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| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6111 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 41 of 86 12 January 2009 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Not unique, and not perhaps proper linguistics (?), but
Italian: gesticulating :D Finnish: speaking while inspirating (aspirating?). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| obara Newbie India subramanian-obula.blRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5968 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes Studies: Gujarati | Message 43 of 86 13 January 2009 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Sourashtra Language, nasal is aspirated.
na and nha. Other consonants aspirated are mha, rha and lha. These sounds are not available in other Indo-Aryan Languages. I would like know know whether these sounds are available in any other language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Satoshi Diglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5825 days ago 215 posts - 224 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 44 of 86 13 January 2009 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think Russian may be the language with the most palatalized consonants.
I did some counting: in Brazilian Portuguese there are 7 palatalized consonants (unless I made a mistake somewhere). -- I find Portuguese rather beautiful. It is economic where it needs to be, but not so much as most sentences being comprised only of a verb (like sometimes it happens to Japanese). But one thing I do not like is the lack of expression capability. In English you can make statements drawing upon the listener's previous knowledge, and usually you can insert comments and things unrelated to the main subject and be understood. People usually look funny at me when I try to say things in a more complex way, and will be lost a lot of times whereas a English-speaker would understand it perfectly well if I make comments or change subject midway through what I am saying. This obviously has to do with the literacy of who I am talking to, but I've found that the usual directness of speech will normally make people less apt to comprehend long or roundabout or complex sentences in Portuguese. This does not, however, apply to writing. And outside Portuguese, I find Japanese to be quite unique when it comes to the way they make words sound like. They may suddenly speak very very nasal in a way that would make me sound like a run-out-of-the-mill street tranvestite if I were to use it in Portuguese. But it sounds great in Japanese. They will also prolong a syllable for forever (Arigatoooooooooo~). Sometimes the voice will get harsh and rough, or drop into a very low register and sometimes they will say things very un-loudly, barely audible at all. They also will ascend into a very high register towards the end of the sentence depending on the feeling they may want to communicate, and both genders do it, though male will almost always go nasal when doing it. The cuteness of the culture also translates into speech, with Japanese small girls being the epitome of cuteness when speaking. I am serious, no other kid will be as cute as a japanese one. Never. On the whole, they look like they are singing when speaking. It is very nice. On the other hand, Portuguese is more monotonal, comparatively. The way I speak (very tone-rich, but not in the Japanese way) will very often make people wonder whether my voice is failing due to puberty (I look way younger than I am). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6005 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 45 of 86 14 January 2009 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Not so fast, Sennin. I love Swedish too and fully intend to study it seriously one day, and for a long, LOOOONG time I've wanted to go there (and visit the family, ja?), but really, it's just as correct to say Swedish is the language spoken by the Vikings as it is to say Spanish is the language spoken by the Romans. Swedish certainly descends from the language of the undoubtedly glorious Vikings, but no Viking would have any idea what you were talking about if you tried to speak Swedish to them. Now, if you're going for the language of the Vikings, the best you can go as far as living languages is Icelandic. I've quoted this way too many times, on the internet and in real life, but it's not uncommon for Icelandic school children to read the Eddas in the original Old Norse, without too much difficulty, either, due to the relatively small amount of change from Old Norse to Icelandic. Although, other than this small inaccuracy, I couldn't agree with you more. Although I'm currently learning Icelandic, one of my reasons for doing so is to make it much easier to learn Swedish later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6036 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 46 of 86 15 January 2009 at 1:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm... Actually, cordelia0507 wrote this, not I ;p.
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| kishi2009 Newbie China Joined 5794 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 47 of 86 15 January 2009 at 2:42am | IP Logged | ||
Absolutely!Unique! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kishi2009 Newbie China Joined 5794 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 48 of 86 15 January 2009 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I think that English bears the magic. At the sight or at the ear of the English,I will feel excited.Maybe because I am an English major.
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