Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4958 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish
| Message 17 of 306 10 February 2012 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
Japanese?
Name a whistled language.
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5067 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 18 of 306 11 February 2012 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
Silbo Gomero! (although it's technically just whistled Spanish)
Name a language that has a vowel to consonant ratio of at least 2:1.
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
| Message 19 of 306 11 February 2012 at 3:59am | IP Logged |
Hawaiian, but I'm quite possibly wrong. I figure it must approach 2:1, because it can have no more than one consonant per syllable (syllable structure is (C)V), and all words must end with a vowel.
Name a language with OSV sentence structure.
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akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5287 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 20 of 306 11 February 2012 at 5:33am | IP Logged |
Jamamadi!
Name a language with over 60 cases
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
| Message 21 of 306 11 February 2012 at 5:54am | IP Logged |
The Tsez language.
Name a language with no irregular verbs.
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
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ESPERANTO
Name an agglutinative language!
Fasulye
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 23 of 306 11 February 2012 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
Basque
Name an asian language using latin alphabet.
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Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4906 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish
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Turkish
Name a language with vowel harmony (other than Turkish of course).
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