mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5513 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
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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 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5080 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
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The Cheyenne Language
Name a language that the only legally official language in at least four countries.
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mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5513 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese
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The Arabic language.
Name a language written with a semanto-phonetic script, that's not a Chinese language.
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egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5710 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
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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 Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6596 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| 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. |
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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 Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6717 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
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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 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5495 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
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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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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5861 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| 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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