The Strangest Language

by **Risottia** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:07 pm

Antilon wrote:Latin. Noun conjugation? How strange....

1.It's "declension". "Conjugation" is for verbs.
2.Cat, cat's - cats, cats' . I, mine, me - we, ours, us. English declines nouns and pronouns, too.

by **Angleter** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:10 pm

Antilon wrote:Latin. Noun conjugation? How strange....

Declension- as is done in a lot of languages, most notably German (der die das -- den die das -- des der des -- dem der dem)- and actually serves a good purpose in indicating context.

by **Esternial** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:13 pm

Johz wrote:Polish. Crazy stuff there.

Although, obviously, English. But that's just 'cos I am English...

My uncle learnt that. TONS of cases.

by **Gorgentia** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:18 pm

Navajo is one of the hardest languages in the world and its as strange as it gets

by **Hypparchia** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:19 pm

All eskimo languages though I love them. And their writing systems.

by **Capisaria** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:19 pm

Klingon is the Strangest Language

by **Caninope** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:20 pm

Angleter wrote:
Antilon wrote:Latin. Noun conjugation? How strange....

Declension- as is done in a lot of languages, most notably German (der die das die -- den die das die-- des der des der-- dem der dem den)- and actually serves a good purpose in indicating context.

On the bright side, they stay pretty consistent between each case, making them easy enough to remember with, for me at least. I also added in the plural.

by **Hresejnen** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:35 pm

Blackfoot. Ridiculously fusional, with whole sentences being single words. I personally love the example on Wiki:

áakokaawa, "s/he will rope" vs. áakookaawa, "s/he will sponsor a sundance"

I think Solresol, although it's not natural, deserves an honourable mention as well. Gotta love a language with just seven syllables that can be spelled with colours, lines, letters, musical notes, finger movements, you name it.

by **Banlieue 47** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:47 pm

English... Is... totally... confusing...

Thankfully I've had 9 years (since I moved to the UK) to practice but hey... And the fact most English don't speak English... "c u 2moz" What does that even mean?

by **Novograd IV** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:02 pm

Banlieue 47 wrote:English... Is... totally... confusing...

Thankfully I've had 9 years (since I moved to the UK) to practice but hey... And the fact most English don't speak English... "c u 2moz" What does that even mean?

Phonetics:

'see' 'you' 'to-moz'

the ending is just not being bothered to make a long word, but it means 'see you tomorrow'

"Skallvia" · by **Maurepas** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:06 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7osGfFTQVtU

*nods*,

by **Mercator Terra** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:06 pm

The Xhosa language

by **Dumb Ideologies** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:08 pm

Any language except English. How quaint that people keep jabbering away rather than learning to speak the only language that matters.

by **Rokartian States** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:08 pm

Antilon wrote:Latin. Noun conjugation? How strange....

Latin doesn't conjugate nouns, it declines them, as do a number of other languages, such as Russian, German, and English.

by **Tsa-la-gi Nation** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:37 pm

lolspeak, srsy!

by **Maltropia** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:40 pm

Tsa-la-gi Nation wrote:lolspeak, srsy!

Mícheary, a chara; déan iarracht Gaeilge a thuiscint.

Theipfidh ort.

(You know a language is crazy when, to say "you fail", you must say "Fail on you")

by **Luna Amore** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:32 pm

Hresejnen wrote:Blackfoot. Ridiculously fusional, with whole sentences being single words. I personally love the example on Wiki:

áakokaawa, "s/he will rope" vs. áakookaawa, "s/he will sponsor a sundance"

Reminds me of siZulu/siSwati :
ngiyadlala bantfwana - I am playing with the children
ngiyalala bantfwana - I am sleeping with the children.

There's a mistake you don't want to make.

by **Niur** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:43 pm

My vote goes to North Sentinelese, if only because it is near impossible to learn. Although I find many languages to be peculiar it is the ones that we cannot know that are the strangest. Although there is one Nahua language that is particulary strange.

by **Tokos** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:44 pm

Niur wrote:My vote goes to North Sentinelese, if only because it is near impossible to learn. Although I find many languages to be peculiar it is the ones that we cannot know that are the strangest. Although there is one Nahua language that is particulary strange.

It's only impossible to learn because you can't learn a language when you are stuck full of arrows.

by **Greed and Death** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:46 pm

Klingon.

by **Niur** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:52 pm

Tokos wrote:
Niur wrote:My vote goes to North Sentinelese, if only because it is near impossible to learn. Although I find many languages to be peculiar it is the ones that we cannot know that are the strangest. Although there is one Nahua language that is particulary strange.

It's only impossible to learn because you can't learn a language when you are stuck full of arrows.

No you cannot. Well you can try, but it generally doesn't work to well. Perhaps if you are a super intelligent slime mold. Mösiehuali is pretty weird if you ask me as well. Nehualmoyecastemojmolunijtzinutinemisquiöni is a single word, meaning "You honorable people might have come along banging your noses so as to make them bleed, but in fact you didn't."

by **Meryuma** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:01 pm

Antilon wrote:Latin. Noun conjugation? How strange....

It's called declension, and you better get used to it, seeing as it's probably in the majority of languages and definitely in the majority of fusional languages on Earth.

Niur wrote:
Tokos wrote:
It's only impossible to learn because you can't learn a language when you are stuck full of arrows.

No you cannot. Well you can try, but it generally doesn't work to well. Perhaps if you are a super intelligent slime mold. Mösiehuali is pretty weird if you ask me as well. Nehualmoyecastemojmolunijtzinutinemisquiöni is a single word, meaning "You honorable people might have come along banging your noses so as to make them bleed, but in fact you didn't."

That's some word.

Anyways, how would a slime mold speak or hear?

by **Niur** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:06 pm

Meryuma wrote:Anyways, how would a slime mold speak or hear?

Perhaps it would need only to do one, as it could probably read lips if it wanted to. Perhaps it could use the eyes of some other organism and somehow integrate it into itself. But this is all just theoretical. Mosiehuali also as a very extensive and flexible honorifics system, not to mention all the suffixes and prefixes, and their own induvidual properties.

by **Greater Miami Shores** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:07 pm

Arumdaum wrote:Welsh. Definately Welsh. The writing for it looks all funny. Also Italian's pretty weird to me.

I love Italian, sounds cool too me.

by **Zephie** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:01 pm

The Truth and Light wrote:I'd have to say Russian. It's words are really long and it sounds very alien to my ears. Behind that is Mandarin, because it is very off base comparted to European languages.

What is the strangest language, NS?

Russian? It has a short alpahabet like many languages. I would say Thai is a strange language, there's many "accent" marks that can go on different characters. So think of an apostrophe over a vower á but there's like a dozen different apostrophes you can put on top of the letter.

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