# What spoken language is the most verbally compact?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 19, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-spoken-language-is-the-most-verbally-compact/377066 "2006-10-19T07:42:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-spoken-language-is-the-most-verbally-compact/377066/41 "2006-10-20T23:25:51Z")

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I was thinking of the future tense in e.g. Romance languages. I only mentioned German because the previous poster did.

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