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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6961 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes  Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 65 of 306 16 February 2012 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Correction:
Name a language that , when you want to reach ALL the speakers, you need to use 3 different scripts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 66 of 306 16 February 2012 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Japanese (kanji, hiragana, katakana, all of which are used in everyday language).
Name a language that will be dead (unless drastic action is taken) before the end of the century. Edited by mashmusic11235 on 16 February 2012 at 10:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 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 67 of 306 16 February 2012 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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DELETED Language that is about to extinction: blackfoot - only 5 000 speakers left. my question: Name a language using pictographic script. Edited by clumsy on 16 February 2012 at 10:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 68 of 306 17 February 2012 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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There are no remaining languages that use an entirely pictographic script, but the ancient Cuneiform language used them, and the modern Chinese languages still have a good many pictographic characters.
Name a language that was once persecuted in its own country. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 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 69 of 306 17 February 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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No, actually Igbo and Naxi use pictographic script!
Not all people, but only some part of them. language that was persecuted in its won country: English (by Norman French). Minnanese (?) by Mandarin on Taiwan. What is the language that uses consonant classes in its script. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 70 of 306 17 February 2012 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||
I stand corrected. My apologies. The Thai language divides its consonants into classes (High class, Mid class, and Low class), which determine the word's tone. Name a non-African language that uses "clicks". Edited by mashmusic11235 on 17 February 2012 at 5:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5311 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 71 of 306 17 February 2012 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wait! Cuneiform was a) not a language, simply a writing system used for Akkadian, Hittite, etc and b) it was logographic and syllabic, not pictographic for the vast majority of its lifespan.
As for a non-African click language, the answer appears to be Damin. I'm going to repeat Iversen's question as it has so far been unanswered: "Which extinct language used "pis" as a pronoun?" Edited by LittleBoy on 17 February 2012 at 5:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5069 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 72 of 306 17 February 2012 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
"pis" is the pronoun "who" in Oscan. Name a language (living or dead) in which the word (or at least one word) for "horse" is cognate with Latin "equus" and is/was spoken west of Greece. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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