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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes  Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 273 of 306 07 November 2012 at 3:21am | IP Logged |
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Amondawa (an Amazonian language, see link below)
Name a language in which syllables don’t have final consonants (except in loanwords). Amondawa 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 274 of 306 10 November 2012 at 3:11pm | IP Logged |
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Burmese and Yi!
Name a language writen from top to down and from left to right. 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 275 of 306 10 November 2012 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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Mongolian
Name a language with two different counting systems. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 276 of 306 11 November 2012 at 7:04pm | IP Logged |
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Korean
Name a language with separate dual pronouns (dual as in 'we both', 'you both', ...). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5066 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 277 of 306 11 November 2012 at 10:02pm | IP Logged |
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Old English
Name a language that has a distinction between inclusive and exclusive we ("You and I" vs "He/she/they and I"). Edited by Mauritz on 11 November 2012 at 10:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4430 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 278 of 306 11 November 2012 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
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Malay
Name a language with nasal harmony. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kickbox Newbie United States Joined 4405 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 279 of 306 12 November 2012 at 3:26am | IP Logged |
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Guaraní.
Name a language that has split ergativity. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 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 280 of 306 20 November 2012 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
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It seems that most ergative languages actually just have split ergativitet. So this will be a smorgasbord of possible contenders, among I have chosen - as a homage to the late Ken Hale - to choose the Australian aboriginal language Warlpiri:
Warlpiri exhibits a split ergative pattern whereby agreement clitics supplete according to a a nominative-accusative pattern, as in (1), whereas independent pronouns and DPs inflect according to an ergative-absolutive pattern, (2) Let's take something simple: name a 'language' used by criminals in the samme way as Cant, but based on another language than English Edited by Iversen on 20 November 2012 at 12:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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