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What living language is the most protocolized? As in most completely described by its rules, with the fewest unsystematic exceptions? I’m guessing French

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finnish would high on this list

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Turkish and Finnish (both are agglutinative)

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Patrick Atwater

Alphabetically I venture Korean

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French is formalised and enforced by the Académie française—a relatively small set of people who basically what is French. Words do follow rules, and language evolution is slow, from stable state to stable state. Like it took to decade to settle on mél and courriel for email. Explicit old fashion protocol? English gets neologism on the fly, following rules closer to the meme and the gene. It does look like an implicit protocol.

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portuguese isn’t really far

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I'm French, I speak Italian and English, my partner is Australian and he also speaks Chinese, and he says French is the most and I think I agree

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I think such a language should be sought either among artificial languages (like Esperanto) or among those that underwent serious reforms in the 20th century when linguistics was already developed enough to systematize language well (like Russian, Turkish or Chinese). Also, I'd point out Finnish and Icelandic - there are historically really few exceptions in them.

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Vorcigernix aka Adam

JavaScript I guess.

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after you memorize the gender of everything in french it seems p formal alright

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