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Luso
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Portugal
Joined 6061 days ago

819 posts - 1812 votes 
Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish
Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical)

 
 Message 17 of 23
31 December 2012 at 3:45am | IP Logged 
I can read Mirandese. I don't know how to speak it, though.

It is a language spoken by some 15.000 people in Northeastern Portugal. Some people on the other side of the border speak other versions of this language, which is Asturian-Leonese. Every speaker of the language also speaks Portuguese.

It has an interesting story, since it descends from the language spoken in the Kingdom of León. Portugal obtained its independence from this Kingdom, but our language is more closely related to the one spoken in its Western part, that is, Galician.

Edited by Luso on 31 December 2012 at 3:46am

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Shemtov
Diglot
Groupie
United States
Joined 4814 days ago

49 posts - 59 votes 
Speaks: English*, Biblical Hebrew
Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Aramaic

 
 Message 18 of 23
31 December 2012 at 6:11am | IP Logged 
tanya b wrote:

Instead of a language being "unlistable" or "unpopular", maybe a more PC term is "waiting to be discovered".

Whats so bad bout calling a spade a spade and stating the fact that some languages cannot be listed as a TL on this site?

Edited by Shemtov on 31 December 2012 at 6:25am

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GRagazzo
Diglot
Senior Member
United States
Joined 4961 days ago

115 posts - 168 votes 
Speaks: Italian, English*
Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French

 
 Message 19 of 23
31 December 2012 at 6:41am | IP Logged 
I study Sicilian, but I understand why it isn't on the list. Although it has more native
speakers than some of the languages that are listed it is still considered a dialect by
many, and it would be pretty ridiculous to add every dialect to the list.
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darkwhispersdal
Senior Member
Wales
Joined 6040 days ago

294 posts - 363 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin

 
 Message 20 of 23
31 December 2012 at 5:35pm | IP Logged 
Cambyses wrote:
Hampie wrote:
Akkadian and Sumerian


Are you just learning to decipher the Sumerian cuneiform tablets? I was under the impression that we don't know how Sumerian sounded.


As far as I'm aware Akkadian is used to reconstruct some sounds of Sumerian through Akkadian syllabic spelling, loanwords and sign names.
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Serpent
Octoglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
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Joined 6597 days ago

9753 posts - 15779 votes 
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Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

 
 Message 21 of 23
31 December 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged 
Shemtov wrote:
tanya b wrote:

Instead of a language being "unlistable" or "unpopular", maybe a more PC term is "waiting to be discovered".

Whats so bad bout calling a spade a spade and stating the fact that some languages cannot be listed as a TL on this site?
I thought this was tongue-in-cheek:)
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clumsy
Octoglot
Senior Member
Poland
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Joined 5178 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 22 of 23
02 January 2013 at 12:21am | IP Logged 
Well, yes I have in my collection following languages:


America:
BLackfoot
Inuktitut
Greenlandic
Quechua
Aymara
GUarani
Haitian Creole

Africa:
Amharic
Tigre
Somali
Oromo
Zulu
Afrikaans
Chichewa
Malagasy
Lingala
Kongo
Sango
Yoruba
Hausa
Igbo
Wolof
Bambara
Fula
Tamazigh
Arabic
Tunisian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic
Middle Egyptian
Coptic
Twi
Shona

Middle East:
Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew
Akkadian
Sumerian
Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmaji)
Syriac
Turkish
Greek

Caucasus:
Georgian
Armenian
Azeri

Central Asia:
Persian
Dari
Tajik
Pashto
Uzbek
Kazakh
Uyghur
Kyrgyz
Karakalpak
Tuvan
Amdo-Tibetan
Tibetan

South Asia:
Sindhi
Dzongkha
Panjabi
Gujarati
Tamil
Malayalam
Telugu (?)
Kannada (?)
Sinhalese
Dhivehi
Bengali
Nepali
Limbu
Lepcha

East Asia:
Mongolian
Xibe
Manchu
Maonan
Chinese
Yi
Zhuang
Mulam
Va
Hakka
Cantonese
Minnanese
Bunun
Japanese
Okinawan
Korean
Hani
Lisu
Nakhi
Chejuan

South East Asia:
Vietnamese
Burmese
Shan
Thai
Lao
Khmer
Ilokano
Tagalog
Tausug
Cham
Javanese
Indonesian
Malay

Oceania:
Cook Island's Maori
Bislama
Samoan
Hawaiian

North Asia:
Yakut

Eastern Europe:
Russian
Ukrainian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Finnish
Estonian
Swedish
Romanian
Polish (for Japanese)
Czech
Slovak
Hungarian
Slovene
Croatian
Serbian
Albanian (Gheg and Tosk)
Arberesh
Bulgarian
Macedonian

Northern Europe:
Icelandic
Danish
Faroese
Old Norse
Welsh
Irish
Breton

Western Europe:
German
Dutch
Luxembourgish
Italian
Esperanto
Latin
French
Spanish
Catalan
Basque
Portuguese

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Kiniun
Diglot
Newbie
Norway
Joined 4350 days ago

7 posts - 8 votes
Studies: Yoruba, Norwegian*, English

 
 Message 23 of 23
02 January 2013 at 2:09am | IP Logged 
Planning on learning Edo in the near future, only problem is that the only book I've
found isn't written using tones, so that could be problematic. I'll have to look around a
little more.


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