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mashmusic11235
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 Message 1 of 306
10 February 2012 at 4:52am | IP Logged 
This game is called "Name a Language that Fits the Criterion," and it's meant to be a test of your knowledge of languages ;)

The first person says "name a language that ____," and replaces the blank with a criterion, such as "has SOV word order," or "has at least one 'difficult' sound," or "is a language isolate." The next poster would give a language that fits the criterion, and then post their own "name a language that ____."

I'll start:

Name a language that has less than 10,000 native speakers.
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Kartof
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 Message 2 of 306
10 February 2012 at 5:54am | IP Logged 
The Cheyenne Language

Name a language that the only legally official language in at least four countries.
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mashmusic11235
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 Message 3 of 306
10 February 2012 at 6:39am | IP Logged 
The Arabic language.

Name a language written with a semanto-phonetic script, that's not a Chinese language.
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egill
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 Message 4 of 306
10 February 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged 
The Akkadian Language.

Name a language that used to be written in a mixture of Latin, Cyrillic, and IPA, and
prior to that was written in a semanto-phonetic script.
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Ari
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 Message 5 of 306
10 February 2012 at 7:17am | IP Logged 
mashmusic11235 wrote:
Name a language written with a semanto-phonetic script, that's not a Chinese language.

Mayan

Name a language written in a mixture of two or more different writing systems, that's not Japanese.

Edited by Ari on 10 February 2012 at 7:18am

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Iversen
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 Message 6 of 306
10 February 2012 at 9:52am | IP Logged 
Serbian - half texts on the internet are written in Cyrillic, the other half in Romance letters, and some in a mixture.

Name a language which has a real living dual
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ruskivyetr
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 Message 7 of 306
10 February 2012 at 10:00am | IP Logged 
Modern Standard Arabic.
The dual is still used surprisingly, at least that's what it says in Living Language Ultimate Arabic.

Name a language with diglossia (excluding Arabic you cheaters ;).
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 Message 8 of 306
10 February 2012 at 10:06am | IP Logged 
I don't know what exactly "diglossia" means.

DEF: "In sociolinguistics, diglossia is a situation in which two distinct varieties of a language are spoken within the same speech community."

But as I researched with Google, I would say that Norway has diglossia with Bokmâl and Nynorsk.

Name a language which uses the tense "Aorist".

Fasulye



Edited by Fasulye on 11 February 2012 at 6:04am



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