Re: Rating Languages

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>:
>
> > Well I'm a native Hungarian speaker so it's easy for me, but
> > surprisingly
> > difficult was Estonian and Votian. Somali was difficult to the point
> > that
> > I gave up on it, but more so due to inarticulatable phonology than
> > grammar...
> >
>
> More than Arabic? What does it contain, clicks or what? I would be
> interested to learn more about Somali then.
I don't think so, but it does have some pharyngeals:

<http://www.teleport.com/~napoleon/somali/phonology.html>

I would think (based on no experience of my own) that this would
be less difficult than Hausa, with its baroque use of glottalics.

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