Which language is this? Archive

Which language is this (April-May)?

By Mark Kaiser
Published Apr 20, 2011
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Last month’s language: Korean. Now see if you can discover this month’s language, without using the Internet! Even though it is the native language of only 40% of the population of this small country of 12 million souls, it is spoken by 94% of them.  One of its most notable characteristics is that it features a pronoun conjugation instead of a verbal conjugation, and lacks conventional adjectives, which are treated as (stative)verbs.  It is also worth pointing out that its  →  Read in full

Which language is this (Jan/Feb)

By Mark Kaiser
Published Jan 19, 2011
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Last month’s answer: Czech. This language ... ... is spoken by nearly 78 million people. Most of its speakers live in one of two countries where this is the official language. ... is agglutinative, with an SOV syntactic structure. …has rich honorific forms and context-sensitive speech styles to designate various distinctions in status and situation. …uses a writing system which was invented in the 15th century by a famous king. ... uses a phonetic alphabet system consisting of  →  Read in full

Which language is this (November)?

By Mark Kaiser
Published Nov 08, 2010
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Last month’s answer ........ Telugu. This language … is the official language of a country with approximately 10.3 million inhabitants. Significant numbers of native speakers of this language also live in neighboring countries, but there are groups of speakers also in Australia, Canada, and the United States. A well-known American novel, which many students read in high school, concerns a heroine whose native language this is and whose family has come to the US as  →  Read in full

Which language is this?

By Mark Kaiser
Published Oct 06, 2010
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This language ... ... is an officially recognized language by a regional government; ... is spoken by nearly 80 million speakers, placing it in the top 20 of the most spoken languages in the world; ... has a 1000-year-old literature and has been designated a classical language by its national government; ... has been referred to as “the Italian of the East” due to its words all ending in vowels; ... is agglutinative, with an SOV syntactic structure; ... distinguishes between  →  Read in full

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