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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4772 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 9 of 23 30 December 2012 at 4:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I dabbled in Abkhaz earlier this year.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 10 of 23 30 December 2012 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I was interested in Chukchi a while back and found a few resources in Russian. I'd also be interested in learning Manx, but want to make sure my Irish is strong enough first and avoid language interference. It would be great if someone could add them to our forum language list and tags one day. Edited by Teango on 30 December 2012 at 5:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4600 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 23 30 December 2012 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I am not learning any, but I think ainu [original to norther japan] sounds interesting... I dont think that ones listed
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| ling Diglot Groupie Taiwan Joined 4586 days ago 61 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Indonesian, Thai | Message 12 of 23 30 December 2012 at 8:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Atayal, but finding materials for it isn't easy. Most of it is either scholarly papers or
material designed for young children. And for the most part, the language of instruction is Chinese... which is OK for me, but it reduces my learning efficiency. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 13 of 23 30 December 2012 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I bought a course for Samoan and plan to start studying the language at some point. Unfortunately the nearest languages listed are Maori and Hawaiian. Considering that there are around 370,000 speaker of Samoan worldwide and it has the most speakers out of all the Polynesian languages I find it rather annoying that it's not listed on the forum.
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| Cambyses Newbie United States writerjake.blogspot. Joined 4363 days ago 32 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 23 31 December 2012 at 12:03am | IP Logged | ||
Are you just learning to decipher the Sumerian cuneiform tablets? I was under the impression that we don't know how Sumerian sounded. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 23 31 December 2012 at 1:29am | IP Logged | ||
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If skimming articles about Quenya and Sindarin* counts as "studying", I'm guilty.
*Funnily enough, this happens around Christmas nearly every year. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tanya b Senior Member United States Joined 4778 days ago 159 posts - 518 votes Speaks: Russian | Message 16 of 23 31 December 2012 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I tried Comanche, a native American language with about 700 speakers. It sounds like a long-lost relative of Japanese with a down-home Oklahoma twang thrown in.
But I set that aside in order to study Russian. With regards to Mohawk, it was considered important enough to be included in Kenneth Katzner's book "The Languages of the World", which I recommend to everyone. Probably most of the rare native American languages have been recorded by anthropologists and the recordings are sitting in a university library somewhere. Of all the "unlistable" languages so far, my favorite is Abkhaz. I really like it. Instead of a language being "unlistable" or "unpopular", maybe a more PC term is "waiting to be discovered". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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