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- 27 Mar 2021 00:20
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Last word you learned in a foreign language
- Replies: 79
- Views: 36848
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
There is a phrase that I learned (orsaka) which means "Excuse me" in Faroese
- 26 May 2020 23:55
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Last word you learned in a foreign language
- Replies: 79
- Views: 36848
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
I learned the French noun "temps," meaning time or weather. I learned this in the French part of the Esperanto book Fundamento de Esperanto. In Esperanto, the corresponding word for time is "tempo."
- 29 Apr 2020 20:59
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Munsee vs Unami
- Replies: 1
- Views: 579
Munsee vs Unami
Hello. I have been studying the Eastern Algonquian languages recently. One language that I have focused on is the Munsee Delaware language, which interests me as it only has two speakers left (both living in Ontario). But when I researched this language, I noticed something that perplexed me. I have...
- 04 Nov 2019 14:02
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Calculating lexical similarities
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1010
Calculating lexical similarities
Hello,
I am interested in calculating lexical similarity between languages and dialects. I wonder what type of mathematics (calculus, algebra, etc.) would be used for these calculations.
Did I put this in the right board? Anyways, thanks for reading this.
I am interested in calculating lexical similarity between languages and dialects. I wonder what type of mathematics (calculus, algebra, etc.) would be used for these calculations.
Did I put this in the right board? Anyways, thanks for reading this.
- 07 Mar 2018 03:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1048325
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What are the differences between a fusional and an agglutinative language? Fusional languages encode multiple meanings in grammatical morphemes, -kio could be present tense, imperfect aspect, conditional mood. Agglutinating languages separate these into multiple morphemes. What else characterizes a...
- 06 Mar 2018 01:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1048325
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What are the differences between a fusional and an agglutinative language?
- 02 Mar 2018 22:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: New language discovered recently in Malaysia.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5893
Re: New language discovered recently in Malaysia.
Given close genealogical connection, geographic continuity, ethnic identity, diglossia and mutual intelligibility, why exactly is this considered a 'new language' suddenly, rather than a series of dialectical features that it seems is only used in code-switching any? Particular when the speaker siz...
- 02 Mar 2018 00:50
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: New language discovered recently in Malaysia.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5893
- 02 Mar 2018 00:26
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: New language discovered recently in Malaysia.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5893
New language discovered recently in Malaysia.
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-language-found-aslian-malaysia-jedek-hunter-gatherers I heard that a language had recently been discovered. It is called Jedediah, which is an Aslian language spoken in Malaysia. The language was discovered by Swedish linguists from Lund University who were document...
- 01 Mar 2018 14:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Wacky theory on Basque.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10794
Re: Wacky theory on Basque.
I do not see a relation to Basque and Etruscan. The Basque language is grouped with Aquitanian and sometimes Iberian in a Vasconic group, and Etruscan is proposed to be part of a Tyrsenian language family along with Lemnian and Rhaetic.