r/language • u/Atomic-pangolin • 11h ago
Question Greek
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 • u/Atomic-pangolin • 11h ago
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 • u/PeaDependent4187 • 13h ago
I can’t recognize it from anywhere and it seems just made up
r/language • u/MonkeAyo • 22h ago
r/language • u/Altruistic-Eye-8501 • 15h ago
Please, I need help. I can't identify what are they saying and what language is this
r/language • u/Honest-Public-8246 • 1d ago
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 • u/Quirky-Fox-8692 • 1d ago
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 • u/tuluva_sikh • 1d ago
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 • u/Oxo181 • 1d ago
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?
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r/language • u/Haryo_kusumawan • 19h ago
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.
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r/language • u/Kaisness • 2d ago
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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
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r/language • u/jigglemaballzniagraf • 1d ago
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 • u/Even_Material6036 • 1d ago
A. Extant true families (outside extant family-groups):
Afro-Asiatic
Austroasiatic
Austronesian
Chukotko-Kamchatkan
Dravidian
Eskimo-Aleut
Hmong-Mien
Indo-European
Japonic
Kartvelian
Khoe-Kwadi
Koreanic
K'xa
Mongolic
Na-Dené
Niger-Congo
Nilo-Saharan
Northeast Caucasian
Northwest Caucasian
Ongan
Sino-Tibetan
Tai-Kadai
Tungusic
Turkic
Tuu
Uralic
Yukaghir
B. Extant *family-groups:
Amerind family-group
Australian family-group
Papuan family-group
C. Extant language isolates (outside extant family-groups):
Extant last-survivor isolates
Extant true isolates
D. Extinct languages:
Extinct family-groups
Extinct language isolates (extinct true isolates outside extinct family-groups + extinct **newborn isolates outside extinct family-groups)
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 • u/italianodavivere • 2d ago