Never a dull moment
Aug. 6th, 2008 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeNow I temporarily have a project analyzing vocabulary in 12 languages: Afar, Cuna, Fijian, Hopi, KhoeKhoe, Maa, Wik-Mungkan, Enga, Hmong, Inuktitut, Lakher or Mara, and Supyire. I've only heard of three of them.
Afar: an Ethiopian language
Cuna: an indigenous language of Panama and Colombia
KhoeKhoe: spoken by people formerly known as Hottentots, a term now considered offensive
Maa: spoken in Tanzania and Kenya
Wik-Mungkan: a native language of Queensland, Australia, with only 400 native speakers
Enga: the most widely spoken native language of New Guinea
Inuktitut: the Inuit languages of Canada (as distinguished from those of Alaska and Greenland)
Lakher or Mara: two names for the language spoken by people of northeastern India and adjacent parts of Burma
Supyire: a language of Mali
(If anyone is curious, the Hmong are a minority in Laos, the Hopi are a native people of the southwestern United States, and Fijian is one of four native languages of Fiji.)
Afar: an Ethiopian language
Cuna: an indigenous language of Panama and Colombia
KhoeKhoe: spoken by people formerly known as Hottentots, a term now considered offensive
Maa: spoken in Tanzania and Kenya
Wik-Mungkan: a native language of Queensland, Australia, with only 400 native speakers
Enga: the most widely spoken native language of New Guinea
Inuktitut: the Inuit languages of Canada (as distinguished from those of Alaska and Greenland)
Lakher or Mara: two names for the language spoken by people of northeastern India and adjacent parts of Burma
Supyire: a language of Mali
(If anyone is curious, the Hmong are a minority in Laos, the Hopi are a native people of the southwestern United States, and Fijian is one of four native languages of Fiji.)