Re: Favourite Language Group?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 5, 2002, 7:36 |
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En réponse à Joe <joe@...>:
> What's everyone's favourite language group(s)?
>
> Mine:
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> Finno-Ugric(gotta love that agglutinative grammar...and finnish sounds
> really nice
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> Albanian(Again, sounds great, don't know too much about the Grammar)
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> Basque(It's so...so...natural...)
>
Hehe, I heartedly agree with that list. I'd add among my favourites:
- Austronesian (yeah, a vast group I know ;)) . Among them, the Malayo-
Polynesian languages are my favourites. I just love trigger systems :))) ),
- Sino-Tibetan (a family with such variation among its members!! It's just
great! But I prefer the Tibetan rather than the Chinese branch),
- Korean and Japanese (whether they are related or not I don't know. But they
are both as cool as the other ;))) ),
- Eskimo-Aleut languages (polysynthesis rules!),
- Caucasian languages (how can you not like languages that allow onset clusters
of 8 consonants? ;))))) ),
- and last but not least: Celtic languages (my favourite group among IE
languages :))) ).
Of course, this list is limited by my little knowledge of languages. I'm a real
linguavore, and there's so much left to explore for me. <goes back to explore
the Ethnologue>
Christophe.
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