zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6550 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew
| Message 57 of 306 15 February 2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
Montana Salish (according to Wikipedia)
And now we are in that part of the world, could you name a language which according to a strict phonemic analysis only has one vowel (3 if you disregard the lack of phonemic pairs), and which uses this one vowel so sparingly that it just as well could have dropped it completely. Actually the one I'm thinking of also has pharyngal consonants. |
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Ah, wikipedia, my goto source.
Hard find, but that is Nuxálk (looks interesting)
Name a language that has 80%-85% lexical similarity with Purik and is spoken by over 100000 speakers.
Edited by zenmonkey on 15 February 2012 at 4:41pm
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akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5284 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 58 of 306 16 February 2012 at 5:10am | IP Logged |
Ladakhi, right?
Name an extinct Baltic language that was spoken in present day Russia until fairly recent times
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Billy Bob Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5281 days ago 48 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish
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Prussian.
Name a language that uses an adapted form of the Arabic script and always indicates all vowels.
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5497 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
| Message 60 of 306 16 February 2012 at 5:53am | IP Logged |
Uyghur.
Name a language discovered within the last five years.
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GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4959 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French
| Message 61 of 306 16 February 2012 at 6:24am | IP Logged |
Koro
Name a language that was once extinct and has been brought back from the dead
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akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5284 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 62 of 306 16 February 2012 at 7:09am | IP Logged |
That's an easy one... Cornish!
Name a language with a Prosecutive case
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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 63 of 306 16 February 2012 at 1:56pm | IP Logged |
Tundra Nenets and Old Basque - again thanks to Wikipedia.
Which extinct language used "pis" as a pronoun?
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vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6958 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese
| Message 64 of 306 16 February 2012 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
About the question :
Name a language that was once extinct and has been brought back from the dead
the answer can be also Hebrew (or not?)
Name a language that , when you want to reach the speakers, you need to use 3 different scripts.
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