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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4563 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 169 of 306 14 April 2012 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
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Tagalog
Name a Germanic languge/dialect that isn't native to the town it was (directly or indirectly) named after. 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 170 of 306 23 April 2012 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
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English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeln the letter ɳ (IPA) represents a nasal sound popular in many Indian languages (both Indo European and Dravidian) called Retroflex nasal. Name a language with this sound, being spoken natively outside India. Edited by clumsy on 23 April 2012 at 1:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Malayalam
Name a language with a one-word verb meaning "to strike with the head" that is not cognate with the noun "head" and is used in the context of hitting a soccer ball. (So English wouldn't work on either count, because you "head" the ball, and the verb "to butt" isn't used in soccer for this. Although Z. Zidane does come to mind...) Edited by viedums on 23 April 2012 at 4:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6494 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 172 of 306 23 April 2012 at 10:57am | IP Logged |
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Sorry to mention it, but Angeln is a landscape and not a town. However Limburg is both a town and a landscape, and Limburgisch is the name used for a German dialect or language which in principle still is supposed to exist - and Limburgisch is the only language/dialect name on this table in Wikipedia which refers to a town name. The trouble is that Limburg an der Lahn apparently existed before 1200 when the language (or dialect) in question appeared, and so did the Belgian town Limbourg. Maybe von Peterhof could give us his own solution?*
And while I'm in the cranky corner, Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in Southern India and - except for emigrants - probably not anywhere else. So it can't be used as an answer. However that divine invention Wikipedia as usual solves the problem by pointing towards Vietnamese, Swedish and Norwegian which all belong to places outside India, and Tamil which is spoken natively both in India and on Sri Lanka. However I pass on Viedums' question because soccer/football isn't within my field of competence. * he halfways did while I was editing the text above Edited by Iversen on 23 April 2012 at 11:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4563 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 173 of 306 23 April 2012 at 11:05am | IP Logged |
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Swedish ("nicka" - literally "to nod")
I repeat my previous question, since Angeln isn't a town: Name a Germanic (I'll narrow it down - continental West Germanic) languge/dialect that isn't native to the town it was (directly or indirectly) named after. 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 174 of 306 23 April 2012 at 12:00pm | IP Logged |
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Hm, Vilamovian? (As they claim to be decendants of Dutch settlers.)
Name a language that is now officially written in Devanagari script, but used to be written in Latin script (and some still wish it would be) and before that in Bengali/Assamese script. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4563 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 175 of 306 23 April 2012 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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I would argue that Vilamovian is in fact native to Wilamowice, since that's where it emerged as a separate dialect, but I guess I can accept this. The language I was thinking of was Limburgish - it was named after the Duchy/province of Limburg, which was in turn named after the town of Limbourg, which is a French/Waloon-speaking town.
As for your question, Sanskrit? Name a creole language that has official status, but fewer than a million speakers. Edited by vonPeterhof on 23 April 2012 at 12:14pm 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 176 of 306 23 April 2012 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
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Aha, so Iversen was right with Limburgish.
Answer to your question: Tok Pisin (official in Papua New Guinea, about 122,000 L1 speakers though about 4 million L2 speakers), else I'd go for Pitkern (Pitcairnese) (official along with English on the Pitcairn Islands, about 400 L1 speakers) I wasn't looking for Sanskrit. I'm not sure if Sanskrit even has an "official" script and it was certainly written in Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali and other scripts before written in Latin letters. So I'll repeat my question and give you another hint: Name a non-Indo-Aryan language that is now officially written in Devanagari script, but used to be written in Latin script (and some still wish it would be) and before that in Bengali/Assamese script. Edited by Mani on 23 April 2012 at 1:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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