I overheard a couple speaking what I thought was a fantastic sounding language, I found out was Scottish Gaelic.
2006-08-10 21:37:30 · 12 answers · asked by Stuart M 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
to mandbturner3699 fasinating, to bring you up to date, there are 715 languages according to wikitravel
2006-08-11 02:33:23 · update #1
Place talk in Papua New Guinea! there they speak about 930 different languages and some of the languages are spoken by as few as 2 people only as possibly the rest of that particular tribe have died out. Place talk is simply the language spoken in a particular village hence the name "place" Interestingly, 13% of all the languages spoken on earth are spoken in Papua New Guinea which now has a population of about 5.5 million only
2006-08-10 21:49:05 · answer #1 · answered by mandbturner3699 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hear Swiss German all the time. Some say it's not a language, just a dialect but it's not a heck of a lot like standard German. It's spoken by about 5 million people, which makes it WAY more obscure than Arabic!
I think I hear Yoruba too, but I don't know for sure and I'm sure it too has well over 5 million speakers.
2006-08-11 04:53:10 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once heard a married couple argue in Cornish. They were Welsh speakers, but they didn't want their children to realise what they were arguing about (she had been seeing someone).
I have also heard Basque, Frisian, Kitsekiri, and Cilapalapa at different times. But Cornish was the rarest of all.
2006-08-11 09:21:48 · answer #3 · answered by insincere 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch Discovery.
2006-08-11 04:40:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arabic
2006-08-11 04:40:05 · answer #5 · answered by j@mE$ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Khoi-San language. An example: "!ke e: /xarra //ke" which is our national motto (lol, don't know what it means, though I've learnt the fiendishly difficult pronunciation).
2006-08-11 05:59:45 · answer #6 · answered by mala k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sanskrit.
2006-08-11 04:40:56 · answer #7 · answered by ash_m_79 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burmese and Tibetan. But Schwytzertuutsch" (Swiss German) can be pretty obscure even for German speakers...
2006-08-11 06:47:28 · answer #8 · answered by Cristian Mocanu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aromanian. it's a type of Romanian, spoken in Macedonia.
2006-08-11 04:41:08 · answer #9 · answered by ♫Pavic♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say Esperanto, which sounds like Spanish, but isn't quite.
2006-08-11 04:55:21 · answer #10 · answered by Companion Wulf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