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by Vijay
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?
by Vijay
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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dhok wrote:My aunt Linda, who lives in Alaska, speaks Yupik.
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.
by Vijay
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! :D

EDIT: Omg, I just realized a whole week later you said "how," not "how long"!
by Vijay
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?
by Vijay
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...
by Vijay
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...
by Vijay
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
by Vijay
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. :mrgreen:
by Vijay
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.
by Vijay
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?
by Vijay
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...