Spoilers Romulan Language in PIC

[DEWLine]

I wonder how long we have to wait before proper codification of orthography, grammar, etc..

 

[Xhiandra]

PIC has a score to settle.

Namely, in ENT "Minefield", Hoshi Sato, with a head for languages, does not recognize the language spoken by Romulans as being closely related to, much less indistinguishable from, modern Vulcan.

But in the 2009 movie, a Starfleet communications officer can't tell Romulan from Vulcan to save his life.

So how does this work? Did the ENT folks speak the northern dialect which is very distinct from High Vulcan, while the officer in the Abrams movie was only familiar with the southern Romulanese on which the old Treaty of 2161 had been negotiated, indistinguishable from Vulcan? Moreover, did Nero's miners hail from a third dialect region, so that their talk could not be identified as Romulan or Vulcan back in 2233?

Timo Saloniemi

It doesn't. The Abrams movies are just really stupid, and should be ignored.

Here on Earth, two thousand years has seen the death of, oh, ten thousand languages at a timid estimate, and the birth of perhaps half a dozen, one of which is Klingon! Just a hundred years more and it might be that only about fifty are left. Or perhaps just one.

Agreed, we've reached a level of global communication where linguistic diversity is decreasing, coalescing around fewer and fewer "big" languages, and one central lingua franca (English).
I'm an example myself: some of my grandparents spoke Wallonian natively, whereas I'm a native French speaker with only a partial passive understanding of Wallonian. I'm no exception, a language (or should I say a group of languages, one of them being Picard) that was the region's main language is dying out.
So, I could see a single language emerging for a whole planet by the time that planet is unified under a single government. All it needs is for that government to decide that teaching happens in X language and a couple of generations later, everyone speaks X natively.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

It doesn't. The Abrams movies are just really stupid, and should be ignored

According to canon the Kelvin universe all Starfleet officers were turned into dumb asses due to the same subspace lensflare phenomenon that made Spock emotional every 20mins

 

[F. King Daniel]

And the co-writer and co-producer of those movies runs Star Trek now and had great creative influence on Picard, which spins off from events in the 2009 movie

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

According to canon the Kelvin universe all Starfleet officers were turned into dumb asses due to the same subspace lensflare phenomenon that made Spock emotional every 20mins

The phenomenon was eventually discovered by Kelvin Geordie while running a level 2 diagnostic and repaired by reconfiguring the deflector to emit a quantum subspace beam