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| Logie100 Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 5318 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 2 13 August 2011 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
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hey guys, I just found out about these lists called "swadesh" lists, which are lists of words that are universially translatable. There is swadesh lists for so many languages, and the words seem very common words, so I think it would be a good list of words to learn in a new language. there is about 200 words for each language.
Here is an appendix of swadesh lists for many languages :D Hope this is a helpful link. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Swadesh_lists 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 2 13 August 2011 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
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The Swadesh list concept is quite anglo-centric, and ignores most of the differences involved in language.
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