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akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5284 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 89 of 306 25 February 2012 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
mashmusic11235 wrote:
The Eskimo-Aleut languages, which are spoken in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia. These languages are thought to have come to the Americas when part of the Bering Sea was frozen during the last Ice Age.
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Actually I was thinking of Ket in the proposed Dené–Yeniseian family, but that works too
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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 90 of 306 05 March 2012 at 5:09pm | IP Logged |
Kartof wrote:
Name a language that's relatively homogenous, yet with no standardized official form. |
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English
Name a language whose name is a palindrome
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 91 of 306 05 March 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
Kartof wrote:
Name a language that's relatively homogenous, yet with no standardized official form. |
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Name a language whose name is a palindrome |
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Malayalam! Man, I went through every combination before I found it!
Edited by Arekkusu on 05 March 2012 at 6:13pm
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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 92 of 306 05 March 2012 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
And what is your challenge?
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 93 of 306 05 March 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
And what is your challenge? |
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Sorry, I was so excited to find the answer that I don't have a question... Can anyone else post one?
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4770 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish
| Message 94 of 306 05 March 2012 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
Here's another palindrome language name - Tat
Name a sign language that has official status in its country.
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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
| Message 95 of 306 11 March 2012 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
It's New Zealandic Sign language !
I think auslan?
Name a language with people using its own original script, but with less than 100 000 speakers.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 96 of 306 11 March 2012 at 4:22pm | IP Logged |
clumsy wrote:
Name a language with people using its own original script, but with less than 100 000 speakers.
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Cherokee.
Here's a tough one; I wonder if there are more than the one I know of, because that one might be hard to find.
Nevertheless:
Name a language whose name translates as "human speech".
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