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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 9 of 48 03 December 2012 at 8:35am | IP Logged | |||||
If Google can't translate it, then it doesn't exist to me! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4889 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 10 of 48 03 December 2012 at 8:44am | IP Logged | |||||
Spelling out there is a bit arbitrary ... try "Pááfang. Though I think my spelling is more common, at least among the 1320 speakers! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4559 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 11 of 48 03 December 2012 at 8:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been planning to take a go at kalaallisut, but it's going to be a while before I'll have the time for it.
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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 12 of 48 03 December 2012 at 9:03am | IP Logged | |||||
Wow, didn't know that. Then I probably can't name Welsh. ;) How many gos do I have? :) The most unpopular I've ever taken up was probably one of the Indic ones during my studies - so Pali, Sanskrit or Bengali? The least popular one I'm studying at the moment is probably one of these 3: Luxembourgish, Kurdish or Armenian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 13 of 48 03 December 2012 at 10:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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The most useless language I have studied in earnest was probably Low German (Platt). But the most not-very-popular language I have not-really-studied in not-quite-earnest would be Old Gutnish, which was spoken on the Swedish island Gotland around 1000 years ago, and may have lingered on among a few uneducated peasants and/or language enthousiasts until the present day - but it seems that nobody really has cared to track them. It left at least one testimony in the Old Gutnish saga, which I have quoted in my log thread. Edited by Iversen on 03 December 2012 at 11:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4632 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 14 of 48 03 December 2012 at 10:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Definitely Ainu! Only about 20-30 people speaking it as a native language and about a 1000
as L2 from what I heard! Interesting writing system (similar to Japanese Katakana but with some character changed) and really nice pronounciation. I know only a few words but I'm definitely gonna learn it at some point. Apart from that, a few Taiwanese and Chinese dialects seem worth a shot. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5669 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 15 of 48 03 December 2012 at 10:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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For languages I'm currently studying, that would be Indonesian.
For languages I plan to study some day: Icelandic, Croatian and Nahuatl. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 16 of 48 03 December 2012 at 11:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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Breton.
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