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What was the first language you learned fluently?

Mandarin
4
1%
English
168
60%
French
10
4%
German
8
3%
Russian
6
2%
Portuguese
10
4%
Malay
3
1%
Hindi
2
1%
Afrikaans
3
1%
Other (Specify)
66
24%
 
Total votes : 280

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Cheri
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Postby Cheri » Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:44 pm

English.
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Hopeless
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Postby Hopeless » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:09 pm

Scholencia wrote:
Hopeless wrote:Latin branched into two main lines, those led eventually to Germanic and Romantic languages, it is a very extensive example, but after 350 years and a geographic difference of a few thousand kilometres with influences from sources like the British, Portuguese and Malaysian slaves the language changed quite a bit, i will however not get into the masses of spelling differences and expression differences, reading and writing is still relatively understandable, speaking it is the main divide in Afrikaans and Dutch

There is no Afrikaner language or etnicity, they are all Dutch diaspora and speaking a dutch dialect.

Um actually majority of the whites who came here originally were German, also check previous mass of information in other answers from myself and other people to see the correct answer :)

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New haven america
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Postby New haven america » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:12 pm

English.
Though I'm surprised it wasn't spanish, my mom used to yell at me in it. :P
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Neo-Latin Rome
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Postby Neo-Latin Rome » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:31 pm

New haven america wrote:English.
Though I'm surprised it wasn't spanish, my mom used to yell at me in it. :P


Perhaps you've repressed it? :p
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Caninope
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Postby Caninope » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:46 am

English.

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New federation janistan
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Postby New federation janistan » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:06 am

finnish
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Postby Neo-Assyrian Empire » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:09 am

English. I speak it as a first language.

However, I am learning French
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Axonic
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Postby Axonic » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:09 am

Donde Es Espanol?
(Born Speaking English, I Have Recently Learned Spanish.)
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Llama City One
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Postby Llama City One » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:15 am

As an American with French and Russian ancestry, I'm fluent in English, French and Russian but I'll have to say English.
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America Libertaria
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Postby America Libertaria » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:19 am

I speak American, what is this English you speak of?

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Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro
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Postby Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:29 am

Axonic wrote:Donde Es Espanol?
(Born Speaking English, I Have Recently Learned Spanish.)

*¿Dónde está la [lengua] española?
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Immoren
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Postby Immoren » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:40 am

Olthar wrote:Elvish.


Which one? :p
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Vazdania
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Postby Vazdania » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:53 am

HappyShark wrote:Sicilian dialect

I dislike the Sicilian dialect! D: You guys sound weird!!!
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Postby Vazdania » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:54 am

Axonic wrote:Donde Es Espanol?
(Born Speaking English, I Have Recently Learned Spanish.)

Spanish is a gross language. Ew.
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Postby Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:01 am

Vazdania wrote:Spanish is a gross language. Ew.

I tend to feel hungry when close to things I don't feel disgust but most other people tend to, and no language makes me more or less hungry. :meh: :unsure:

Some Anglophone people say Dutch is disgusting but I find it hot.
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Iuronia
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Postby Iuronia » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:47 am

Vazdania wrote:
HappyShark wrote:Sicilian dialect

I dislike the Sicilian dialect! D: You guys sound weird!!!

Isn't it an actual separate language, though?
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:07 pm

Axonic wrote:Donde Es Espanol?
(Born Speaking English, I Have Recently Learned Spanish.)


Donde esta la opcion para espanol? No sabemos. No fue incluida. ;)
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:08 pm

Vazdania wrote:
Axonic wrote:Donde Es Espanol?
(Born Speaking English, I Have Recently Learned Spanish.)

Spanish is a gross language. Ew.


By that logic, so is Italian.
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Nightkill the Emperor
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:09 pm

I'm the only person to have voted Hindi on the poll.

I feel special.
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:11 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I'm the only person to have voted Hindi on the poll.

I feel special.


How many different dialects and languages are concentrated under the umbrella term of Hindi?
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Charaxlandistan
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Postby Charaxlandistan » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:12 pm

Spanish was an interesting omission from that list.

English.

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Nightkill the Emperor
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:17 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I'm the only person to have voted Hindi on the poll.

I feel special.


How many different dialects and languages are concentrated under the umbrella term of Hindi?

Many. Some of them can be hardly comprehensible. Most people don't speak standard Hindi, but rather their regional dialect. There is a standard register called Shuddh (pure) Hindi, which is based heavily off Sanskrit and with as little Persian, Arabic, English, Portuguese, etc. as possible, but nobody uses it as a native language. The government writes its messages like this.

Nowadays most Hindi-speakers use Hinglish to communicate, and mass communications has somewhat standardised the language better than the government ever did.
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The balkens wrote:
# went there....

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:20 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
How many different dialects and languages are concentrated under the umbrella term of Hindi?

Many. Some of them can be hardly comprehensible. Most people don't speak standard Hindi, but rather their regional dialect. There is a standard register called Shuddh (pure) Hindi, which is based heavily off Sanskrit and with as little Persian, Arabic, English, Portuguese, etc. as possible, but nobody uses it as a native language. The government writes its messages like this.

Nowadays most Hindi-speakers use Hinglish to communicate, and mass communications has somewhat standardised the language better than the government ever did.


Yeah, that's what I thought.

I was reading not that long ago about the Holy Tooth of Buddha in Sri Lanka and one thing that was discussed was this extensive umbrella term the Brits created regarding all things Hindu. It's a ton of stuff. So so much.

I think I remember you telling me about the prevalence of Hinglish in modern Indian music.
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Nightkill the Emperor
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:21 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Many. Some of them can be hardly comprehensible. Most people don't speak standard Hindi, but rather their regional dialect. There is a standard register called Shuddh (pure) Hindi, which is based heavily off Sanskrit and with as little Persian, Arabic, English, Portuguese, etc. as possible, but nobody uses it as a native language. The government writes its messages like this.

Nowadays most Hindi-speakers use Hinglish to communicate, and mass communications has somewhat standardised the language better than the government ever did.


Yeah, that's what I thought.

I was reading not that long ago about the Holy Tooth of Buddha in Sri Lanka and one thing that was discussed was this extensive umbrella term the Brits created regarding all things Hindu. It's a ton of stuff. So so much.

I think I remember you telling me about the prevalence of Hinglish in modern Indian music.

It's absolutely everywhere. So is Punjablish, Tamlish, etc. English vocabulary is very popular nowadays, and we take a lot of loan words.
Hi! I'm Khan, your local misanthropic Indian.
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Tiami is cool.
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".

Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.

Monfrox wrote:
The balkens wrote:
# went there....

It's Nightkill. He's been there so long he rents out rooms to other people at a flat rate, but demands cash up front.

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:23 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Yeah, that's what I thought.

I was reading not that long ago about the Holy Tooth of Buddha in Sri Lanka and one thing that was discussed was this extensive umbrella term the Brits created regarding all things Hindu. It's a ton of stuff. So so much.

I think I remember you telling me about the prevalence of Hinglish in modern Indian music.

It's absolutely everywhere. So is Punjablish, Tamlish, etc. English vocabulary is very popular nowadays, and we take a lot of loan words.


Odd question. Bear with me. :p

You mentioned Tamilish. The Tamil, how do they feel about being included too under that umbrella term? I know they're fiercely nationalistic.
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