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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 209 of 306 21 May 2012 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Syria - Aramaic
name a language family which uses more than 5 writing systems. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aldous Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5240 days ago 73 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 210 of 306 23 May 2012 at 8:53am | IP Logged | |||||
Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, and Dravidian all meet this criterion. If you count writing systems no longer in use, then I think Austronesian could be added to the list. Name a language, besides English, that uses natural gender. (Languages without gender don't count.) [By the way, I just read through the thread again and saw that someone had already asked about Dungan. My apologies for repeating a question.] Edited by aldous on 23 May 2012 at 9:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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Old French: for adjectives, pronouns and participles.
e.g.: Bon: sg: bon (from bonum), pl.: bone (from bona). Name a language which have more than twenty cases in his declension. Edited by vrb1991 on 24 May 2012 at 6:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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Hungarian
Name a European language that has pitch accent. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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Croatian
Name a BRANCH of a language family that uses 5 or more different writing systems. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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Indo-Aryan (Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Bengali, Oriya, Sinhala, Arabic, etc.). But I'm not sure if Gurmukhi and Bengali count as separate scripts or as variants of Devanagari, but even without them there's got to be at least five.
Also Semitic (Cuneiform, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Ge'ez, Latin) I will also rephrase my question. Name a language that has a gender system similar to English, where animate nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inanimate nouns are neuter. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 215 of 306 25 May 2012 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
I was thinking about Tai-Zhuang. but well... this my question is just so easy anyway... hmm... but you forgot about ' Samaritan' in Semitic. And my answer is Swedish but I am not sure about this. Edited by clumsy on 25 May 2012 at 8:56pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| aldous Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5240 days ago 73 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 216 of 306 30 May 2012 at 3:58am | IP Logged | |||||
Ohhh, good call. I didn't know about that one.
No, most inanimate nouns in Swedish are common gender. In fact, I don't think any Indo-European languages do this besides English. Here's a hint: This gender system is a common feature among the members of a particular language family found in Asia. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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