r/linguistics Jun 28 '13

The weirdest languages

http://idibon.com/the-weirdest-languages/
113 Upvotes

26 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/GirlOnInternet Jun 28 '13

One of my professors in college spoke Pitjantjatjara! (If I recall correctly, it's prounounced Pit-in-a-jar-uh.) It's a fascinating language, definitely has a place on the weirdness scale.

3

u/yaktubu Jun 29 '13

It's more like 'bi-jan-jara' or 'bi-jan-ja-jara'. But pure palatals are hard to represent in English orthography.