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
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Icelandic and Mandarin
Name a language that has the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (without googling that sound!).
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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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Josquin wrote:
Name a language that has the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (without googling that sound!). |
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As I still don't get that one right every time ... Welsh.
Name a Indo-European language with aorist and pitch accent.
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Konanen Heptaglot Newbie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4257 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English, French, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (Gulf), Italian, Russian
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Serbo-Croatian (ijekavski-štokavština)
I hope this has not been asked yet. If yes, then shame shall become me:
Name a language, that differs between dental AND alveolar stops.
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Konanen Heptaglot Newbie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4257 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English, French, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (Gulf), Italian, Russian
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Anyone who can name a language, that differs between both dental and alveolar stops? No?
Edited by Konanen on 12 May 2013 at 8:37pm
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viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese
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Malayalam.
Name a language native to Asia that has the dental fricative (the 'th' sound in English).
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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
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Turkmen!
Name a Slavic language that used to be writen in Arabic writing system.
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Bosnian!
Name the endemic Italic language spoken in Greece.
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
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Judeo-Spanish
name a German dialect in northern Italy.
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