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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4457 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes  Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 137 of 306 30 March 2012 at 5:12am | IP Logged | ||
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[QUOTE=vonPeterhof] Speaking of which, both Polish "herbata" and Lithuanian "arbata" derive from the Latin "herba thea", which also makes it a derivative of "te". QUOTE] Just a note - for Lao, WALS gives "nam sa" for tea - since s in Lao often corresponds to ch in Thai, this is clearly another hidden derivative of the Mandarin term ("nam" being water.) WALS is a lot of fun, but if you look closely for a language you know well, you're likely to find a lot of small problems like this one. Edited by viedums on 30 March 2012 at 5:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4859 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 | Message 138 of 306 30 March 2012 at 12:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Brithenig Name a centum language that was never spoken in Europe or Anatolia. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4696 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 139 of 306 30 March 2012 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Tocharian
Name a Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit) language. Edited by Mani on 30 March 2012 at 2:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4457 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 140 of 306 30 March 2012 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pali
Name a language that uses reduplication to mark plurals. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Billy Bob Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5074 days ago 48 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish | Message 141 of 306 30 March 2012 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Malay
Name a tonal language that is in the Afro-Asiatic family. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4859 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 | Message 142 of 306 30 March 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hausa
Name a language with more than two types (long and short) of vowel length. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4969 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 143 of 306 31 March 2012 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Estonian!
That was easy. Name a language of Tai-Kadai languag family that used to be writen in Chinese characters. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4859 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 | Message 144 of 306 31 March 2012 at 1:07am | IP Logged | ||
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(I should have written "besides Estonian"!)
Mulam Name a non-Semitic language in which the word for "girl" clearly is of Semitic origin. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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