What is the coolest real language still being used
Lojban
euskara is pretty neat
>coolest
American English
한국말
>>1161806
Gymraeg
Greek, a language and alphabet that has survived for about 3000 years.
Inb4 latin( meme language)
>>1161806
>coolest language
Not familiar with this linguistic terminology.
>>1162009
Right, but what's the dif between modern greek and 3000 yo greek?
>>1162059
Masculine is no longer in the role of feminine
>>1161988
"Y Gymraeg" means "the Welsh (language)" but when you write it by itself it's spelled Cymraeg.
>>1162059
Less than that between Old English and Modern English, a modern day Greek can read classical Greek texts without much trouble.
>>1161817
meme moonspeak
>>1162076
they wouldn't be able to understand it if it were spoken
>>1162090
The accent would be very different but they'd pick it up. Written languages tend to be very conservative, and Greek has been written for 3,000 years.
Bushman click languages. They may be dumb niggers, but I'm just amazed at how those sounds survived.
Hebrew, the only dead language to be revived.
>>1161806
you can bet your sweet tuchus its yiddish
>>1162785
>yiddish
>a real language
ניסיון חמוד, אבל אתה סתם מדבר גרמנית
The Algonquian family and its Direct-Inverse alignment:
ni- waapam -aa -aki
'I look at them'
ni- waapam -ekw -aki
'They look at me'
>>1161806
English - most useful
German - sexy
Japanese
Arabic - manly
Lithuanian and Latvian
>>1164294
>German
>Sexy
Whatever you say Hans.
Silbo Gomero
>>1164294
I never thought Arabic to be a manly language. German maybe, because of the hard consonants.
>>1164294
Arabic doesn't sound exactly manly, though even less femenine. Alien would be the best word to be honest with all the ghalkholgha.
>>1164307
I'm Uhmerikin but I enjoy hearing Deutsch girls speak.
>>1164428
All foreign accents sound good when used by cute enough girls, to be honest.
>>1161806
Nahuatl
Just look at this shit
>>1161806
any pre-indoEuropean language in Europe is pretty spooky.. Basque for example
>>1162075
My phone auto corrected it
>>1164458
Isn't the "tl" sound only found in only three other languages in the world or something?
Plainsrunes desu
>>1164440
Danish and Dutch?
>>1161806
Lithuanian. Most conservative surviving Indo-European language.
>>1165134
I dunno about conservative but it is the oldest surviving language in its current form.
Greek is probably the most conservative but might be due to Indo-European linguistics being based on classical European languages.
>>1162059
Depends.
Modern Greek, with the exception of Tsakonian, you pedants, is all derived from Attic Greek, basically Athenian, and so anything from that continuum is pretty much decently understandable.
I've heard it analogized as this, from my Greek professor, Plato is Chaucer, and Koine is Shakespeare.
That said, "Modern" Greek is a horrible Frankensteinian abomination unto God created by a committee, and doesn't reflect a natural evolution of the language, which has several modern Attic derivatives.
There's also a Book Language called Katharevousa, which is basically an attempt to retain as much Archaisms as humanly possible, and it's all rather posh.
>>1164703
>Dutch
Dutch women are just a massive turn off for me.
>>1164703
Hell yeah, man.
>>1164703
Flemish is hella sexy compared to Hollandic Dutch. A lot of Dutch people even think it's more sexier then their own language.
>tfw i could cuck every dutchman
example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zwt7TvXBY
As a burger, how hard would it be to teach myself Russian over the summer? I'm sure the resources are out there.
I could take a class in Uni but I'm already taking Latin next semester and I don't want to confuse my brain.
>>1167692
These questions are pointless as it depends on your individual talent. Going with the assumption that you are average and don't speak anything else than English then you won't get very far. Russian and English don't have much in common, the pronounciation would be quite dificult for you too I guess. Plus Russian is relatively a difficult language to learn. Much more difficult than any Germanic language and with English as your only it's also much more difficult than any Romance one out there.
Go ahead and give it a shot, though. You have nothing to lose.
>>1161806
Frysian
>>1165166
do explain.
I like Friscian because their English's little brother that nobody ever notices.
>>1164370
>implying colloquial written arabic doesnt have vowels because of how rough the consonants are
>>1167845
well it's easier to learn than say Finnish...
>>1167692
Most of your difficulties will come with cyrillic, in my experience
>>1164370
Depends highly on dialect. Franconian basically has no hard consonants at all.
>>1162843
I know a little bit about algonquian languages. they almost all have that same 1st person prefix. the -aa- / -ekw- is telling you whether the ni is the subject or the object.
>>1164458
nahuatl is sick dude, there's so much morphology. I like how compositional the words are. like "tlacochittac" I think means "dreamer," but it breaks down to "someone who sees sees something in his sleep"
>>1164370
>hard consonants
>>1161806
English is objectively the best in literally every way. Russian is pretty cool though
>>1161988
Gym rag
>>1169470
Cym rag?
romansh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISWl6QM41Lg
>>1169137
Those are agglutinative constructions. The same as Japanese. English has a lot of long words and technical terms that are constructed in a similar way.
>>1169470
Fuck you
>>1161811
First post best post.
Whats the most pleb tier easy language to learn if you only know English?
>>1170173
spanish
>>1170173
Scots.
Estonian of course
If dubs it's Arabic
>>1170173
Scots.
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingland
Yes, this is an actual recognized "language."
>>1167692
Cyrillic is incredibly easy to learn. The hardest part will be learning correct pronunciation, but you can get decently good at reading it within one summer.
I've been self-teaching for about a month and I'm able to understand most words in popular songs, have simple conversations, and reading and writing in Cyrillic is as easy as using the Roman alphabet now.
There are tons of resources out there. I'd recommend looking up some coursebooks on vk.com.
http://speak-russian.cie.ru/time_new/eng/flash/
http://masterrussian.com/aa032301a.shtml
