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As I promised today I’ll
continue the topic of the weirdest languages in the world. There are a lot of
them. Please remember that there is no any clear criteria – I choose these
which name sounds interesting for me or place where they are used is attractive.
Today I’ll write about 10 languages – maybe many of them you haven’t even heard
about.
1. Pitjantjatjara
language: used by Aborygens living in central Australia. It has only three
vowels – a, i, u. Writing is made in
Latin alphabet. The longest word in this language is a name of hill in south
Australia – „Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya”, which means „where the devil urinates”
;)
2.
Ipai
language: used by Kumeyaay people, living in San Diego, California (USA). According
to Wikipedia, in 1994 there were only 25 native speakers.
3.
Archi
language: Northeast Caucasian spoken by people form the village
of Archib (Russia) and few smaller
around. It’s used by around 1000 people but only in spoken form, not written. Mainly
in informal situations – family and friends.
4.
Yupik
language: Eskimo language, written form is in Latin alphabet. It’s spoken I two
places – western and southern Alaska and northeastern
Siberia. It can be divided into five types – speakers not always can
communicate between themselves.
5.
Sentinelese
language: it’s spoken by people from North Sentinel island (India).
Unfortunately members of this society don’t have any contact with other parts of the world so the language is not well known. It’s thought to be endangered and it’s used by around 100 to 250 people.
Unfortunately members of this society don’t have any contact with other parts of the world so the language is not well known. It’s thought to be endangered and it’s used by around 100 to 250 people.
6.
Rotokas
language: East Papuan language spoken by people from Bougainville island. It
consists of 6 consonants and 5 or 10 vowels.
It’s
spoken by 4000 people. The most
characteristic for this language are consonants connections and not known role
of accent.
7.
Język
oromo: Cushitic language which is posken by around 25-30 million people, mainly
in Ethiopia. It’s commonly used in schools, local television and radio and
during shopping – as well as Amharic, official language.
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