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I'm thinking it's Basque, but I don't know for sure.

2007-08-09 08:12:04 · 4 answers · asked by rfiskt 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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Good question! Look at this horrific copy from the internet:

Basque
Basque, a language isolate, is an extremely inflected language, heavily inflecting both nouns and verbs. A Basque noun is inflected in 17 different ways for case, multiplied by 4 ways for its definiteness and number. These first 68 forms are further modified based on other parts of the sentence, which in turn are inflected for the noun again. It is been estimated that at two levels of recursion, a Basque noun may have 458,683 inflected forms (Agirre et al, 1992). Verb forms are similarly complex, agreeing with the subject, the direct object and several other arguments.

I'll stick to Indo-European languages.

2007-08-09 08:37:37 · answer #1 · answered by JJ 7 · 3 0

I was thinking Chinese, but from googling, it looks like Basque may be more so.. that must make writings tough to interpret

2007-08-09 08:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by itsjunglepat 6 · 1 1

your right it is basque

2007-08-09 08:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I think it's Finnish.

2007-08-09 15:18:43 · answer #4 · answered by bryan_q 7 · 0 0

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