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Do you know how many languages are there in the world? According to the ethnologue there are approximately 6.000, EXACTLY it sounds like a pretty big number if you consider that more than 50% of humanity only manages and / or knows 10 (We refer to the most popular ones such as English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, among others). And in spite of that before they were thousands and thousands.
Language as a whole is so important because it reflects the thought, history, culture and reality of society. Ask yourself, if we cross the border. What kind of things can we find within that space? I advance you, the reality of many societies of humanity has been VERY DIFFERENT from ours and its way of expressing it has been the rarest but really too rare. Many escape the logical sense and challenge with their strangeness to whom want to understand them.
But as part of human culture is a shame that many people ignore since many have their days numbered. So we talk about 7 of the strangest languages that exist in the world to honor their culture.
1. Language: Tuyuca
This is a language of indigenous tribes of Brazil and Colombia (Tuyuk Tribe). Spoken by approximately 570 people and it's so conflict that is to deal with this language. What's the matter with him? It is the longest and shortest at the same time, it is impressive the great compulsory evidence required by the speakers, I explain, it is not enough to say:
''María knows how to cook ''
No, it is not enough then you have to clarify to your listener which way, situation or reason you have carried out the action
'' María knows how to cook because I am once went to her house and she made dinner''
This makes the tuyuca a super agglutinating language, that is, synthesizes a lot of information in suffixes, prefixes, among others to convey an idea. Without counting on that them have between 50 to 140 genders among which are included one that serves to refer to those things that '' look like tree bark ''. There are at least 140 suffixes to say if the food is from your mother, father, dog, rich, bad, large, small, etc.
I'll give you an example:
Original: Duga ape-wi
Translation: The boy played futbol and I know it because I saw him
Original: hóabãsiriga
Translation: I don’t know how to write
2. Language: Rotokas
And everything is ALL the opposite of the previous one. It is exaggeratedly simple and it almost costs to believe that they can communicate fully with such a language. It’is native of Papua - New guinea and counts on a number of 4000 speakers (For the 2010) and is that it surprises to the world because it counts on an alphabet of only 12 LETTERS; 7 are consonants and 5 are vowels like a variation of the Latin alphabet and is that limited by their environment this tribe did not need to extend their day to day complex. It does not have any nasal sounds.
Imagine your vocabulary reduced to only 12 letters and also without being able to say the letter '' m '' or '' n ''
I'll give you an example:
Original: Vo tuariri rovoaia Pauto vuvuiua ora rasito pura-rovoreva. Vo osia rasito raga toureva, uva viapau oavu avuvai.
Translation: In the beginning God created heaven and earth. The earth had no shape and was empty, darkness covered the abyss
3. Language: Xhosa
Ok it's fine this language is spoken by 7 million people. Yes, it's a lot for this kind of thing. Native of South Africa, and has the honor of being one of the 11 official languages of there and of wonder is written with the Latin alphabet. All right? Now let me tell you how it is spoken. You heard a ping-pong game, right? excellent because that is the spoken language of the Xhosa.
It is pronounced with a combination of clicks, bumps and mouth sighs that although they seem the same, each one means totally different things. Hearing two people speaking this language is interesting, not to say weird. They have a ping-pong match in their mouths.
I'll give you an example:
Original: Kumnandi ukudibana nawe/ukukukwazi
Translation: It’s nice to meet you
4. Language: Piraha
Do you remember the Rotokas? The Piraha won him in this fight. This is the EASIEST language in the world! but believe me the easiest. He is native to the Brazilian Amazon and spoken by 200 people of the tribe '' Piraha ''. It is an isolated language and the only survivor of his family. Aja, I'll explain why I affirm the above: This language DOES NOT have: numbers, nor pronouns, nor verb tenses, nor colors, nor subordinate clauses. It became (guess) an agglutinating language.
NO HAS ANYTHING and, personally, it would complicate me to imagine what it would be like to live with a language of that nature. The ideas that can express this language are very basic and simple. In addition it only has 8 consonants and 3 vowels to finish off. So well, YES, it is easy but it is NOT easy to understand its mechanism.
I'll give you an example:
Original: káixihíxao.xaagá gáihí
Translation: paca exists / to be there
Original: gaí sibaibiababáopiiá
Translation: The jaguar killing my dog by jumping on it
5. Language: Archi
This language got out of hand to its creator. The Archi is spoken by no more than 1000 persons and is located in southwestern Russia. This language presents a frightening challenge to everyone. It’s estimated that it has between 1 MILLION AND A HALF of verbal completions. I put it so, Spanish has at least about 20. COMPARE THAT. The memory capacity that must be had for its complete fluidity is abysmal.
Why so many terminations? As with Tuyuca, this language needs to indicate with an incredible and exaggerated precision the action that is being carried out. Like an example, a verbal action in this language tells you information about the quantity, time, place, gender, speed, size, possessor, environment, posture, intensity, etc, with what happens or should occur the spoken act. It could be a complete ear tongue twister.
I'll give you an example:
Original: Jámut sa ánna óbqӀəl(i) bít'(u) jémim, q át'əlis ʟ'arák qӀ' étʼ(u) lówu áχəs éɬ̄ul(i), q'éӀbdili. χíta ákonì u boχóli, bérqӀuli jémim, bérqӀuli, bérqӀuli, ós mulúrčijk ébdili, č'áben ʟonót, ɬ̄ át boχóli. QӀʼ é-buši ábutib lóbur
Translation(approximate): And they did not go anywhere and with their two children they stayed there under the tree. In the morning they got up and they went walking and walking. They came to the mountains where they found some shepherds with their flocks of sheep.
6. Language: Yupik
With less than 15,000 speakers, this language appears, which is used from Siberia to Alaska by small groups. A language of Eskimo origin and curiously has '' dialects '' (About 5 registered) which makes it much more difficult to sustain it in time. The communities live far away and although they can be understood, it is not the same.
This language in short will hurt the space bar because the words merge so that they end in a single large word of GREAT size that expresses a whole sentence. In case you thought the German was too long, the Yupik can become intolerable to read. I doubt that someone external can learn this language fluently.
'tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq' it's a Yupik word that Who can say that?
I'll give you an example:
Original: yuinaat cetaman qula
Translation: Ninety
7. Language: Afrikaans
This is complete 2.0 remix of human speech, it is found in Namibia and South Africa. Let's take numbers: 13 million speakers, what does it do here then? It mixes a root language the Germanic, derived from Dutch, with aspects of Portuguese, English, Malay and many other Zulu languages. Can you imagine it already? Until the nineteenth century it had no written representation.
It has 3 dialects, and has a grammar that is simpler than Dutch. It has 15 vowels and curiously people from Germany can speak with this community. If you speak English can understand a little bit too and it still has a considerable time of life.
I'll give you an example:
Original: Praat jy Spaans?
Translation: Do you speak Spanish?
Original: Baie goed, dankie
Translation: Very good, thanks
Original: Die kinders praat Afrikaans
Translation: The boys speak Afrikaans
And as well as these there are lots that challenge the way we understand the language but I've left this list here and soon posting more curiosities that are worth knowing.
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