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| judodan Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5847 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, Russian, FrenchB2 Studies: Swedish, Turkish, Polish | Message 241 of 306 14 June 2012 at 3:38am | IP Logged |
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Arabic
Name a language that borrows an abjad writing system and uses it as an alphabet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5290 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 242 of 306 14 June 2012 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
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Uyghur.
Name a language that uses multiple rhotic consonants. What I mean by that is, English has the alveolar approximate, Russian uses the alveolar trill, French and Danish use the voiced uvular fricative, et cetera. Name a language that uses more than one of these rhotic consonants. 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 243 of 306 14 June 2012 at 3:00pm | IP Logged |
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Tamil, although according to Harold Schiffman’s website, “the question of what is a r-like sound, and what is not, is a thorny question in Tamil.”
Name a creole language that is based on a non-European antecedent. (For example, Haitian creole is based on French, so it wouldn’t qualify.) 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 244 of 306 14 June 2012 at 9:38pm | IP Logged |
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Fanakalo - a Creole used among South African Miners, The majority of words are Zulu.
Name a language with use of 'avoidance speech' (extensive avoidance of 'taboo' words). Edited by clumsy on 14 June 2012 at 9:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5290 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 245 of 306 15 June 2012 at 2:16am | IP Logged |
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Bantu languages such as Zulu, and the Dyirbal language of Australia. As a side note,
avoidance speech is used when talking to certain 'taboo' relatives, not to avoid taboo words - polite speakers of most languages will avoid taboo words by using polite or scientific terms, or by not talking about them at all. Name a language that lacks voiced stops. 2 persons have 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 246 of 306 15 June 2012 at 6:40pm | IP Logged |
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Tongan.
Name a language which has four verbs meaning ‘to hunt’ which differ by season (so a different word is used according to whether the hunting takes place in spring, summer, fall or winter.) 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 247 of 306 18 June 2012 at 10:36am | IP Logged |
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(Hint: I have in mind a "dead language", in fact one that is quite archaic. But there may also be languages currently spoken that make this distinction.)
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5047 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 248 of 306 21 June 2012 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
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Where have you learned about this language from?
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