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| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5703 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes  Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 38 09 April 2010 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm curious, how many Spaniards call Spanish : castellano? Any Latin Americans call it anything but "español"
Also, in French, English is called Anglais, while what we call French in English the French call francais. Italain is Italiano, and Japanese is Nihongo, Arabic = Arabiya, etc. I'm not sure how to spell the Mandarin word for Mandarin, the one that I think is spelled/said: Po tong hua. If I remember correctly, I was told by a Native Chinese man at a cultural event that it literally means peoples language. What is your language called in your own language, and what do other languages call your language? I'm constantly curious about this, and would like to know. PS. Its been a year plus since I've studied or practiced French, so I could be wrong with my spelling, I just did it by my blurry-visual memory. Please correct me if I'm wrong. PPS My computer is telling me that practiced is spelled wrong, what is it talking about? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6185 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 2 of 38 09 April 2010 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Well languages have different names in different languages! I was raised in a bilingual household and hence have two mother tongues (though my English is far better than my Pashto). There are two main dialects of pashto which (for some strange and rather amusing reason unbeknown to me say sh where the other dialect says kh and vice versa). So in my dialect of Pashto we'd call it Pakhto (kh = the same sound thats found in the German number acht). English is refered to as Angrezi and French is called Fransisi (I love the sisi part at the end for some reason its just satisfying to say), Japanese is Japani, Russian is Russi, Arabic is Arabi, Chinese is Chini, Persian is farsi I could go on but I suppose I'd bore you. As you probably know in Japanese you just add -go as a a suffix to the country's name in order to get the languages name. Edited by apatch3 on 09 April 2010 at 12:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miznia Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5351 days ago 37 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Cantonese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese | Message 3 of 38 09 April 2010 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Mandarin is Putonghua (without tone markings). It means common/general speech. Chinese in Mandarin is Zhongwen (from Zhongguo = China, wen = language).
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 38 09 April 2010 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||
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- To an Estonian...
Kõmri keel "Welsh" (cf. Welsh "Cymraeg") Rootsi keel "Swedish" Soome keel "Finnish" Vene keel "Russian" - To a Finn... Kyrmin kieli, kymri "Welsh" (cf. Welsh "Cymraeg") Ruotsin kieli, ruotsi "Swedish" Suomen kieli, suomi "Finnish" Venäjän kieli, venäjä "Russian" Viron kieli, viro "Estonian" - To a Hungarian Lengyel "Polish" Olasz "Italian" (related to "Wallachian", "Welsh" etc.) - To a Latvian... Krievu (valoda) "Russian" Vācu (valoda) "German (language)" - To a Lithuanian... Lenkų "Polish" Vokiečių "German" - To a Turk... Arnavutça "Albanian" Macarca "Hungarian" (cf. Magyar) Yunanca "Greek" - To a Welshman/woman... Cymareg "Welsh" Iseldireg "Dutch" Llydaweg "Breton" Saesneg "English" See the following thread for more discussion on the topic. how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=356& PN=1 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 38 09 April 2010 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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My native language is Ingles (that's Spanish for English). I think mainly Spaniards call it Castellano while Latin Americas call it español.
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| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5703 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 38 09 April 2010 at 5:57am | IP Logged | ||
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In responce to the first responce.
I know languages have different names in different languages, but I guess I'm saying I'd like to see what each language calls itself. (Wow, that sounds like a clumsy Spanish to English translation or something) So, in your native language(s). What do the languages call themselves and what does the Anglo-world know you as? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 7 of 38 09 April 2010 at 6:16am | IP Logged | ||
If you put it that way... "Chechen" - Нохчийн мотт ('Nokhchiyn mott') "Finnish" - Suomi "Georgian" - ქართული ენა ('kʰɑrtʰuli ɛna') "Hungarian" - Magyar "Korean" - 한국말 ('Hangungmal' - used in South Korea) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rabochnok Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5610 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Persian | Message 8 of 38 09 April 2010 at 6:36am | IP Logged | ||
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They aren't my native languages, but....
Turkish - Türkçe Persian - فارسی (Fârsi) Portuguese - português Also, about Latin Americans using "castellano" for Spanish, I seem to recall that it's a bit more common in Argentina, might be wrong though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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