NS and Language

[Camelza]

But geography is totally insignificant when it comes to languages! <:U

I kno rite. :/

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

Other. ...it's always placed in "Other Indo-European languages" along with Armenian and Albanian.


But geography is totally insignificant when it comes to languages! <:U

I agree with you, but with 76 votes already, it's too late.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
Turkic
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

[Maltropia]

I speak Irish and have a good grasp of Latin, can still understand German and have some French, which my Spanish briefly overtook.

[Sassinia]

I kno rite. :/

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

I agree with you, but with 76 votes already, it's too late.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
African(Bantu, Khoe)
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

Hindi, and Bengali.

[Horusland]

I kno rite. :/

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

I agree with you, but with 76 votes already, it's too late.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
African(Bantu, Khoe)
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

I don't think the Uralic one is right, but except that, I agree.
And Basque is related to Arab and Hebrew? Well. That explains why I like it. O.o

And where is the ''other'' option? For languages like Esperanto, or anything else that can't go on there?

[Camelza]

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
African(Bantu, Khoe)
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

Hindi, and Bengali.

Hindi and Bengali are like Dutch and German ...they should be included, yes.

[Sassinia]

Hindi, and Bengali.

Hindi and Bengali are like Dutch and German ...they should be included, yes.

Not exactly. I know and speak Bengali fluently but can only understand a fraction of Hindi (Well, maybe a bit more). They have significant differences, different scripts, ways of speaking, etc.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

I've got my snazzy Old English dictionary here.

Word order is pretty flexible due to the case system (like Latin), but I just stick to S-V-O most of the time like in Modern English.

How about questions (are/do/will you + verb) or adjectives/adverbs?

"Do" doesn't really exist in OE as it does in ME: in ME, you can use "do" as an auxiliary like in "do you eat food?", but no such use existed in OE. Instead, they'd just invert the verb and subject to make it a question (like in German), like so: "iteest þu fodan?" or literally "eat you food?"

They didn't have a future tense (and thus no "will"), and would instead infer the future using various means.

Adjectives and adverbs worked the same as in Modern English, but they'd have to be inflected for case. The ME adverb ending "ly" (quickly, carefully) comes from the adverb ending "lic" (pronounced "leech") in OE.

[Thafoo]

No habla English, and I speak Vietnamese and Indonesian.

Yes, of course I speak English, in case someone actually thinks that I don't speako-Englees.

[Camelza]

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
African(Bantu, Khoe)
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

I don't think the Uralic one is right, but except that, I agree.

Ah, yes ..you see I always get confused that the Balts are Finnish due to Estonia ...I know the baltic languages are not Uralic, my bad.

And Basque is related to Arab and Hebrew? Well. That explains why I like it. O.o

It's not certain ..some believe it's derived from Carthagenian(a Semitic language) ...others say it's older than that(therefore not semitic).

And where is the ''other'' option? For languages like Esperanto, or anything else that can't go on there?

No one cares about Esperanto.

[Horusland]

How about questions (are/do/will you + verb) or adjectives/adverbs?

"Do" doesn't really exist in OE as it does in ME: in ME, you can use "do" as an auxiliary like in "do you eat food?", but no such use existed in OE. Instead, they'd just invert the verb and subject to make it a question (like in German), like so: "iteest þu fodan?" or literally "eat you food?"

They didn't have a future tense (and thus no "will"), and would instead infer the future using various means.

Adjectives and adverbs worked the same as in Modern English, but they'd have to be inflected for case. The ME adverb ending "ly" (quickly, carefully) comes from the adverb ending "lic" (pronounced "leech") in OE.

Wow. Thanks.
I don't get how you can refer to the future without a future tense.

[Camelza]

Hindi and Bengali are like Dutch and German ...they should be included, yes.

Not exactly. I know and speak Bengali fluently but can only understand a fraction of Hindi (Well, maybe a bit more). They have significant differences, different scripts, ways of speaking, etc.

As do Dutch and German.

[Immoren]

Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)

Baltic? Latvian and Lithuanian aren't part of Uralic languages.

