Talk:Oriental language

This article is hopelessly uninformative and superficial. I suggest deletion. --Kaihsu Tai 17:57, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

To put it slightly differently, this page currently is just a stub, and it probably isn't very useful because "Oriental Languages" isn't a classification used much by linguists (and then probably only as an administrative rather than technical classification - some universities will have a Department of Oriental Studies, for example). There isn't very much, if anything, that languages of Eastern and South-East Asia have in common with each other but not with languages from other parts of the world. We already have a lot of information on languages in Wikipedia, and this article doesn't really fit into the overall scheme of things. It's also worth noting that Chinese and Kanji characters (and, I assume, Korean characters but I know nothing at all about Korean) are ideograms or logograms, not pictograms. Onebyone 18:17, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Antonym?
So would the opposite of "Oriental language" be Occidental language aka Interlingue? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 23:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)