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  • #16
    6- the phrase really seems to be romanian, Constanta is a romanian port
    I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

    Asher on molly bloom

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    • #17
      are you a jester's hat?

      no commetn

      are youa jester's hat?
      CSPA

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Gangerolf
        what book is that, buck?
        "Det Lilla Europa - Guide till Europas Små Folk" by Ingmar Karlsson
        Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
        Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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        • #19
          4 - uh.... Bulgarian Turkish?

          6 - Aromanian
          Poor silly humans. A temporarily stable pattern of matter and energy stumbles upon self-cognizance for a moment, and suddenly it thinks the whole universe was created for its benefit. -- mbelleroff

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          • #20
            1. Definitely Eastern European. I don't know much about Eastern European minorities, so I have no clue.

            2. Reminds me a little of Scandinavian languages. Lapp?

            3. Mix of Latin and Germanic. Probably from the Low Countries. Frisian?

            4. Have no clue.

            5. A Latin Language. Looks a lot like French. Langue d'Oc (is it still around)?

            6. Have no clue.
            "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
            -Bokonon

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            • #21
              Re: Name That Language European Minorities Special Edition

              Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
              Okay, all you language Wizzes out there, you're great at finding obscure tongues from all ends of the earth. Here is a new batch, with only one clue to guide you to their origin: They're all the spoken and/or written languages of european minorities without nation states of their own. Think "Basque" (not included here).
              English!

              Hey, that was easy.
              "I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie Allen

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              • #22
                Originally posted by ranskaldan
                6 - Aromanian
                Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
                Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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                • #23
                  1 - kaszubski?

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Buck Birdseed


                    "Det Lilla Europa - Guide till Europas Små Folk" by Ingmar Karlsson
                    thanks, sounds really interesting.
                    CSPA

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Ecthelion
                      1 - kaszubski?
                      Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
                      Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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                      • #26
                        You live smack in the middle of Sorbia, don't you Andy?
                        Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
                        Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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                        • #27
                          Yes I do. Kaszubski was a wild guess, it was the only Polish minority I could think of AND it certainly did look like Polish once it wasn't Sorbian. As for middle Sorbia, there even is a Sorbian-based (culturally and linguistically) grammar school in this town, however it is only attended by punks really.

                          I still can't believe that kaszubski actually hit the 100 zone

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                          • #28
                            This leaves #4 and #5.

                            #4 is, as correctly pointed out, a Turkic language, and the associated ethnic group is one of the most volatile political issues in one of Europe's least-well-known countries.

                            #5 is a border language between three European countries of which Italy indeed is one. The rallying cry of the region is "[name of region]'o sejs o Popul, Clamajt la vesta Libertát!"
                            Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
                            Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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                            • #29
                              4.
                              ... Macedonian Turkish?

                              5.
                              Friulian?
                              Poor silly humans. A temporarily stable pattern of matter and energy stumbles upon self-cognizance for a moment, and suddenly it thinks the whole universe was created for its benefit. -- mbelleroff

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                              • #30
                                #5 is indeed Furlan.

                                Keep guessing on #4! That extract is from one of many translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that appear on the UNHCR web site...
                                Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
                                Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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