[Sassinia]

Not exactly. I know and speak Bengali fluently but can only understand a fraction of Hindi (Well, maybe a bit more). They have significant differences, different scripts, ways of speaking, etc.

As do Dutch and German.

I don't think they have different scripts, do they?

Assamese and Bengali, however, are like twins.

[Horusland]

I don't think the Uralic one is right, but except that, I agree.

Ah, yes ..you see I always get confused that the Balts are Finnish due to Estonia ...I know the baltic languages are not Uralic, my bad.

And Basque is related to Arab and Hebrew? Well. That explains why I like it. O.o

It's not certain ..some believe it's derived from Carthagenian(a Semitic language) ...others say it's older than that(therefore not semitic).

And where is the ''other'' option? For languages like Esperanto, or anything else that can't go on there?

No one cares about Esperanto.

Okay.
Your poll is very good, then. And maybe in a few months, I'll remake this thread. With this poll. So, thanks.
Languages are a subject I really like. And in the future poll, I will only change one thing. I'll put HorusLandian in there as a joke.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

I kno rite. :/

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

I agree with you, but with 76 votes already, it's too late.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
Turkic
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

Japanese and Korean shouldn't be grouped together.

[Camelza]

Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)

Baltic? Latvian and Lithuanian aren't part of Uralic languages.

My bad ...I should change it to Estonian. :3

[The Kingdom Of Griffins with Swords]

English and German

[Horusland]

Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)

Baltic? Latvian and Lithuanian aren't part of Uralic languages.

You can't put all of those together in one option without a name. Do all these have a common name?

[The Blaatschapen]

Baltic? Latvian and Lithuanian aren't part of Uralic languages.

You can't put all of those together in one option without a name. Do all these have a common name?

Gibberish.

[Camelza]

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
Turkic
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

Japanese and Korean shouldn't be grouped together.

They belong to the same linguistic group ...French and Romanian are pretty different languages but I still grouped them together.

[Immoren]

Baltic? Latvian and Lithuanian aren't part of Uralic languages.

My bad ...I should change it to Estonian. :3

Helpful map of Uralic languages.

[Horusland]

Austronesians (Indonesia, Madagascar, Cambodge, Polynesia) don't even get a mention.

I know, but if there is another poll in the future It should look like that:
Germanic(English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)
Chinese(Mandarin, Wu, Min)
Japanese-Korean
Latin(Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Semitic(Arab, Hebrew, Maltese, Basque)
Slavic(Polish, Russian, South Slavic)
Uralic(Finnish, Hungarian, Baltic)
Austronesian(Malagasy, Malay, Khmer, Aboriginal, Polynesian)
Turkic
Other Indo-European(Persian, Armenian, Albanian, Greek, Hindi).

Japanese and Korean shouldn't be grouped together.

We can group Eastern Asian languages together, Merge the two with Chinese languages, and split another option in two.
Also, Icelandic should be put in the German option. Iceland is not a part of Scandinavia.

[Horusland]

My bad ...I should change it to Estonian. :3

Helpful map of Uralic languages.

What is the difference between Saami, Finnish, and Karelian? Are they very close, like Dutch and German?

[Camelza]

My bad ...I should change it to Estonian. :3

Helpful map of Uralic languages.

This is the map that confused me since I noticed Estonia (a baltic nation) was inside the Uralic family.

Ah, yes ..you see I always get confused that the Balts are Finnish due to Estonia ...I know the baltic languages are not Uralic, my bad.

It's not certain ..some believe it's derived from Carthagenian(a Semitic language) ...others say it's older than that(therefore not semitic).

No one cares about Esperanto.

Okay.
Your poll is very good, then. And maybe in a few months, I'll remake this thread. With this poll. So, thanks.
Languages are a subject I really like. And in the future poll, I will only change one thing. I'll put HorusLandian in there as a joke.

Do it! :3

[Horusland]

You can't put all of those together in one option without a name. Do all these have a common name?

Gibberish.

Don't insult my favorite language!

That's Finnish, btw.