mine are latin and old greek, and maybe sign language, but i don't know how to ( not ) speak it...
2006-08-28 13:51:32 · 22 answers · asked by ixat02 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
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.
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2006-08-28 14:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-28 14:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't speak all but 1 language
2006-08-28 13:55:59 · answer #3 · answered by higginslove3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't speak any of the languages except for English and German.
2006-08-28 21:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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)
2006-08-28 16:01:51 · answer #5 · answered by Ananke402 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't speak Tagalog (yes, it's a real language).
2006-08-28 14:00:20 · answer #6 · answered by Terisu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't speak about 6000 languages.
2006-08-28 14:58:03 · answer #7 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't speak any but English. Does it really matter?
2006-08-28 13:57:38 · answer #8 · answered by icemom4ever 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Estimates range from 3000-4 to 10000-2 depending on the definition of language and your generosity with my German and Italian.
2006-08-28 14:08:30 · answer #9 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2016-03-26 23:29:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