What is the most exotic language?
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What is the most exotic language?
What is the most exotic language?
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I don't know what you mean by exotic but I like Persian due to its simplicity and poetry
Something that is both obscure or difficult and spoken by very few people.
I kind of like the how the Middle Eastern languages sound. Like this arabic song for example.
Manchu
>20 native speakers[1] (2007)[2]
They're down to 15 now IIRC.
how did that happen?
Manchu Rulers wanting to be Chinese Emperors badly.
Manchu Rulers ordering the entire Manchu nation to accompany them and settle in provinces around Beijing & getting mutted by Chinese.
Mandarin being Imperial Lingua Franca meant Manchu was a pointless language.
I want to be able to read arabic, it looks neat and you can make interesting art with it
You mean the Persian script.
>You mean the Persian script.
Pirahã in terms of sheer weirdness.
Never thought a language would have the sound of blowing a raspberry as a phoneme.
Pirahã looks like a constructed language.
Kartvelian
The garifuna people in Honduras use two separate carib languages, one just for men and one just for women. I guess that's pretty exotic
arabic, ossetic and chagatai
Obviously mandarin followed by Hindi
Mandarin is ear rape.
>So how many vowels does your language have?
>Vowels?
Obscure jungle languages of Brazil
For some reason it was calculated to be mixtec.
Romanian doesn't have grammatical questions either.
How does that work?
Context.
>no definitive yes or no
Like Latin or to a lesser extent Chinese, the most spoken language on earth
>it has no known language ancestors
Like Korean
Next.
Hungarian, shit's crazy yo
this.
Hungarian is only crazy in Europe. It's absolutely average and boring in Central Asia and Western Siberia.
>exotic
why do we even use this word when there's general confusion about its semantic function?
ἐξωτῐκός - outlying, outlier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil
For an English speaker, probably a minor Chinese language. I see some mentioning Arabic but it's pretty similar to European languages in terms of grammar and use of alphabet, it can't be the most exotic.
in terms of beauty, Spanish
in terms of overall weirdnes, probably some intermediary dialect like Breton or Luxembourgish. French when combined with any non-Romance language in a heavy handed way reads like astute gibberish
I guess if you count obscurity, maybe northern Japan's Ainu language or Basque
most beautiful alphabets are thailand georgia arabic hindi hebrew chinese in that order followed by gothic and latin
A language isolate with no alive relatives, like Basque
I agree. Gotta be an isolate.
Burmese:
It's a highly tonal language that actually takes volume into account, it's highly inflected (tense, mood, cases, politeness changes the words), syllable timed, has different written and spoken grammar and vocabulary, honorifics change entire sentences, has something like 8 cases. And their writing system based on circles is an abugida with a stroke order like Chinese characters.
syllabic writing systems are incredibly based, especially if each root syllable has fundamental meaning
ge'ez etheopian bottom of the nile semitic alphabet
The language of the north sentinelese.
Klingon or evlish
Blackfoot
Why
Blackfoot's grammar is pretty typical for an Algonquian language. It has undergone some bizarre sound changes since the time of Proto-Algonquian, but there are definitely stranger languages.
ancient portuguese