spanish
spanish
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I think there are 4 ways of saying it.
I thought it was Tigrigna.
motley said:
Tigrina Language of Eritrea
I knew that would come in handy some day
It's no longer called Eritrean'! (As I recollect, that's what it was called when part of Ethiopia.)
Tigrina
Language of Eritrea
I knew that would come in handy some day
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There is no such language as "Indonesian",it is actually called Bahasa and is the same as Malay.
"Indonesian" is how most English speakers know the language; however, from what I know, "bahasa" is not the name of the language, but it actually means "language" in Malaysia and Indonesia, and many other Eastern countries. They call it "Bahasa Indonesia", which means "Language (of) Indonesia", in the same way that "Bahasa Malaysia" is the language of Malaysia, and Nepal Bahasa is the language from Nepal. We call them Malay and Nepalese/Nepali respectively.
The word bahasa is from Sanskrit origin, and therefore it is likely related to other Indo-European languages. In English, "bellow", "poltergeist" and "bell" are supposed to have the same origins.
Selamat malam,apa khabar!(good evening,how are you!)
There is no such language as "Indonesian",it is actually called Bahasa and is the same as Malay.
Just out of interest "Orang Utan" actually means "Forest man",or "Man of the Forest" and comes from the jungles of Sumatra,where the few remaining wild great apes live.
Orang-man
Utan-forest
tad said:
Finnish would be spoken by a Finn.
I forgot about Finn, thanks. By the way, when you hear someone saying "A Finn would learn pretty quick", you'd never think of a fish, right? (fin).
lazarus1907 said:
tad said:
I read a book once by an )annoying man= that could speak dozens of languages. He cited Indonesian as by far the easiest one to learn. Toughest were Hungarian and Finnishñ )although I'm not sure if he tried Basque=.
One aspect of Indonesian is that for plurals they say the word twice. man¡orang - men¡orang orang )if I remember correctly=
)One problem with a Spanish keyboard is remembering all the other non Spanish'related keys that have shifted around!=)His name was Barry Farber BTW=
You remember correctly about the duplicates in Indonesian, and about how easy it is. Its grammar is as simple as it gets, it is very regular, and easy to pronounce. Hungarian is in many ways one of the most difficult ones, and Finnish is quite similar; however, this difficulty is relative. A Finnish may not find Hungarian as difficult as, say, Portuguese (maybe). You always have to take into account a person's mother tongue.
It made me laugh that when they write they just put the number 2 after the word for plurals. Maybe they are the original people to use 'text' language.
Finnish would be spoken by a Finn.
tad said:
I read a book once by an )annoying man= that could speak dozens of languages. He cited Indonesian as by far the easiest one to learn. Toughest were Hungarian and Finnishñ )although I'm not sure if he tried Basque=.
One aspect of Indonesian is that for plurals they say the word twice. man¡orang - men¡orang orang )if I remember correctly=
)One problem with a Spanish keyboard is remembering all the other non Spanish'related keys that have shifted around!=)His name was Barry Farber BTW=
You remember correctly about the duplicates in Indonesian, and about how easy it is. Its grammar is as simple as it gets, it is very regular, and easy to pronounce. Hungarian is in many ways one of the most difficult ones, and Finnish is quite similar; however, this difficulty is relative. A Finnish may not find Hungarian as difficult as, say, Portuguese (maybe). You always have to take into account a person's mother tongue.
One aspect of Indonesian is that for plurals they say the word twice. man¡orang - men¡orang orang )if I remember correctly
...or maybe it was oran, leastways 'orangutan' is 'man of the forest'
lazarus1907 said:
Indonesian.
I read a book once by an )annoying man= that could speak dozens of languages. He cited Indonesian as by far the easiest one to learn.
Toughest were Hungarian and Finnishñ )although I'm not sure if he tried Basque=.
One aspect of Indonesian is that for plurals they say the word twice. man¡orang - men¡orang orang )if I remember correctly=
)One problem with a Spanish keyboard is remembering all the other non Spanish'related keys that have shifted around!=
)His name was Barry Farber BTW=
Cockney (as spoken by Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady)
How can we help you, Kamran'
Mandarin
Klingon
