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clumsy
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 Message 73 of 306
18 February 2012 at 3:04pm | IP Logged 
Galician! egua !

Name a tonal language, that uses latin script without any diacritics.
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vilas
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 Message 74 of 306
18 February 2012 at 3:36pm | IP Logged 
Name a language that , when you want to reach the speakers, you need to use 3 different scripts.

Answer : Azerbajani ( also named Azeri)
can be written in latin, cyrillic and arabic scripts
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zenmonkey
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 Message 75 of 306
18 February 2012 at 3:59pm | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:
Galician! egua !

Name a tonal language, that uses latin script without any diacritics.


Hmong uses RPA Hmong.

Name a language isolate, spoken only by one person fluently, that requires that you point to your toe to say 10.
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Mauritz
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 Message 76 of 306
19 February 2012 at 11:49am | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:
Galician! egua !

Actually, "egua" means mare and comes from Latin "equa" (which of course is cognate with
"equus"), so it's not a general word for horse. ;)

Edited by Mauritz on 19 February 2012 at 1:28pm

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clumsy
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 Message 77 of 306
19 February 2012 at 4:23pm | IP Logged 
Mauritz wrote:
clumsy wrote:
Galician! egua !

Actually, "egua" means mare and comes from Latin "equa" (which of course is
cognate with
"equus"), so it's not a general word for horse. ;)


Quote:


Name a language (living or dead) in which the word (or at least one word) for "horse"
is
cognate with Latin "equus" and is/was spoken west of Greece.

Because it's "one ofthe words" of horse ! B-D


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 Message 78 of 306
23 February 2012 at 10:47pm | IP Logged 


Quote:


Name a language (living or dead) in which the word (or at least one word) for "horse"
is
cognate with Latin "equus" and is/was spoken west of Greece.

Because it's "one ofthe words" of horse ! B-D

[/QUOTE]

Old English "eoh" is glossed as "warhorse" and is cognate with Latin "equus."

Name a language which exprsses "his" and "her" with the same word/construction.
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 Message 79 of 306
23 February 2012 at 10:53pm | IP Logged 
techguy wrote:
Name a language which exprsses "his" and "her" with the same word/construction.


Spanish.

Name a language written mainly with the latin alphabet that has ejective consonants.
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clumsy
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 Message 80 of 306
24 February 2012 at 1:04am | IP Logged 
answer to question above: Chichewa!
I even tried to learn it.

I think the question of zenmonkey was iverlooked thanks to my posts :(
anyway It's too hard for me to answer.



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