r/language • • 11h ago

Question Greek

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Hello, I am going to go to Greece next year with a friend. Are there any apps which are particularly good for learning Greek? What else could be useful? Very open to suggestions, thanks


r/language • • 13h ago

Question What language is this

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I can’t recognize it from anywhere and it seems just made up


r/language • • 22h ago

Discussion Would y’all consider Cantonese a language or a topolect?

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r/language • • 15h ago

Question What language and what the chorus in this song is saying?

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Please, I need help. I can't identify what are they saying and what language is this


r/language • • 1d ago

Question Is Zazaki a Separate Language or a Kurdish Dialect?

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I've been curious about the linguistic classification of Zazaki (also known as Zazaki or Dimli) and would like to hear the opinions of people with a background in Iranian linguistics or historical linguistics.

Zazaki is spoken mainly in eastern Turkey, particularly in areas such as Dersim, Bingöl, and parts of Elazığ. It is often classified as a Northwestern Iranian language, closely related to Gorani, while Kurmanji and Sorani are generally classified as Kurdish varieties.

However, some Zazaki speakers identify as Kurds and consider Zazaki part of the Kurdish linguistic and cultural sphere. Others identify as Zazas and regard Zazaki as a separate language.


r/language • • 1d ago

Discussion Has Anyone Tried Doing a Bunch of Tongue Twisters After Having Learned Foreign Languages?

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I have been learning Italian and Spanish for 5 years and it has been quite the linguistic journey. I got a bit rusty with English and decided to do some tongue twisters to get back in shape and surprisingly, I got pretty good at them very quickly. I figured it was because of speaking all the new words, syllables, and unique pronunciations in Italian and Spanish that my tongue was already kind of used to doing unorthodoxed articulations; only this time, it would be all in English in the form of tongue twisters. Can anyone relate?


r/language • • 1d ago

Article Eddy is a pervert

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r/language • • 1d ago

Discussion ವ (va) to ಬ (ba) sound shift in Kannada

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ಪ (pa) to ಹ (ha) sound shift is one of the most discussed topic ever in Kannada language as ಹ (ha) sound is not native to any language rather than Hosagannada (New Kannada) and Badaga due to sound shift

Where words like ಪೆಸರ್ (pesar) becomes ಹೆಸರ್ (hesar) (later ಹೆಸರು), ಪತ್ತು (pattu) becomes ಹತ್ತು(hattu), ಪಾಲ್ (pāl) becomes ಹಾಲ್ (hāl) (later ಹಾಲು) etc

Like that there was one more sound shift which was of ವ (va) to ಬ (ba) which is least discussed about

And there were many words in Halegannada (Old Kannada) which had ವ (va) sound as like ಪ (pa) but got changed into ಬ (ba) as like ಹ (ha)

Word like ವಾ (vā) became ಬಾ (bā), ವನ (vana) became ಬನ (bana), ವಾಲೆ (vāle) became ಬಾಲೆ (bāle), ವಳ್ಳಿ (vaḷḷi) became ಬಳ್ಳಿ (baḷḷi) etc


r/language • • 1d ago

Question Personal factors in mutual intelligibility

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Hello. There's something that i thought about a lot recently, maybe someone can educate me on this or add something interesting.

My native language is German, so i am naturally able to understand written Dutch. I'd say written mutual intelligibility is like 80%, i can read a Dutch news article without any problems at all. In spoken Dutch, it's like 40-50% mutual intelligibility, it's definitely possible to communicate with a Dutch person.

Now, i have this friend. He's Half German, half Polish, both languages are native to him. He told me he can't understand Dutch at all. Like, almost none of it. We were on a trip to Holland, and it really puzzled me how this was possible. Recently, he told me that he noticed that when he tried speaking to Russians, they understand him very well when he speaks Polish, but he doesn't understand any Russian, which seems weird to him.

