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Josquin
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Message 297 of 306

31 May 2013 at 11:51am | IP Logged

South Tyrolean

Name a European language that is written with only 18 letters of the Latin alphabet.
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Γρηγόρη�
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Message 298 of 306

31 May 2013 at 4:21pm | IP Logged

Gallo1801 wrote:

Name the endemic Italic language spoken in Greece.

Someone answered "Judeo-Spanish," but isn't this virtually or already extinct in Greece? A more likely answer is
Aromanian (a.k.a. Vlach/Βλαχικά), which is spoken by large numbers of people, including entire villages and towns
(e.g. Metsovo). Perhaps the question should have asked for "an endemic Italic language," rather than "the endemic
Italic language."
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Message 299 of 306

31 May 2013 at 6:04pm | IP Logged

Γρηγόρη� wrote:

Gallo1801 wrote:

Name the endemic Italic language spoken in Greece.

True, I was about to comment on that as well.
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Gallo1801
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Message 300 of 306

31 May 2013 at 9:03pm | IP Logged

renaissancemedi wrote:

Γρηγόρη� wrote:

Gallo1801 wrote:

Name the endemic Italic language spoken in Greece.

Someone answered "Judeo-Spanish," but isn't this virtually or already extinct in
Greece? A more likely answer is
Aromanian (a.k.a. Vlach/Βλαχικά), which is spoken by large numbers of people, including
entire villages and towns
(e.g. Metsovo). Perhaps the question should have asked for "an endemic Italic
language," rather than "the endemic
Italic language."

True, I was about to comment on that as well.

Aromanian is correct!

Ladino is spoken in a lot of other places and is originally not from Greece. Even
though English is native to the US it's not endemic anywhere as it can be found in many
places. To my knowledge Aromanian is only found in Greece, and FYROM and Albania which
used to be part of Greece years ago.
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Γρηγόρη�
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Message 301 of 306

01 June 2013 at 9:25pm | IP Logged

Gallo1801 wrote:

renaissancemedi wrote:

Γρηγόρη� wrote:

Gallo1801 wrote:

Name the endemic Italic language spoken in Greece.

Someone answered "Judeo-Spanish," but isn't this virtually or already extinct in
Greece? A more likely answer is
Aromanian (a.k.a. Vlach/Βλαχικά), which is spoken by large numbers of people, including
entire villages and towns
(e.g. Metsovo). Perhaps the question should have asked for "an endemic Italic
language," rather than "the endemic
Italic language."

True, I was about to comment on that as well.

So I guess that I get to propose the next question. Here's one along similar lines:

Name a Turkic language that is endemic to a country with a Romance official language.
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Message 302 of 306

10 June 2013 at 2:44pm | IP Logged

Gagauz in Moldova.

Name a Turkic language endemic to a country with a Baltic official language. (This language is actually nearly extinct.)

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Message 303 of 306

11 June 2013 at 12:03am | IP Logged

Karaim!
There are Karaim communities in Lithuania.

Name a language isolate.
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Josquin
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Message 304 of 306

11 June 2013 at 10:11am | IP Logged

Basque

I repeat my question: Name a European language that is written with only 18 letters of the Latin alphabet.

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