: Not likely. Languages don't work like that, over long periods of time, and especially not when they evolve naturally. Look at how language evolved in our world. From Wikipedia or the entire

Not likely. Languages don't work like that, over long periods of time, and especially not when they evolve naturally.

Look at how language evolved in our world. From Wikipedia or the entire subsection of scholarly research into it. Boiled down to basics, before there was language, there were proto-languages. These proto-languages got more and more complex as our need for new words to describe new things expanded (that's not just a source of meat, that's a bear, and it can kill you if you're not careful!) The thing is, they sprung up in different places, and spread with those groups. That's why tonal languages (some African languages, Chinese) are so different. Why Slavic languages (Russian, for example) are so different. Why sentence structure in Japanese is different from English, let alone what you can omit in a sentence and still have it make perfect sense.

Now, that isn't to say there won't be a commonly agreed upon language of trade. But that gets tricky, because of the vast majority of languages on offer. Today the languages of engineering and commerce are (and please feel free to add any one you feel I've omitted):

German
Chinese
Spanish
English

And it gets even more complex if you get into certain fields. In IT (programming especially) the main language (of the west) is English. In medicine it's Latin. So there still isn't a universally agreed upon language.

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