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
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Yolŋu Matha
Name a language that is spoken as a secret language only by the adult men of one ethnic group.
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Billy Bob Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5281 days ago 48 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish
| Message 98 of 306 12 March 2012 at 8:30am | IP Logged |
Aini
Name a language that is ergative and tonal.
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Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4903 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish
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Standart Tibetan.
Name an extinct "centum" Indo-European language.
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vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4676 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 100 of 306 12 March 2012 at 11:41am | IP Logged |
Latin? (or is it not extinct?)
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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 101 of 306 12 March 2012 at 11:46am | IP Logged |
Latin is considered to be dead, but not extinct.
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 102 of 306 12 March 2012 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
Umbrian and Oscan are dead as dodos, so they might qualify.
Name a language with OVS clauses
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Billy Bob Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5281 days ago 48 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish
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Russian
Name an Iranian language that has been written with a script other than Perso-Arabic, Latin, or Cyrillic, in modern times.
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Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 104 of 306 12 March 2012 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
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Swedish
Name a language with a writing system used exclusively by women.
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