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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 121 of 306 29 March 2012 at 10:27am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Well, excuse me for being creative! Fine, Polish. Name a language written with an alphabet of fewer than fifteen letters. EDIT: Damn, too slow. Iversen was first, so answer him instead of me. Edited by Ari on 29 March 2012 at 10:28am 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 122 of 306 29 March 2012 at 10:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
To iversen - Yaghan.
Serves me right for not investigating etymologies thoroughly enough. Speaking of which, both Polish "herbata" and Lithuanian "arbata" derive from the Latin "herba thea", which also makes it a derivative of "te". However, I'm gonna consider this question answered, because the map that inspired my original question does not recognize these words as derivatives or "te", so now I don't know how much I can trust the other grey circles on it. Anyway, name a language that doesn't (or traditionally didn't) make the distinction between blue and green. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 | Message 123 of 306 29 March 2012 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Japanese
(Finally one I knew.) Name a non-Germanic minority language in Germany protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Edited by Mani on 29 March 2012 at 11:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4676 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 124 of 306 29 March 2012 at 11:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Apparently, Aymar aru : http://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulu (except if "pulu" comes from cha or the... by some weird process?). But I have no question, I was just joining the thread briefly. 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 125 of 306 29 March 2012 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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To Mani: Sorbian (which is a Slavic language)
... and now you get the opportunity to answer Ari's question about an alphabet consisting of less than 15 letters! Edited by Iversen on 29 March 2012 at 12:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5597 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 126 of 306 29 March 2012 at 12:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Seanchló has.. damm it, 18 letters. Too much.
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| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5066 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 127 of 306 29 March 2012 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The Rotokas alphabet consists of only 12 letters.
Name a language in which the word for "coffee" isn't a derivation of Arabic قهوة ('qahwah'). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 | Message 128 of 306 29 March 2012 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Armenian. (սուրճ (surč̣))
I'll pick up vonPeterhof's question again. There are more languages that don't (or traditionally didn't) make the distinction between blue and green than Japanese... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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