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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Turkmenistan!

31May

By Gareth SeagullNo Comments

Learning Languages

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Turkmenistan!

A country in Central Asia, Turkmenistan is a nation perhaps best known for not being much of a nation at all, instead being a loosely united collection of nomadic tribes. In part due to this nomadic nature, the languages of Turkmenistan are immensely diverse. That, coupled with Turkmenistan's long history of being a part of many different empires, has only added to the country's linguistic diversity making it a truly unique case on the global scale. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Turkmenistan Turkmen Russian Other Languages of Turkmenistan Uzbek Kazakh Tatar Ukrainian Azerbaijani Armenian Kurdish Lezgian Persian Belarusian Erzya Korean Bashkir Ossetian Lak Tajik ...

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Tajikistan!

17May

By David Ratón GonzalesNo Comments

Learning Languages

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Tajikistan!

A tiny landlocked nation in Central Asia, Tajikistan is perhaps best known for its impressive mountains and lakes. But the languages of Tajikistan are arguably just as impressive, coming from all over the world. And this makes sense, seeing as how Tajikistan is as the crossroad of the near-east, far-east and south-east Asia, and thus the crossroad of literally of dozens of language families... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Tajikistan Tajik Russian Indigenous Languages of Tajikistan Rushani Ishkashimi Khowar Bukhori Aimaqi Uighur Parya Yazgulyan Parmir Shughni Khufi Pashto Kyrgyz Bartangi Yaghnobi Wakhi Minority Languages of Tajikistan Uzbek Belarusian A...

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Kyrgyzstan!

10May

By Chloe HarmonNo Comments

Learning Languages

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Kyrgyzstan!

A post-Soviet state located in Asia, Kyrgyzstan probably isn't a country you tend to think about all that often. Most famous for its mountains, the languages of Kyrgyzstan are perhaps just as intriguing! Though not as diverse as some other countries, Kyrgyzstan is home to languages from six language families found on every continent, both with native and second language speakers in the country... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Kyrgyzstan Russian Kyrgyz Minority Languages of Kyrgyzstan Kazakh Uighur Tajik Foreign Languages of Kyrgyzstan English French German Arabic Chinese

12Nov

By George SanghviNo Comments

Facts

12 useless languages

When it comes to learning languages, linguists normally have their heart set know a few to learn. Normally, this is because there is something particular that the language has to offer, or that it will be useful in later life. But, not all languages are equal, some are useless languages that serve little to no purpose for the speaker. I was recently talking with some translator friends of mine when we got around to how translators show off to non-translators. After much back and forth, we came to one that most of us had done- use a language we didn't know to impress someone- usually a girl they liked. Most of the time, these languages were useless languages spoken by less than 10 million people in Africa, or a small pocket elsewhere in Europe. Or better still, they were ...