Tell me something interesting about your native language

Not really. In official matters, on television and anywhere else in public matters, standard Slovene is used - the language that was first created by a Protestant author Primož Trubar in 1550 and was worked on through the centuries. It was created so all Slovenes could understand each other, since dialects are so diverse. Dialects were often seen as something for the common folk. These days, the standard Slovene on television is more and more being influenced by the Central Slovene koine, the mixed speech of what used to be Carniola (there's also a mixed speech of the Littoral and of Styria; the formation was based on historical borders, interestingly enough).

There are many words to say "bean" in spanish. Beaners use just one of them.

Slavic literacy started from my language.

bulgaria?

Ye

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic#First_Bulgarian_Empire

SomalI is one of the three remaining Hamitic tongues, and is mutually intelligible with Ancient Egyptian due to the conservatism of these tongues.

Literally no other language can be traced to it on the family tree. Finnish is a stretch and both Khanty & Mansi are essentially dead languages.

>Tell me something interesting about your native language.
Unlike most romance languages, venetian doesn't show any sign of a weakening of the subjunctive mood in colloquial speech. Apparently the whole language is remarkably conservative and unchanged by the centuries.
Is that interesting? I don't know jack about linguistics.

>is mutually intelligible with Ancient Egyptian due to the conservatism of these tongues.
O rly? So Somali has not changed in the last, what, three millenia? I find this hard to believe. Please sauce on this user.

Also long live glorious nation of Somaliland

>Hellas Verona
>serie b
Vaffanculo

Fuck you, you still have Chievo. My city's team is still in Lega Pro.

>Somaliland

I'm a loyalist boy. Don't bring those traitors up to me.

>voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/22/uncovering-the-origins-of-ancient-egypt/

>sayidka.blogspot.com/2006/01/land-of-gods-brief-study-of-somali.html?m=1

>still in Lega Pro
Lol

>loyalist
Loyal to what? Your country is a fiction. And it has been for 25 years. More than enough time to realize that it is useless to pretend to unify it. Give independence plis.

Thanks for the links user

>Somalia is a fiction

>Says the somalilander

More real than the """""Republic""""" of Hargaisa.

>somalilander
LOL

From the outside, Somaliland looks like a state, which Somalia has not been for the last quarter of a century. I might be wrong about the former but i'm certainly right about the latter. Shit trolling aside, hope your country can become a country again user.

How many kanguages do you speak, btw?

>implying Glagolitic and Slavic literacy didnt started in Moravia in Czech Republic

>somalia is brought up
>nationalistic shitflinging ensues
Every fucking time on every fucking board. You'd think the whole country is on Veeky Forums 24/7.

Which dialect does the Marxist Memelord speak?

From what I've heard of it, Somalia is basically real-world Veeky Forums.

>mutually intelligible with ancient egyptian

HOL UP

I don't know for sure, but considering he is from the capital, he probably speaks the form of urban speech spoken there.

It requires a dummy auxiliary verb to form negations and questions.

>prestige dialect

I don't think this is a thing outside of Anglo countries.

>I don't think this is a thing outside of Anglo countries.
It kinda is when you consider that most recently standardized languages have adopted the prestige dialect as standard. Tho you could argue that since they've been standardized such dialect is not dialect anymore.

Standard is not prestige.

Can someone tell me about the Georgian language? Why is it the only language in it's area to have it's own language family? What's with the cool ayy lmao script?

Pidgin languages were developed by Basque whalers and their trading partners during the Early Modern Era, and some of their vocabulary has survived:
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian–Basque_pidgin
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque–Icelandic_pidgin

The Slovene official (literary) language was created as a mix of dialects that would serve as a language for all Slovenes to communicate in. The basis for the language were the Upper Carniolan and Lower Carniolan dialects since Carniola was (and, truth be told, still is) the centre of the nation.

Pic related: the first book in (early) standard Slovene.

Sami?

Albanian has a lot of cognates for an isolated language

Irish has the exact same sound

PIE *w is /f/ in Irish. e.g. Irish 'fear', 'man' vs the first part of English 'werewolf'

Literally the shittiest graphology to morphology ever

"Dress" is a masculine noun for some reason.

incorrect, it is very related to hungarian/magyar.

English doesn't have genders, though.

Words without vowels

Yaktabushi language from the DMT realm is purely visual. I execute it on a daily basis with my magical elves.

jabba jabba mohammed jihad

Ten gorillion dialects despite a tiny population and area.

That is Slovenia. I think you wanted post Slovakia.

Someone already posted Sorbia , lad.

What

Considered one of the two most archaic Indo-European languages, while also being among the last to be attested.

Believed to retain features not found anywhere else apart from PTE.

Has some dubious similarities with Sanskrit. If you cherry-pick the vocabulary enough.

The language has seven cases.

We used to have another letter in the alphabet, Ŗ, which was eradicated by the Soviets because they found its use as impending to their nefarious purposes. Somehow.

Sorbs and White Croats
i always confuse them

>what is classical latin as opposed to vulgar latin?

it is a flective language, but not actually in the nouns. it outsourced the flection to articles which are the only way to tell the cases for most verbs.

Lithuanian?

My dialect conjugates Yes and No, I never really heard about other languages/dialects doing this. It seems really weird tho.

There is no word for yes or no in the language, to answer a question in a positive or negative manner, you must reply with the positive or negative affirmation

an bhfuil tú go maith inniu? are you well today?

