vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4770 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish
| Message 81 of 306 24 February 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged |
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Name a language isolate, spoken only by one person fluently, that requires that you point to your toe to say 10. |
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Taushiro
Name a language with Austronesian alignment that is not native to the Philippines.
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5497 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
| Message 82 of 306 25 February 2012 at 6:19am | IP Logged |
Madagascan.
Name a non-Celtic language that has consonant mutation.
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Billy Bob Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5281 days ago 48 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish
| Message 83 of 306 25 February 2012 at 12:49pm | IP Logged |
Hebrew
Name a language that isn't official in or indigenous to any South American country that is spoken natively by a South American politician.
Edited by Billy Bob on 25 February 2012 at 12:51pm
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 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 84 of 306 25 February 2012 at 2:50pm | IP Logged |
The answer is ... Polish!
There have been a lot of talk in the news about a candidate for Wenezuelan president
Andrzej RadoĊski
name a language using a phonemic script with more than 500 characters (I can think of
two).
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Billy Bob Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5281 days ago 48 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish
| Message 85 of 306 25 February 2012 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
Nuosu, right?
Name a Romance language that isn't Romanian/Moldovan that has been written in a Cyrillic alphabet.
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akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5284 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 86 of 306 25 February 2012 at 8:04pm | IP Logged |
Ladino, in occasional Bulgarian Sephardic publications.
Name a proposed language family linking Russia with the Americas.
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5497 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
| Message 87 of 306 25 February 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged |
The Eskimo-Aleut languages, which are spoken in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia. These languages are thought to have come to the Americas when part of the Bering Sea was frozen during the last Ice Age.
Name a language that has gendered first-person pronouns.
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 88 of 306 25 February 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
Eastern Tocharian! (it's extinct though, so I'll say Japanese as well)
Name a language that's relatively homogenous, yet with no standardized official form.
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