linear A is impossible to learn, and therefore the hardest language by default (a distinction it would share with all undeciphered and/or lost languages.

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