Tá me. I am

Níl me. I am not

how does it feel to be a light in the dark, to carry the torch of a minority/ regional language?

people like you are the reason i manage to get out of bed. it probably wasnt your choice but fighting language death is fighting cultural entropy. keep rocking your gaelic, son.

go raibh maith agat

The sad truth is every Irish person in the country learns the language for 14 years of their life at the very least, no matter what part of the country they're in and takes two state examinations in it, it is compulsory to learn the Irish language and it is has been since the states inception. Yet, few can speak it for a variety of factors, it's taught very poorly in schools.

youtube.com/watch?v=qA0a62wmd1A

I'll never stop, in a world faced with globalization and things like TTIP where national identity is being destroyed for profit, it's more important to hold on to your history and cultural identity than ever

>My dialect conjugates Yes and No

Uhh.. our word order is essentially nonexistant?

Nedersaksies or Limburgs?

That's because there's a huge difference between learning a language as a mother tongue at an early age and learning it in school (at an age when knowledge and learning are dismissed as negative).

English has one word that is gendered, blond when refering to a man, and blonde for when refering to a man

>English has one word that is gendered, blond when refering to a man, and blonde for when refering to a man

cheeki breeki

tl;dr anglos are gay

In our language, double negations are the norm in written form, but people have the habit to drop the first one when they speak.

french

We use some words(church, for example) that were outdated in latin even by the time Nicaea happened.

Correct, user.

English is the only language to have a distinction between "a/an" and "the". Other language have to use "one" instead (which is ofc where "a/an" evolved from).

>an is a retarded way to pronouce one

Nice, I never realised this

Hebrew has a weird word that I think only exists in it that I don't know how to explain without just quoting wikipedia.

>In Hebrew there is a specific preposition (את et) for direct objects that would not have a preposition marker in English. The English phrase "he ate the cake" would in Hebrew be הוא אכל את העוגה hu akhal et ha'ugah (literally, "He ate את the cake").

Or not use such a word at all

funnily enough, the sign of negation that is most used today, "pas", was just part of a phrase that originally meant "not one bit more/not one step further" but the language evolved to the point where the original sign of negation, "ne", has almost disappeared in informal speech. "Pas" is an absurdity etymologically speaking
Language evolution is really interesting.

I know what you mean but most languages that have articles do make the distinction between definite and indefinite articles (The/A). It's also worthy of noting that "the" and "this" come from the same old english word. (and "a" has become the norm when, as you pointed it out, it used to be *ân)

Hebrew?
אין סדר-מילים בעברית
אין בעברית סדר-מילים
בעברית אין סדר-מילים
בעברית סדר-מילים אין
סדר-מילים אין בעברית
סדר-מילים בעברית אין

>tfw "Je suis pas blond" (I'm not blonde) is litteraly "I am step blonde"

>Hi, I'm your new step-blonde, you can call me mom if you want

my language is the most widely-spoken non-indo-european language in Europe.

>people write about their language but don't actually mention what language it is

You're all communicating in my native language :(

However, I'm learning Old English, which has an interesting 3rd grammatical number, which is dual.

Dual pronouns (wit & git (pronounced yit)) refer to 'we two' and 'you two'. Alas, I can't remember the case conjugations for them yet.

Also, Old English - like most Germanic languages - placed hundred at 120, due to being dozenal; however, during the mid-late Anglecynn period, the hundred was changed from 120 to 80, similar to developments in Denmark. However again, hundred can also be found to be placed at 70, 90, and 100 in the same period. Mathematics were twatted.

If you can't translate an English phrase you can literally just bullshit and people will interpret it pretty correctly.
An example:
"Ait bhradach" would literally translate to "Pirate place", but because of the bullshitting rule it's always interpreted in the poem it's used in as "A place that only takes and gives nothing"
t. Irishman

The use of regional languages in France was severely curtailed during the WW1 period and they were nearly destroyed. There's an apocryphal account that several Corsican soldiers were executed for not understanding orders in standard French.

Could you explain this in a bit more detail?

Magyar?

5 points to Gryffindor

Spanish?

It has it's own handwriting isn't really similar to many languages(only four actually, from which three are dialects), and is one of those languages which didn't alter much over the years and it's people sticked to it quite well...
ნიუფეგებო.

Tagalog and other Filipino Languages are autistic about rice.
>Rice plant
Palay
>Harvested Rice/Rice Grain
Bigas
>Rice being washed & cooked in a pot
Saing
>Rice that's done cooking and ready to be eaten.
Kanin.

You didn't write Spanish in the original post.

youtube.com/watch?v=i8a3gjt_Ar0

basque?

Persian has no gender when referring to others. I can't explain it (never studied grammar or linguistics) but we don't say he or she, it simply doesn't exist in the language.

It/they/them.

Nouns and pronouns do not have grammatical gender, but nouns and adjectives decline in fourteen cases: nominative, genitive, partitive, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative, terminative, essive, abessive, and comitative, with the case and number of the adjective(s) always agreeing with that of the noun (except in the terminative, essive, abessive and comitative, where there is agreement only for the number, the adjective being in the genitive form).

Meh.

can any Spanish speakers help me with something? My spanish totally sucks as you will see from the questions.

I get that nouns are gendered like they are in all the romance languages; masculine ends in O, feminine in A. it seems ridiculous, but w/e

my question is, the Spanish word for "penis" or "dick" (not sure if it's considered vulgar) is "verga." There could not possibly be a more masculine noun. 1) why does it end in A, and 2) is it an exception or is it actually feminine gendered i.e. do I say "la verga" or "el verga"?

if "la verga" is correct, I guess 3) would be why the fuck did this state of affairs come to pass?

the use of "mariposa" (butterfly) to mean "faggot" is similarly confusing. I get that it's derisively calling the dude a woman, but should i say "el mariposa" or "la mariposa"? like, is a fag totally feminized? would I say the Spanish equivalent of "she went to her house" when speaking of a mariposa or is it OK for all the other words not to agree with the A-ending of the noun since it's understood he's actually a dude?