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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 153 of 299 09 February 2012 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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ကျွန်တော် က မြန်မ ဘသ စာ သင် ပါ
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 154 of 299 09 February 2012 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow! it came up well!
Now I can type Burmese on this forum! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5121 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 155 of 299 09 February 2012 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm not sure where you got the idea that Somalia doesn't exist... It's true that the country doesn't really have a central government right now, and also several regions have declared themselves as autonamous regions, but the country still exists. Its official languages are Somali and Arabic. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 156 of 299 10 February 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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well , it's same as it would not exist.
According to Wikipedia Arabic and Somali are official, but CIA states that only Somali is used. Well, Somalia is quite a complicated region. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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ကျွန်တော် ပိုလန်လူမြူးပါ။
နာမည်က ကြစ်စစ်တောက်ပါ။ မြန်မာ ဘာသာ စာ သင်ပါတည်။ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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I am listening to the podcasts :(
67 left! it's so many of them! but I can understand most of the content :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 159 of 299 18 February 2012 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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and I am trying to learn Cambodian script!
wow!I hav to know Georgian, Armenian, Cambodian, Amharic and some more scripts to reach my goal! that's a lot! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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Only 20 podcasts left!
hurray! Well, it's my log, so I can do what I want here. Therefore, why not try to make some lessons on here? I feel like teaching people Yi. I am not someone who has deep knowledge of this language, but I want to post some stuff that I learned. You are welcome to correct me, if I make mistakes. I am writing it something like to enforce stuff I learned. Anyway. Yi lang is used by Yi people (not very surprising info). It's distantly related to Burmese and Tibetan, since it belongsto Sino-Tibetan language family. You won't find many similarities to Chinese, but they do exist. nga - I, me sounds like ngoh in Cantonese and Nga in Burmese, and Nga in Tibetan (all mean the same thing). la - to come, is similar to Mandarin lai meaning "to come", right? Yi language uses a very specific writing system. A syllabary which consists of 821 characters (!). it's a phonetic script. One of the biggest phonetic scripts in the world. I think only one language has bigger syllabary, some spoken by one tribe in Philippiness. I forgot the name, but you can find info on omniglot. Can your computer read Yi? if not, you should install the font. It's not hard to find, just use search engine. Not a very useful advice, I know, but it really is not hard. I would tell you if it would, right? 
Can you see the picture? It's the Yi font. The photo is taken from http://www.omniglot.com/writing/yi.htm page. You can read about Yi there. Looks interesting, don't you think so? ꉢ nga this is the character for the sound [nga] It looks a little like two letters N combined together. The meaning is 'I,me'. This is our first word in Yi! Nuosu language uses SOV word order. so you say: 'I book read'. ꉢꄯꒉꀘ nga tepyy bi this is how this would look like in Yi. ꄯꒉ tepyy means 'book'. ꀘ bi means 'to read'. easy? no? ꀘ does it look a little like a book on a table? how does it look like for you? ꄯꒉ the ꒉ sign on it means 'water', and it looks like a drop of a water on a window. ꄯ what this look like? Nothing for me :( we must remember that Yi is phonetic script, so the pictures may not be the same as the original meaning (Yi used to be something like Chinese, until they reformed it). anyway, try to remember our first lesson. Hope you have enjoyed it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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