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Sobekhotep · **Posted:** Sat 11 Jul 2009 7:06 am

Dennis wrote:

I know this topic is old by now, but here are my guesses:

German
Dutch
Finnish
Swedish
?
Spanish
Italian
French
Greek
Arabic
?
?
Japanese
Korean
Chinese
Vietnamese
?
English

I have no idea what the one after Finnish is. It defintely sounds European, though.
The one after that one & before Spanish is definitely Romanian.
The one after Arabic I think is Hebrew.
After Hebrew is Korean, then Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese, Esperanto, & finally English.
I'm really curious as to what the language between Finnish & Romanian is.

Anders · Joined:Wed 20 May 2009 10:23 am Posts:52 Location: Sweden

Sobekhotep wrote:

I'm really curious as to what the language between Finnish & Romanian is.

It's Georgian at Nr 4

Neqitan · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 9:59 pm Posts:397 Location: Canada

Sobekhotep wrote:

The one after that one & before Spanish is definitely Romanian.

Hey, I understood quite a bunch of words from that one.

Sobekhotep · **Posted:** Sun 12 Jul 2009 6:43 am

Anders wrote:

Sobekhotep wrote:

I'm really curious as to what the language between Finnish & Romanian is.

It's Georgian at Nr 4

It is Georgian! I never would have guessed that! The ejectives are not obvious, at least not to me. I always imagined they'd be easily identifiable. And where are all the consonant clusters I've heard horror stories about?!

Beautiful language. Not what I expected after reading about it on paper.
I'd also like to point out that the Georgian word for "human being" seems to be related to Hebrew's <אדם> (adam). 8-)

Neqitan wrote:

Sobekhotep wrote:

The one after that one & before Spanish is definitely Romanian.

Hey, I understood quite a bunch of words from that one.

Yeah, me too. Knowing one Italic language certainly helps!

imbecilica · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:37 am Posts:176

German
Dutch
Finnish
Georgian
Romanian
Spanish
Italian
French
Greek
Arabic
Hebrew
Japanese
Korean
Chinese
Thai
Vietnamese
Esperanto
English - Simon Ager it was!...albeit with bad audio

Sobekhotep · **Posted:** Sat 18 Jul 2009 2:01 am

imbecilica wrote:

German
Dutch
Finnish
Georgian
Romanian
Spanish
Italian
French
Greek
Arabic
Hebrew
Japanese
Korean
Chinese
Thai
Vietnamese
Esperanto
English - Simon Ager it was!...albeit with bad audio

No, Korean comes before Japanese.

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

Sobekhotep wrote:

Beautiful language. Not what I expected after reading about it on paper.

I think that of several languages, and the reverse for languages that are often considered beautiful.

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I'd also like to point out that the Georgian word for "human being" seems to be related to Hebrew's <אדם> (adam).

I'm not discounting the possibility of a loan, but these languages aren't related at all so I'm skeptical.

Sobekhotep · **Posted:** Sun 19 Jul 2009 6:29 am

Talib wrote:

Sobekhotep wrote:

Beautiful language. Not what I expected after reading about it on paper.

I think that of several languages, and the reverse for languages that are often considered beautiful.

Oh? Care to name a language that you thought would be "beautiful" but didn't turn out so?

Talib wrote:

Quote:

I'd also like to point out that the Georgian word for "human being" seems to be related to Hebrew's <אדם> (adam).

I'm not discounting the possibility of a loan, but these languages aren't related at all so I'm skeptical.

That's what I meant, that it's probably a loan.

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

Sobekhotep wrote:

Oh? Care to name a language that you thought would be "beautiful" but didn't turn out so?

Italian is often called beautiful, but it does nothing for me.

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That's what I meant, that it's probably a loan.

Oh, okay. You said "related" so I assumed you were implying a genetic relationship.

It could just be a random coincidence too.

Sobekhotep · **Posted:** Tue 21 Jul 2009 12:52 am

Talib wrote:

Italian is often called beautiful, but it does nothing for me.

I have to agree.

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It could just be a random coincidence too.

Yeah, that's also possible.