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| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5124 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 201 of 306 14 May 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Welsh
Name a language that does not have a direct translation for the word 'please'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 202 of 306 14 May 2012 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, I thought of a proper language, so the correct answer would have been Faroese, but I accept your answers, too. The Siegerland region in Germany where the [ɹ] is spoken is quite close to the place where I grew up. Edited by Josquin on 14 May 2012 at 1:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 203 of 306 14 May 2012 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Central Rotokas (I have a faint memory of having mentioned Rotokas before)
Name a language with only two vowels (living or dead). EDIT: Where did Iversen's post go!? Edited by Mauritz on 14 May 2012 at 3:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 204 of 306 15 May 2012 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Abkhazian dialects
yes, of course Sami is the correct answer - The fact that Inuits have 100 words for snow is one of the myths in the language word, I think they should make a TV program 'Language myth busters' Name a language spoken officialy in a autonomous republic bigger than Argentine, but having only 363,000 speakers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aldous Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5240 days ago 73 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 205 of 306 16 May 2012 at 2:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Yakut
Which Chinese dialect is normally written using the Cyrillic alphabet? 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 206 of 306 16 May 2012 at 3:03am | IP Logged | ||
I had written Danish as a an example of a language without a direct translation of "please". Our most versatile parallel to "please" would be "venligst" (the superlative of a adjective, where "please" is a form of a verb). But I realized that "venligst underskriv her" word for word is a parallel to "please sign here" even though the implicite construction behind those expressions is very different. So I removed my message. The question I had asked was "mention a language with just 6 consonants (two less than Hawaiian)." Edited by Iversen on 21 May 2012 at 9:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5551 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 207 of 306 21 May 2012 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
Dungan? Name a Romance language (i.e. not Yiddish) previously written with the Hebrew alphabet up until about 1925. 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 208 of 306 21 May 2012 at 9:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Judeo-Spanish or Ladino (though I can't say whether the practice of writing it in Hebrew letters died out precisely in 1925 - WIkipedia says vaguely 'the 19. century').
Name a place where people still speak a language supposedly spoken by Jesus. Edited by Iversen on 21 May 2012 at 9:13am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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