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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 113 of 306 28 March 2012 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Name a language that is solely official only in a country with less than <1% of the total number of speakers of the
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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 114 of 306 28 March 2012 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Catalan (the country being Andorra)
Name a language with more than 50 million speakers that does not have official status anywhere, neither nationally nor regionally. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4686 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 115 of 306 29 March 2012 at 12:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Javanese. Name a Germanic lingua franca other than English that has been used extensively outside of Europe.
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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 116 of 306 29 March 2012 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Afrikaans
Name a language with more speakers in a neighboring country (where an unrelated language is spoken by the majority) than in the country where it's official. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 117 of 306 29 March 2012 at 2:00am | IP Logged | ||
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Azerbaijani
Name a language whose word for "tea" isn't of Sinitic origin (that is, it isn't derived from either "te" or "cha"). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 118 of 306 29 March 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged | ||
Mandarin (茶 is a loanword, most likely from a Tibeto-Burman Loloish language where it meant 'leaf', which in turn was borrowed from an Austro-Asiatic language). Name an agglutinative language which exhibits sandhi. Edited by Ari on 29 March 2012 at 7:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 119 of 306 29 March 2012 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Japanese
I will rephrase my last question: name a language whose word for "tea" isn't "te", "cha" or a derivative/cognate of either. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 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 120 of 306 29 March 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Methinks "arbata" in Lithuanian qualifies (unless that last -ta is "tea" in disguise).
Name a linguistic isolate which currently only is spoken by one person. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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