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| mizunooto Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4695 days ago 42 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Mandarin, Japanese, Polish, Kazakh, Malay | Message 25 of 306 11 February 2012 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kazakh.
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Atsugewi - In Northern California.
Name a non-tonal language that you would traditionally expect in a greeting during a Chadar trek (Hindu would be wrong). Edited by zenmonkey on 12 February 2012 at 1:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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Urdu, perhaps?
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Swahili.
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Maltese
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Nubi.
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Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin. Name a language without a copular verb. Edited by Ari on 12 February 2012 at 1:17pm 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 32 of 306 12 February 2012 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bahasa Indonesia - which contrary to Russian doesn't have a past tense where a copula might sneak in through the backdoor.
If you really really crave a copula you can of course use words like "merupakan", but the meaning of that is more like "to form, constitute", or you could use "menjadi", but that means something like "become". "Ada(lah)" does translate into 'to be', but with the meaning 'exist'. However normally you don't miss not having a copula. Name a language which in most cases isn't used with the official spelling on the internet. Edited by Iversen on 12 February 2012 at 1:49pm 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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