picture source: www.africanwomenrights.org
Till now I’ve presented
you many different methods of learning foreign languages. Of course it’s not
the end of this topic but today will be about something else. Do you know that
nowadays people are using around 7,000 languages? – quite big amount. I think
that some of them will disappear soon but other will be created. Have you ever
thought which of them are the weirdest? It’s quite hard to classify
“being weird”. Which measure
should we use? – name, the way of pronunciation, or maybe location, amount of people
who are speaking it? In the Internet we can find a lot of many different lists
– I’ve decide to connect them and talk about weird languages being headed by
name and origin. I think that all of you can prepare their own list of
languages which you think are weird. Today (for the beginning) I chose 5 below:
1.
Khoisan
language: in fact it’s language group which contains around 100 languages. It’s
used by African, especially form South Africa. The most characteristic for this
language is clicking. Yes, in
our culture it’s thought to be rude when you’re clicking (for example during
eating) and for Africans it’s a part of their language. It’s used by 350,000
people. I recommend you a great short movie with first lesson :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz44WiTVJww
2.
Silbo
language: it’s used by people from Gomera Island. It’s based on whistles which
are used to communicate in long distances in mountains. The name comes from
Spanish word silbar which means „to
whistle”.
3.
Kashubian
language: sometimes it’s thought to be separate language, sometimes as a
dialect of Polish (regional language). It’s used by 108,000 people living in
Kashuby (north Poland). From 2005 students can pass matura exam in this language.
4.
!o!kung language: next „clicking” language. But this one is used by people form north Namibia and
south Angola. It has the most phonemes. According to different sources
it’s used by around 9,000 people.
5.
Nuxalk
language: it’s used by Indians in Canada (British Columbia - Bella Coola). It
doesn’t have any vowels – only consonants. It’s used just by 30 elderly people.
It’s only beginning of weird languages – next week
second part! :)
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