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ixat02 asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

how many languages don't you speak?

mine are latin and old greek, and maybe sign language, but i don't know how to ( not ) speak it...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I don't speak many languages, hundreds actually. In fact I don't speak most languages. Since you speak old Greek (or are you saying you DON'T speak old Greek, in which case NEVER MIND) would you mind translating this old Greek Bible I found in my attic?

    Now to further answer your question, in fact I do speak very little of a few languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, others) but here's a list of languages I don't speak or understand completely/fluently:

    Australian Aboriginal Languages German Oromo

    Afrikaans Greek Papuan Languages

    Albanian Guarani Pashto

    Amharic Gujarati Punjabi

    Arabic (Egyptian) Haitian Creole Polish

    Arabic (Levantine) Hausa Portuguese

    Arabic (Modern Standard) Hawaiian Quechua

    Arabic (Moroccan) Hawaiian Creole Quiche

    Aramaic Hebrew Romanian

    Armenian Hindi Romany

    Aymara Hungarian Russian

    Azerbaijani Icelandic Sanskrit

    Bahasa Indonesia Ilokano Serbian

    Bahasa Melayu Inuit Slovak

    Balochi Irish Slovenian

    Basque Italian Somali

    Bislama Japanese Spanish

    Belarusian Javanese Swahili

    Bengali Kannada Swedish

    Berber Kazakh Tagalog

    Bosnian Khmer Tajik

    Bulgarian Korean Tamil

    Burmese Kurdi Telugu

    Catalan Lakota Thai

    Cantonese Lao Tibetan

    Cebuano Latin Tok Pisin

    Cherokee Latvian Turkish

    Chinook Jargon Lithuanian Turkmen

    Croatian Macedonian Ukrainian

    Czech Malagasy Urdu

    Danish Malayalam Uyghur

    Dutch Mandarin Uzbek

    Egyptian Manx Vietnamese

    English Marathi Welsh

    Esperanto Mongolian Xhosa

    Estonian Nahuatl Yiddish

    Farsi Navajo Yoruba

    Finnish Norwegian Yucatec Maya

    French Ojibwa Zapotec

    Georgian Oriya Zulu

    NOTE add to above list any dead languages, any language variants, and pretty much any language other than very bad English...

    Oh, and I forgot "pretend but growing" languages, like Klingon, for instance. I know a few words perhaps, but I don't "speak" it.

    As for sign language, most of the "signs" I know are "fighting words" if you catch my drift...

    Does math count as a language? I'm pretty damn good at math!

    I considered answering this with gibberish, some dead obscure language, or something like that, but decided that would be a waste of time even if it managed to get a laugh or two.

    Aitway Iay orgotfay... iay ancay eakspay igpay atinlay utbay evernay otgay ibberishgay ownday ecausebay itay isay ootay agay!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't speak all but 1 language

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't speak any of the languages except for English and German.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I don't speak Elvish, but I'm a mad wiz at reading it. I don't speak a number of spoken languages. I don't speak sign. I don't read a number of Native American languages (they don't have a written form)

  • Terisu
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I don't speak Tagalog (yes, it's a real language).

  • Taivo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I don't speak about 6000 languages.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't speak any but English. Does it really matter?

  • 1 decade ago

    Estimates range from 3000-4 to 10000-2 depending on the definition of language and your generosity with my German and Italian.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    1) What is the most beautiful language spoken? (what sounds beautiful to your ears) Russian and Italian , more inclined into Russian to be honest. 2) What is the ugliest language spoken? (what sounds ugly to your ears) Mandarin and , at some expend , German. 3) What languages do you speak? Spanish , English and Russian.

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