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akprocks
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 Message 89 of 306
25 February 2012 at 11:16pm | IP Logged 
mashmusic11235 wrote:
The Eskimo-Aleut languages, which are spoken in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia. These languages are thought to have come to the Americas when part of the Bering Sea was frozen during the last Ice Age.



Actually I was thinking of Ket in the proposed Dené–Yeniseian family, but that works too
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 Message 90 of 306
05 March 2012 at 5:09pm | IP Logged 
Kartof wrote:
Name a language that's relatively homogenous, yet with no standardized official form.


English

Name a language whose name is a palindrome
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 Message 91 of 306
05 March 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
Kartof wrote:
Name a language that's relatively homogenous, yet with no standardized official form.


English

Name a language whose name is a palindrome

Malayalam! Man, I went through every combination before I found it!

Edited by Arekkusu on 05 March 2012 at 6:13pm

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 Message 92 of 306
05 March 2012 at 8:26pm | IP Logged 
And what is your challenge?
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 Message 93 of 306
05 March 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
And what is your challenge?

Sorry, I was so excited to find the answer that I don't have a question... Can anyone else post one?
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 Message 94 of 306
05 March 2012 at 8:48pm | IP Logged 
Here's another palindrome language name - Tat

Name a sign language that has official status in its country.
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 Message 95 of 306
11 March 2012 at 3:13pm | IP Logged 
It's New Zealandic Sign language !


I think auslan?


Name a language with people using its own original script, but with less than 100 000 speakers.
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 Message 96 of 306
11 March 2012 at 4:22pm | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:
Name a language with people using its own original script, but with less than 100 000 speakers.

Cherokee.

Here's a tough one; I wonder if there are more than the one I know of, because that one might be hard to find.
Nevertheless:

Name a language whose name translates as "human speech".


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