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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5930 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 33 of 86 11 January 2009 at 3:01am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks again to everyone responded to my original question. All the replies were very fascinating to read and I learned many things I didn't know, e.g. that Swedish has two pitch accents, that Russian doesn't have regional dialects (which will be nice to know if I ever get around to learning it.), that Korean has its own writing system. I also really enjoyed the mini-discussion about literary versus colloquial Spanish, the comment about the word order in German, and also the post briefly explaining a few features of Esperanto.
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| null Groupie China Joined 6131 days ago 76 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 34 of 86 11 January 2009 at 7:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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ideograms!
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| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6671 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 35 of 86 11 January 2009 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
Volte, have you ever looked at Turkish? I'm sure you'd dig it. In any case, when reading that sentence I almost expected Turkish to come at the end... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6445 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 36 of 86 11 January 2009 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've never seriously looked at Turkish; I know a few words, and have read a bit about it. It's very much on my wishlist; if I could find audiobooks I liked in it (I find the ones hosted by the Turkish government unusably grating, mainly due to the ultra-low audio quality) it would be on my list for this year. As long as I can't, it remains with Basque, Tamil, and Georgian on my "nice to have, but behind languages that are both more useful and have better learning materials" list. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| wharrgarbl Newbie United States Joined 5850 days ago 27 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 37 of 86 11 January 2009 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I guess one unique thing about English is that we don't use accents and our pronunciation has no regularity to it whatsoever, so you're left guessing the pronunciation of words all the time.
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| obara Newbie India subramanian-obula.blRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5972 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes Studies: Gujarati | Message 38 of 86 12 January 2009 at 6:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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INDIA-TAMILNADU-MADURAI HERE AN INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGE BY NAME SOURASHTRA[ALSO SAURASHTRA]
IS SPOKEN. IT HAS GOT ITS OWN PECULIAR EXTRA SOUNDS NOT AVAILABLE IN OTHER INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES, LIKE GUJARATI, MARATHI, HINDI, ETC. THOSE WHO EVINCE INTEREST TO KNOW ABOUT THIS LANGUAGE CAN VISIT MY BLOG. http://upamanyuoss.blogspot.com Dr.H.N.Randle & Dr.Uchida Norihiko have done some research on this language. OBARA 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| telephos Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6273 days ago 29 posts - 31 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: Norwegian, Ancient Greek | Message 39 of 86 12 January 2009 at 9:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm French and what I like in my language is its unique spelling system.
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| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6781 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 40 of 86 12 January 2009 at 10:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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I assume we are talking about how languages are unique in purely linguistic terms, and not in terms of the accomplishments of the countries where language is spoken or the people who speak it. I think Russian may be the language with the most palatalized consonants. I am not 100% sure, but I can't think of any other language that has more and I wasn't able to find one in Wikipedia.
Russian also has a rather extensive grammar, though, it is hard for me to pinpoint something that would be unique. I do think that things like adverbial participle is very rare if not unique. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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