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| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6043 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 65 of 90 18 June 2010 at 6:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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Is German the only language that writes three consonants in a row???
Flussschifffahre river boat trip/cruise Also... Is English the only language that is not a language isolate that does not have a closely related language? Every language I have learnt so far is mutually intelligible with another language in the same language family. English seems to be unique in this regard. It's almost a language isolate. THis could be the reason why English speakers tend to be monolingual. If your native language allows you to understand another language without having to learn it you might be more keen than someone who finds other languages completely impenetrable. Edited by John Smith on 18 June 2010 at 6:55am 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 66 of 90 18 June 2010 at 8:15am | IP Logged | |||||
Did you mean three of the same consonants? Not sure. Three different consonants? Dutch does that too. Usually only in compounds though and it gets way more extreme than just three: angstschreew 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5465 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 67 of 90 18 June 2010 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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How about 8 consecutive consonants (9 in the romanization) in the Georgian word
გვფრცქვნის (gvprtskvnis)? Admittedly this is not something you are ever likely to use, since it means "He is peeling us", but it is a perfectly acceptable, grammatically correct form. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5524 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 68 of 90 18 June 2010 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Strengths strengths strengths strengths strengths.
That's hard to say Edited by GREGORG4000 on 18 June 2010 at 4:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6043 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 69 of 90 18 June 2010 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah 3 of the same 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7189 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 70 of 90 18 June 2010 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
взгляд (vzgljad) - glance, sight, gaze, opinion взволноваться (vzvolnovat'sja) - perfective of 'to worry' мгновенный (mgnovjennyj) - instantaneous 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Qinshi Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5754 days ago 115 posts - 183 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English Studies: French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 71 of 90 17 July 2010 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Vietnamese was originally a non tonal language but developed tones from the loss of
certain initial and final consonants. Vietnamese was the first to adopt Chinese writing from the CJKV (China Japan Korea Vietnam) group with the obvious exception of Chinese itself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6204 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 72 of 90 18 July 2010 at 12:10am | IP Logged | |||||
English has some: skillless hostessship as well as some proper nouns. But since it feels funny, I think most people would separate those with hyphens. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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