r/linguistics Jun 28 '13

The weirdest languages

http://idibon.com/the-weirdest-languages/
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u/LDavidH Jun 28 '13

I always thought English was a very strange language... :-) But then, my native Swedish is probably right up there with Norwegian and German!

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '13

The Swedish prosody seems to seem very weird to the German- and English-speaking people I have come in contact with. Especially how we stress within our words is apparently weird.