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| judodan Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6054 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, Russian, FrenchB2 Studies: Swedish, Turkish, Polish | Message 233 of 306 11 June 2012 at 11:21pm | IP Logged |
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Kusunda
Name a language with a voiceless velar fricative [ɧ]. The nearest I can describe it is a soft /kh/ sound pronounced in the front of the mouth. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 234 of 306 11 June 2012 at 11:26pm | IP Logged |
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Swedish
Name an ergative language other than Basque or Georgian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5497 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 235 of 306 12 June 2012 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
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Tibetan.
Name a language that makes no distinction between adjectives and adverbs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 236 of 306 12 June 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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German!
Ha, that was easy, because we had to learn in school what's an adverb and how to use them in English. Name a language with more than 20 vowel sounds (counting long and short vowels as distinct sounds). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5497 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 237 of 306 13 June 2012 at 2:54am | IP Logged |
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Taa (or !Xoon).
Name a language that uses colors in the names of its dialects (I'm thinking of one in particular, but any one will do). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 238 of 306 13 June 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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Hmong (White and Green dialects)
Name a language with fewer than 15 adjectives. 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 239 of 306 13 June 2012 at 8:43pm | IP Logged |
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Korean?
The true adjectives are archaic like: 옛, 첫, 맏, 새 And their number is limited. Name a language using 3 different writing systems, two of which only in Church and things like that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5497 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 240 of 306 14 June 2012 at 3:28am | IP Logged |
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Georgian.
Name a language that uses a phoneme unique to that language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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