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jason_polybus
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 Message 161 of 306
08 April 2012 at 2:07am | IP Logged 
Icelandic

Name a language that has at least 3 different native alphabets (i.e. invented by the native speakers themselves).
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 Message 162 of 306
08 April 2012 at 2:49pm | IP Logged 
Georgian - they are called Asomtavruli, Nushkhuri and Mkhedruli.

Name a non-European language where the standard way to negate a verb is to “sandwich” it between two particles, like French “Je ne sais pas.”


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 Message 163 of 306
08 April 2012 at 3:27pm | IP Logged 
I think Burmese and Lepcha!
ma sa: bu = to not eat.
ငါမစားဘူ

I am not eating

name a lanuage that in order to express tense changes version of pronoun.
(there are future tense pronouns, present tense pronouns etc)

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clumsy
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 Message 164 of 306
10 April 2012 at 9:50pm | IP Logged 
the answer is Hausa!
Whjat is the language that uses an alphabet derived from Latin looking like that:

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druckfehler
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 Message 165 of 306
11 April 2012 at 12:43am | IP Logged 
I have no idea, but that looks cool!
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mashmusic11235
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 Message 166 of 306
11 April 2012 at 5:34am | IP Logged 
Cherokee. Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee syllabary, got ahold of an English book,
but didn't know how to read it or in which direction it was supposed to go.

Name a language that expresses undetermined gender (that is, "one must always keep in
mind one's surroundings" or "whoever that person is, he or she is crazy").
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clumsy
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 Message 167 of 306
11 April 2012 at 11:52am | IP Logged 
druckfehler wrote:
I have no idea, but that looks cool!

THe answer is Lisu!
It was devised by a Christian Missionary.
hmm, I actually just wanted to show it.
I think Chinese minority languages can be really fascinating.
THe language is in Yi-Burmese language group I think.
Actually it's an abudiga and not an alphabet, or so I think, as the letter 'a' is the default vowel. M.M. = ma.ma.
the dots represent tones (I don't know how to read it of course)
but let's accept the CHerokee answer as well, since it's based on Latin as well.

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 Message 168 of 306
14 April 2012 at 12:43pm | IP Logged 
My answer to the question above is: Turkish, no difference between she and he.



Name an Asian Language with dual pronouns.



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