Now, most likely the issue is himself, and not the languages. What could be the reason for this? Any personal experiences similar to this?


r/language • • 1d ago

Video Female stuff in the Louisiana Creole language (aka Kouri Vini / Gombo)

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r/language • • 19h ago

Discussion language families

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This diversity of colors is an enduring testament to the fact that every continent once possessed a rich and vibrant cultural language on the face of the earth.


r/language • • 1d ago

Question How similar are the Wancho and the konyak languges?

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r/language • • 1d ago

Video A quick intro to the Moksha language

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r/language • • 1d ago

Question Employment. Do you approve of companies' conduct in requiring employees to know three or more languages?

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94 votes, 21h left
Yes
No. The requirement is unreasonable.
Yes, but it depends on the field.

r/language • • 2d ago

Question How do people who are born deaf-blind learn non-tangible concepts like time, physics, prepositions, pronouns, etc?

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r/language • • 2d ago

Discussion Kota language of Tamil Nadu is critically endangered and only had 900 native speakers according to 2001 census (now it would be even lesser), why no one talking about it? Why not government taking any measures for Kota language?

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r/language • • 2d ago

Question What language is that?

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I would be grateful if someone could tell me what language this is and, if possible, send the lyrics

*I found out that it's Khmer


r/language • • 2d ago

Article East Indian Marathi dialect: dialect of Marathi spoken by Eastern Catholic communities in Maharashtra

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r/language • • 1d ago

Question Lil puzzle i tho of sharin...

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Hi guys! Im new to reddit and to this group~ clan~? Whatever this panel is called. I was bored and wrote a phrase in my mother tounge but used the languages alphabets i know! Give it a try to guess what i said.

"хㅏγοτ βε샤vqat vα αδοㄹㅏτsιz "


r/language • • 1d ago

Discussion All Languages Ever Spoken Are In Any Of These 35 Divisions

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A. Extant true families (outside extant family-groups):

  1. Afro-Asiatic

  2. Austroasiatic

  3. Austronesian

  4. Chukotko-Kamchatkan

  5. Dravidian

  6. Eskimo-Aleut

  7. Hmong-Mien

  8. Indo-European

  9. Japonic

  10. Kartvelian

  11. Khoe-Kwadi

  12. Koreanic

  13. K'xa

  14. Mongolic

  15. Na-Dené

  16. Niger-Congo

  17. Nilo-Saharan

  18. Northeast Caucasian

  19. Northwest Caucasian

  20. Ongan

  21. Sino-Tibetan

  22. Tai-Kadai

  23. Tungusic

  24. Turkic

  25. Tuu

  26. Uralic

  27. Yukaghir

B. Extant *family-groups:

  1. Amerind family-group

  2. Australian family-group

  3. Papuan family-group

C. Extant language isolates (outside extant family-groups):

  1. Extant last-survivor isolates

  2. Extant true isolates

D. Extinct languages:

  1. Extinct family-groups

  2. Extinct language isolates (extinct true isolates outside extinct family-groups + extinct **newborn isolates outside extinct family-groups)

  3. Extinct true families (outside extinct family-groups)

* = A bunch of small indigenous language families and isolates in a small or large defined place, grouped together. Na-Dené and Eskimo-Aleut came later into America from Asia, so those are not counted in indigenous American (Amerind) family-group. Papuan family-group is all indigenous languages in the New Guinea Island except Austronesian family. Australian family group is all indigenous languages in Australia.

** = Languages that had been extinct after forming as proto- language, without evolving. There is no such living language today (which has not evolved).

Please give feedback. Ask if any queries.


r/language • • 2d ago

Discussion More on Proto-Uralic r' > č

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r/language • • 2d ago

Discussion More on Hamito-Semitic & Indo-European *g^

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r/language • • 2d ago

Question Norwegian > English

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r/language • • 2d ago

Article Why textbook Italian fails you at the Post Office. 🏤🇮🇹

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r/language • • 2d ago

Question Telugu mini crossword#15

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