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Josquin
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 Message 193 of 306
07 May 2012 at 8:50pm | IP Logged 
aldous wrote:
This is from the Wikipedia article on the dual number:

Wikipedia wrote:
In Austro-Bavarian, the old dual pronouns have replaced the standard plural pronouns, for example, accusative enk, you plural (from Proto-Germanic *inkw, *inkwiz). A similar development in the pronoun system can be seen in Icelandic and Faroese.


I stand corrected. My apologies.
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 Message 194 of 306
07 May 2012 at 8:55pm | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:
Name a language that uses an alphabet derived from Greek, but is not spoken in Europe.

I'm guessing you're thinking of Coptic? But wouldn't the Cyrillic alphabet technically qualify?

clumsy wrote:
Name a Turkic language which is spoken by people who practice Judaism.

Are you thinking of Khazar? That language is extinct.

Or are you thinking of the Bukharan Jews? I thought they spoke Persian.


Just in case I got one of those right, here's one:

Name a language that doesn't have words for 'left' and 'right'.
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clumsy
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 Message 195 of 306
07 May 2012 at 10:44pm | IP Logged 
aldous wrote:
clumsy wrote:
Name a language that uses an alphabet derived from Greek, but is not spoken in Europe.

I'm guessing you're thinking of Coptic? But wouldn't the Cyrillic alphabet technically qualify?

well, maybe... if you think about Mongolians and Kazakh, but Cyrillic is derived more distantly from Greek, so I didn't notice it, but well, that would make 'Kazakh' 'Kyrgyz' and 'Mongolian' valid answer.



clumsy wrote:
Name a Turkic language which is spoken by people who practice Judaism.

Are you thinking of Khazar? That language is extinct.

Or are you thinking of the Bukharan Jews? I thought they spoke Persian.


Just in case I got one of those right, here's one:

Name a language that doesn't have words for 'left' and 'right'.[/QUOTE]



You shall pass.
I was thinking about Karaim, I didn't know about Khazars, but let it be, being exting doesn't disqualify the answer.


Edited by clumsy on 07 May 2012 at 10:45pm

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clumsy
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 Message 196 of 306
09 May 2012 at 3:34pm | IP Logged 
Guugu Yimithirr!
An Aboriginal language.

Name a language which has many words for snow (it's not what you think, not Inuit, it's the most widespread language myth that Inuit has many words for snow, but there is another language which has enormous number of words for snow)

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 Message 197 of 306
13 May 2012 at 11:44pm | IP Logged 
I believe the Sami language spoken in northern Scandinavia has many words for snow, but I
could be wrong.

If I did get it right: name a language that uses the same word for 'yesterday' and
'tomorrow'
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Josquin
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 Message 198 of 306
14 May 2012 at 12:11am | IP Logged 
Hindi

Name a European language that uses the same 'r'-sound [ɹ] as English.
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 Message 199 of 306
14 May 2012 at 12:51am | IP Logged 
Some dialects of Dutch, and - according to Wikipedia - also some dialects of German that i have never heard of.


Name a language with at least 87 consonants (most of which are clicks), 20 vowels, and two tones

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 Message 200 of 306
14 May 2012 at 2:49am | IP Logged 
Taa, or !Xoon or ǃXóõ


Name a language with three types of consonant mutation


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