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| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6244 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes  Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 1 of 8 27 April 2010 at 11:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just read the wikipedia page for Archi; not only does the highly irregular language sound very interesting, when I heard the audio file of a man telling a story I completely taken; such a beautiful language, and just the amount of sounds the speaker produced!
Does anybody know maybe a bit more about Archi, or even the language family it is in, I can only find very little information. 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 2 of 8 28 April 2010 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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The Wikipedia article gives the information that it is a North Caucasian language spoken by just 1,200 Archis in the Southern part of Dagestan. It can't be easy to find material about such a rare language. Edited by Iversen on 28 April 2010 at 1:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5448 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 3 of 8 28 April 2010 at 2:00am | IP Logged | ||
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Here is an Archi-Russian-English dictionary:
http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/archi/linguists/index.aspx I couldn't find much stuff about its grammar yet, though. I wonder if there are any lesson books in Russian on the Archi language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6368 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 8 28 April 2010 at 4:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm. If you wanted to learn Archi, and if you have the time, maybe it would be a good idea to learn Avar or Lezgian first, which, having close to 800,000 speakers each, have the most speakers of any of the North Caucasian languages.
edit: I don't know if there are any resources in these languages to learn Archi, but it's probably one of your best bets. Edited by goosefrabbas on 28 April 2010 at 4:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5448 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 5 of 8 28 April 2010 at 5:05am | IP Logged | ||
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"Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root" - Wikipedia
So the Archis use those 1,502,839 verb forms in daily life? I mean, there aren't even that many words in most of world's languages... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prosaic Diglot Groupie China Joined 5801 days ago 44 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, French Studies: German, Russian, Esperanto, Latin | Message 6 of 8 28 April 2010 at 6:50am | IP Logged | ||
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An introduction to a language often emphasizes its curiosity, which as you observed is not necessarily a great asset in its actual use; though perhaps it can be a moderate asset. Edited by prosaic on 28 April 2010 at 6:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| j0nas Triglot Groupie Norway Joined 5542 days ago 46 posts - 70 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German | Message 7 of 8 28 April 2010 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||
So, could you hook us up with that audio file? I'm intrigued. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6244 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 8 of 8 28 April 2010 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Iversen I read the Wikipedia entry, which is disappointingly scarce, hence the topic :)
I have no interest in learning the language, it just sounds quite special, especially the 1 million possible verb forms, I have no idea how that can work. this is the audio file; http://www.archi.surrey.ac.uk/medved.mp3 1 person has voted this message useful |
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