Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: OT:How many languages do you speak?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Tue Nov 9 10:45:06 2004

Fluently: Flemish, Dutch, French, English, German
Basics: Italian, Spanish
Continuous learning: Femalian
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> From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:38:24 +0100 (MET)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: OT:How many languages do you speak?
> 
>> I recall reading somewhere recently that Euskara is the only
>> non-Indo-European language spoken in Europe.  Is that correct?
> 
> Ken,
> 
> I don't think Basque counts as an indoeuropean language. Finnish and
> Hungarian certainly aren't. I'm not sure of the status of Albanian. I
> suspect it is, but is in a separate family from most familiar ones.
> 
> Then you have Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Somalian, Shona in
> the UK (Harare North), and a couple of dozen of others.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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Replies: Reply from gwpics at lycos.co.uk (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] Digilux and flash)
Reply from tarek.charara at pix-that-stimulate.com (Tarek Charara) ([Leica] Re: OT:How many languages do you speak?)
In reply to: Message from daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Re: OT:How many languages do you speak?)