Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4919 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish
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Sanskrit.
Name a language a non-Asian language that uses an abugida (=syllabic alphabet).
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vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4786 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish
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Inuktitut.
Name a non-Germanic language that has V2 word order.
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5192 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
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O'odham
Name a language that has more speakers outside the country of origin (independent),
than inside it.
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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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ENGLISH!
What about a European language with retroflex consonants?
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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
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Iversen wrote:
What about a European language with retroflex consonants? |
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SWEDISH!
Give me a language that has words without vowels.
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4702 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
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Ari wrote:
Iversen wrote:
What about a European language with retroflex consonants? |
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SWEDISH!
Give me a language that has words without vowels. |
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Czech.
Give me a language spoken natively by less than 10% of the population in a country where it is the most privileged language by law.
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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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Irish
Name a language that isn't official in any country with more than 10 million native speakers.
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vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4786 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish
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Javanese
Name a language whose name in English has no etymological connection to its native name.
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