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aldous
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 Message 217 of 306
05 June 2012 at 5:23am | IP Logged 
aldous wrote:
In fact, I don't think any Indo-European languages do this besides English.

Actually I was mistaken. It turns out Sinhala, spoken in Sri Lanka, also does this.

aldous wrote:
Here's a hint: This gender system is a common feature among the members of a particular language family found in Asia.

It looks like people are stumped. The languages I was thinking of are Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil.

Here's a new question to get the thread rolling again. Name an Indo-European language that is written with two different writing systems.
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Ellsworth
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 Message 218 of 306
05 June 2012 at 6:06am | IP Logged 
Old Irish. Ogham and Latin.
(Maybe too easy, but I always think this is cool)
Name an Austronesian language spoken in Africa.

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viedums
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 Message 219 of 306
05 June 2012 at 7:20am | IP Logged 
Malagasy.

Name an Indo-European language where women’s last names have a suffix indicating whether they are married or not.

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aldous
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 Message 220 of 306
08 June 2012 at 4:04am | IP Logged 
Lithuanian

Name a language that is traditionally written upward.
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mashmusic11235
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 Message 221 of 306
08 June 2012 at 6:37am | IP Logged 
Ancient Berber! Texts traditionally started in a bottom corner and ran upwards.

Name the language with the least number of phonemes.
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clumsy
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 Message 222 of 306
08 June 2012 at 11:23pm | IP Logged 
Rotokas - a Papuan language Hawaiian is on high second position.


Name a language mutually intelligible with Zulu other than Xhosa.

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judodan
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 Message 223 of 306
09 June 2012 at 12:54am | IP Logged 
Ndebele (Northern)

Name a language whose name is a palindrome other than Malayalam.

Edited by judodan on 09 June 2012 at 12:54am

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mashmusic11235
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 Message 224 of 306
09 June 2012 at 6:16am | IP Logged 
Kerek (whew!).

I don't know if one exists, but name a language that is official in a country where it is
not native, but NOT official IN the country where it originated.

If one doesn't exist, I have an alternative, easier one: name a language with more than
three numbers (or numbers other than singular, dual, and plural).


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