vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6960 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese
| Message 33 of 306 12 February 2012 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
Brazilian portuguese perhaps?
Which is the popular trade language spoken daily by many people of two big countries despite the two standard forms of it .
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Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 34 of 306 12 February 2012 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
vilas wrote:
Which is the popular trade language spoken daily by many people of two big countries despite the two standard forms of it . |
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English!
Name a language whose written form commonly alternates between left-to-right and right-to-left with every row (bonus points for giving me the correct technical term for it).
Edited by Ari on 12 February 2012 at 3:20pm
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zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6552 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew
| Message 35 of 306 12 February 2012 at 3:52pm | IP Logged |
Ancient Greek on stone and it would be called Boustrophedon text.
And since the previous answer was wrong, I'll re-ask:
Name a non-tonal language that you would traditionally expect in a greeting during a Chadar trek (Hindu and Urdu would be wrong).
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Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4905 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish
| Message 36 of 306 12 February 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
Kashmiri.
Name an ergative language.
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5499 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
| Message 37 of 306 12 February 2012 at 10:37pm | IP Logged |
Basque.
Iversen wrote:
Name a language which in most cases isn't used with the official spelling on the internet. |
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English!
Edited by mashmusic11235 on 12 February 2012 at 10:38pm
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 38 of 306 13 February 2012 at 3:56am | IP Logged |
mashmusic11235 wrote:
Iversen wrote:
Name a language which in most cases isn't used with the official spelling on the
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English! |
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In most cases?
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5499 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
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Arekkusu wrote:
mashmusic11235 wrote:
Iversen wrote:
Name a language which in most cases isn't used with the official spelling on the
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English! |
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In most cases? |
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Good point. I was referring to the fact that, while most webpages are in good English, all too many people "rite lk this wn they tlk 2 each uthr" in chatrooms and whatnot. Ultimately, this one has me stumped.
Name a language which uses a writing system used by no other language (and which isn't Georgian, because the Georgian script is used for other Kartvelian languages).
Edited by mashmusic11235 on 13 February 2012 at 5:41am
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zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6552 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew
| Message 40 of 306 13 February 2012 at 6:36am | IP Logged |
Klingon?
Because Mayan is actually a whole set of languages.
Name a language with a name that starts with a "!"
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