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judodan
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United Kingdom
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 Message 233 of 306
11 June 2012 at 11:21pm | IP Logged 
Kusunda

Name a language with a voiceless velar fricative [ɧ]. The nearest I can describe it is a
soft /kh/ sound pronounced in the front of the mouth.
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Josquin
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Germany
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 Message 234 of 306
11 June 2012 at 11:26pm | IP Logged 
Swedish

Name an ergative language other than Basque or Georgian.
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mashmusic11235
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United States
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Studies: Cantonese

 
 Message 235 of 306
12 June 2012 at 8:07pm | IP Logged 
Tibetan.

Name a language that makes no distinction between adjectives and adverbs.
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Josquin
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 Message 236 of 306
12 June 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged 
German!

Ha, that was easy, because we had to learn in school what's an adverb and how to use them in English.

Name a language with more than 20 vowel sounds (counting long and short vowels as distinct sounds).
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mashmusic11235
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 Message 237 of 306
13 June 2012 at 2:54am | IP Logged 
Taa (or !Xoon).

Name a language that uses colors in the names of its dialects (I'm thinking of one in
particular, but any one will do).


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viedums
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Thailand
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 Message 238 of 306
13 June 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged 
Hmong (White and Green dialects)

Name a language with fewer than 15 adjectives.


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clumsy
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 Message 239 of 306
13 June 2012 at 8:43pm | IP Logged 
Korean?
The true adjectives are archaic like: 옛, 첫, 맏, 새
And their number is limited.
Name a language using 3 different writing systems, two of which only in Church and things like that.

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mashmusic11235
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 Message 240 of 306
14 June 2012 at 3:28am | IP Logged 
Georgian.

Name a language that uses a phoneme unique to that language.


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