ILuvEire wrote:I personally love Australian Aboriginal languages! For me, it's all about grammar, not history (although it's an added bonus). I'm a huge Polynesian lover, especially Maaori and Hawai`ian (although Hawai`ian isn't spoken in Australia.)
Sorry, I just figured I'd add that in there.
Formiko wrote:ILuvEire wrote:I personally love Australian Aboriginal languages! For me, it's all about grammar, not history (although it's an added bonus). I'm a huge Polynesian lover, especially Maaori and Hawai`ian (although Hawai`ian isn't spoken in Australia.)
Sorry, I just figured I'd add that in there.
Unfortunately, Australian aboriginal languages aren't related to Polynesian at all! Maori is just oddly spoken in Kiwi...the major language family is Pama....
Here is a lonk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous ... _languages
Formiko wrote:You're going to make me get my Ojibwe dictionaries out of storage, aren't you?
TaylorS wrote:Ack! the Ojibwe script isn't showing for me.
Formiko wrote:TaylorS wrote:Ack! the Ojibwe script isn't showing for me.
Get this unicode font..it has the most scripts I have seen yet.
http://www.code2000.net/
Nero wrote:About Agglunation:
English: I truly don't pronounce Cheyenne well: (6 words)
Cheyenne: náohkêsáa'oné'seómepêhévetsêhésto'anéhe (1 word)
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nighean-neonach wrote:Oh, I recognize the "-vunga" ending from Greenlandic there
Ayasha wrote:At my local college they teach Lushotseed (I think that's how it's spelled). They have a beginner year long course and an advanced year long course. It seems pretty interesting... Does anyone know anything about this native american language? All I know is that it is native around Washington state.
Ayasha wrote:I'm definately thinking of it... it seems interesting... not sure if I could take it before I transfer to my 4 year university next September, but it might be on the top of my agenda for when I come back. I would like to learn at least one Native American language, and we actually have some people use this language around here (I am surrounded by reservations here).
Are there any resources you know of that might give me an idea of what this language is about? Thanks!
Amaqqut wrote:Nero wrote:About Agglunation:
English: I truly don't pronounce Cheyenne well: (6 words)
Cheyenne: náohkêsáa'oné'seómepêhévetsêhésto'anéhe (1 word)
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náohkêsáa'oné'seómepêhévetsêhésto'anéhe (36 letters and 1 word)
Inuit would say:
Inuktituusuungutsialaarungnanngittuaraaluuvunga (48 letters and 1 word)
Inuktituusuungu-tsia-laaq-rungnanngit-tuaraaluk-vunga (6:1 ratio)
(Inuktitut-well-pronounce-dont-truly-I)
Inuktitut has not free order OVS with compound sentence and free order is SOV
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