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zenmonkey
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 Message 49 of 306
13 February 2012 at 10:31pm | IP Logged 
vonPeterhof wrote:

Name a living language native to the soil of the French Republic that is neither Indo-European nor Basque.


Since the "pays d'outre mer" are Countries of the French Republic, I'm going to go with Marquesan - a non-Indo European language native to the soil of the French Republic, sensu stricto.

Name a language that uses a velar lateral ejective affricate and isn't Zulu.
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 Message 50 of 306
13 February 2012 at 10:36pm | IP Logged 
Arekkusu wrote:
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).

Korean.

Japanese (if you consider it as a whole).


Korean is wrong, as Hangu is used by Cia Cia.
Japanese is wrong, because of Ainu, etc.

I'll stick to Klingon or another Conlang.
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 Message 51 of 306
13 February 2012 at 10:49pm | IP Logged 
zenmonkey wrote:
Arekkusu wrote:
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).

Korean.

Japanese (if you consider it as a whole).


Korean is wrong, as Hangu is used by Cia Cia.
Japanese is wrong, because of Ainu, etc.

I'll stick to Klingon or another Conlang.
I wanted to mention Cia Cia as well, but it looks like they failed to make Hangul fully official for Cia Cia after all - http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/10/10/2011 101001151.html

As for Ainu, Arekkusu explicitly talked about the Japanese writing system as a whole, while Ainu uses only katakana. One could suggest Okinawan, although classical written Okinawan (from the time of the Ryukyuan kingdom) used hardly any katakana and modern Okinawan writing isn't standardized.
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 Message 52 of 306
14 February 2012 at 7:40am | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:
Lingua Ignota?



Wow, I did not know about that one, thanks for bringing it to my realm of awareness! I was thinking of the infamous Enochian!
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 Message 53 of 306
14 February 2012 at 8:09am | IP Logged 
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).

I'd go with Cherokee.

EDIT: Talk about being late for the party. This is what happens when you don't read the entire thread. So sorry, everyone!

Edited by Ari on 14 February 2012 at 8:43am

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 Message 54 of 306
14 February 2012 at 9:50am | IP Logged 
vonPeterhof wrote:
As for Ainu, Arekkusu explicitly talked about the Japanese writing system as a whole, while Ainu uses only katakana. One could suggest Okinawan, although classical written Okinawan (from the time of the Ryukyuan kingdom) used hardly any katakana and modern Okinawan writing isn't standardized.


Okay, consider me sufficiently remorseful to eat one less dried squid covered in chocolate.

Thanks for the details.
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 Message 55 of 306
14 February 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged 
zenmonkey wrote:
Name a language that uses a velar lateral ejective affricate and isn't Zulu.


Archi

Name an American (continent) language that uses pharyngeal consonants.
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 Message 56 of 306
15 February 2012 at 3:50pm | IP Logged 
Montana Salish (according to Wikipedia)

And now we are in that part of the world, could you name a language which according to a strict phonemic analysis only has one vowel (3 if you disregard the lack of phonemic pairs), and which uses this one vowel so sparingly that it just as well could have dropped it completely. Actually the one I'm thinking of also has pharyngal consonants.

Edited by Iversen on 15 February 2012 at 3:51pm



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