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- Sun Feb 07, 2016 3:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 221343
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Is it a language spoken in Papua New Guinea?
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 1:09 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Yup'ik Thread [Lesson Two, slowly but surely]
- Replies: 21
- Views: 28145
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One of the professors in my alma mater is supposed to be the world's expert on Eskimo languages and used to work on Yupik.dhok wrote:My aunt Linda, who lives in Alaska, speaks Yupik.
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 12:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort to
- Replies: 57
- Views: 13143
Re: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort
Five seconds!
EDIT: Omg, I just realized a whole week later you said "how," not "how long"!
EDIT: Omg, I just realized a whole week later you said "how," not "how long"!
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 12:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 221343
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Is it a language indigenous to the Americas at least?
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort to
- Replies: 57
- Views: 13143
Re: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort
It's cool that you managed to (re)learn it. Thanks! :) I presume you moved. Where you move to? Well, not really. I mean, I was born here in the US and have lived here my whole life, and I have moved between cities in this country, but my parents are native speakers of Malayalam, so they used that w...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 3:12 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
- Replies: 190
- Views: 93252
Re: Bizarre Sound Changes
There's this set of sound changes in Dravidian languages that I've been wondering about for a while now involving nasals. I'm not even sure what the exact progression of the change was, but I get the impression that it went something like this: *nr > ndr > nd (> nd̪?) > n̪d̪ > n̪n̪ > nn In particula...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 12:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
- Replies: 391
- Views: 66114
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I don't generally have preferences regarding languages with the exception that for some reason, I really like listening to the variety of Chatino spoken in the village of San Juan Quiahije in Oaxaca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITZeMliDe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITZeMliDe4
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Mandarin third tone
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2068
Re: Mandarin third tone
I am thrilled to finally meet people who admit that their third tone without sandhi is really just low flat.
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1116380
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
哎呀! 我饿了,可是这个论坛太有意思,我都不愿意离开吃饭! 怎么办? 我一定要先写一些帖子,再去吃饭。
Oh dear! I'm hungry, but this forum is too interesting. I don't even want to leave to eat! What will I do? I'll have to write some posts first and then go eat.
Oh dear! I'm hungry, but this forum is too interesting. I don't even want to leave to eat! What will I do? I'll have to write some posts first and then go eat.
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 221343
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Muscogee?
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 6:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort to
- Replies: 57
- Views: 13143
Re: What foreign language have you dedicated the most effort
Malayalam isn't really a "foreign" language to me; after all, it's the first language I was ever able to speak. Until I was about four years old, I only spoke Malayalam, but then I was suddenly forced to learn English instead. My parents speak Malayalam natively, and I live with them, so I hear it b...