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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!Kung
Name an isolated South Asian language with less than 10,000 speakers.
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vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6974 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese
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Which is the popular trade language spoken daily by many people of two big countries despite the two standard forms of it
The answer is "Hindustani Bazar" spoken by Indians e Pakistanis
The literature standard forms are Hindi and Urdu
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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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Mani wrote:
!Kung
Name an isolated South Asian language with less than 10,000 speakers. |
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Nihali
Name a Sino-Tibetan language written in the Cyrillic script in its standard form.
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Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5082 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans
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Dungan
Name a language without any words for colors.
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Pirahã
Name a medeval metaphysical conlag that was said to be spoken by supernatural beings
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5395 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
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mashmusic11235 wrote:
Name a language which uses a writing system used by no other language (and which isn't Georgian, because the Georgian script is used for other Kartvelian languages). |
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Korean.
Japanese (if you consider it as a whole).
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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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Lingua Ignota?
Name a Sinitic language that is not considered a non standard form of Chinese, by
Chinese government like Cantonese or Minnanese, which are separate languages, but
considered as Chinese by the Chinese government, and people.
Hint: 'white' people speak it.
Edited by clumsy on 13 February 2012 at 9:40pm
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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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Bai [although I think there are still some doubts about whether or not it's actually Sinitic]
Name a living language native to the soil of the French Republic that is neither Indo-European nor Basque.
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