9 languages of the earth with fancy features

Anyone who has ever tried to learn a foreign language knows how hard it is. Even the most simple of them studying one only verb endings can take a good half of the year. And it is only among the European languages! If a little distracted from the Indo-European group, you can find the examples of grammatical rules that can truly drive you crazy.

Touka require to explain

The members of the tribe touka

When we teach children their native language, then explain to them the simple things even simpler. Children's books you can find such sentences as "a boy playing ball." When the kids learn to understand simple statements, we can move on to more complex designs. But in the language of touka it is not so. From the beginning, from the very first sentences should explain everything.

Language touka speaks less than a thousand people, and it does not just something to say. You are required to specify where or how you know. For example, instead of "Boy playing ball" you should say something like "Boy playing ball, and I know this because I see it." In a similar way is based conditional model "the Boy playing ball, I'm guessing," which has a slightly different connotation than in the Russian language.

And this is not the only feature of touki. According to some estimates, in the language which has 140 genera, among which there is one dedicated to objects resembling removed bark of the tree.

In chalcatongo issues impossible

Native speakers of chalcatongo

Have you ever thought how easy it is to ask a question in the Russian language? Think now. Almost all of you have drawn attention to the word order and even remembered intonation. But if we were talking on chalcatongo, surely you would feel confused. In this language there are no indicators of the question.

All of the languages of small Nations of Mexico, chalcatongo studied by the best way, it is possible to find at least one study grammar, but there is no mention of grammatical signs of General questions (requiring a "Yes" or "no") in the language. By themselves these questions, of course, exist, but no features of intonation, special parts of the sentence, inversion or question words that help you determine if waiting for a response from you. This can be understood solely from the context.

Aboriginal languages of Australia — crazy jazz

Aborigine Of Australia

Languages Australian peoples unique due to its almost complete isolation for tens of thousands of years. Although they cannot be called the most incomprehensible language, yet for Europeans, they sound very strange. And their grammatical construction includes a plurality of particles, completely alien to Germanic or Latin roots. According to the encyclopedia Britannica, the majority of aboriginal languages is also not a fixed word order.

In practice, this means that it can jump, flow and change, like jazz improvisation, words can appear anywhere in the sentence only one desire of the speaker. That is, instead of the usual sentence "This galloping language is quite amazing," you could say "the Language is quite this amazing jumping", or "Jumping quite this amazing language", or in any other variations. And your sides will still understand you.

In fairness, I must say that the rules in this language still exist. Exactly the same rules as basic structures for jazz improvisation, aboriginal languages of Australia require the addition of certain suffixes to help people decipher your statement. But once you master them, you can put words in any order.

The Thai language has a special form of the pronoun "you", which is used only in relation to the king

Thai king

It's hard to say with any objectivity, why Thailand is so popular king. On the one hand, people are talking about him with great love, on the other, he put an end to the ten conspiracies, and the law forbids speaking ill of him. However, in the language of such a duality does not arise, because Thai has a special form of pronoun to refer to the king in the abstract conversation or for personal reference.

The so-called racasa, or "Royal language" has existed for more than 700 years, and in all that time, he has not changed. It uses various combinations of old Khmer words and prefixes along with the usual Thai roots, making it both similar and not similar to other forms of language. Although almost all the Thai people well enough to understand racasa, it is apparently difficult to speak due to the lack of opportunities for most Thais to practice (how often you can chat with the king?). However, it is still used regularly in the news and various reports of the life of the king.

Berik obsessed with time

A native of Berwick

Russian language, as a European, rather ambiguous. When someone asks us where we've been, we can simply say: "Sitting in a bar", without specifying that were "not yet kicked, and therefore became ill on the street." But not all languages are possible, such as gray spots. For speakers of boericke in New Guinea just need to indicate exactly when there was some action.

This is because the proposal is indicated by the termination of the verb, and often it is impossible to build the sentence without this vital information. Therefore, at that time, as in Russian we can say: "I had a drink" on the Berich just need to clarify, "I had a drink in the middle of the day." And this is not limited to showing the time. If we are talking about objects, the verb endings indicate their size and number, so you will be able to transmit the phrase "I did six roses in the moonlight" in one word!

This completes the confusion must specify the locations for some verbs. This means that your partner will know who she is, not just where and when did you described actions, but how many and what objects were involved. When a specific grammar of any grey spots just become white...

Sign language of the Bedouins violates all possible rules

Bedouin

Although the Russian language has several hundred thousand words, the number of sounds is still quite limited. Phonetic set of Russian vowels and consonants has only 42 of the sound, and they are sufficient to build as out of LEGO, various words and sentences. In this way construct, all languages on earth... but not al-sayeski sign language.

The language spoken by only a handful of people of the district of the Negev in Israel, there is no duplicate sign. If you are trying to understand what in this amazing, imagine that every word in this article is presented in a unique sound and writing. The language of the Bedouins sounds are not repeated, there is not even common in European languages the so-called seam (vowel in the middle row of the middle rise, similar to something between "a", "e" and "o"). This is al-sayeski: every noun, verb and pronoun has its own unique gesture in which there is even a small part of any other.

But what's really surprising is the fact that other similar sign languages use the same LEGO construction method of long words and phrases, and natural. Some scholars suggest that al-sayeski just a very young language, and everything changes when his carriers will depart from such gestures. Currently, however, it is still surprisingly unique.

In pirahan no time

The inhabitants of the piraha tribe

The language spoken by only one tribe in Brazil, but it is unique in many ways, not least because it has absolutely no concept of time.

This means that the speaker is simply impossible to build a proposal that unfold in time from the past to the future. If we need to say something like "I promise to do the job after you read this post," on pirahana we can only say "I end the post, I'm doing work." There is no way to determine have you finished work, currently working or going. All of it is in strong trap of the present moment.

The result is a culture that knows almost nothing about his past or future. According to the linguist Daniel Everett, who lived among the piraha people for seven years, "the whole experience is included in the present time." Mother of piraha tell no tales, men don't brag about their past victories, and the children almost immediately forget about grandparents, as soon as they die. Although this culture is now open and is changing due to the educational project of the Brazilian government, it is unknown how these new developments will affect pirahan.

German proposals marathon

The People Of Germany

Although German is relatively close to English that we teach everything from the very childhood, he is, without a doubt, it gives learners a lot of problems. One of them starts when you use compound words. In German it is normal to say something like: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

The word of 63 characters represents the "Law on the delegation of duties for supervision of horned cattle and the labeling of beef". But even such trudnosmyvaemye words tongue twisters lose German sentences, which can not only last forever, but force you to be in suspense until the very end.

Ironically syntactic constructions German verbs appear at the end of the phrase. So, instead of the phrase "I played football in my father's house on Thursday," you would say something like, "In my father's house on Thursday in football I played." This is easily understood in short sentences, but becomes more difficult in the long, and some German sayings seem to last forever. First you have to go through all the details of when, where, how, why, and for whom something has happened, before you finally find that something just happened.

And to really finish off the reader, the negation is placed at the very end, so you can spend a full two minutes, examining the complicated history only to realize that none of this actually did not happen. It's like listening to a long skein only to the end to hear that you really didn't.

Burushaski is incredibly sensitive to noise

The native speakers of burushaski

North-Pakistani burushaski language spoken by about 90,000 people, absolutely unique. Linguists still couldn't find genetically similar language, what is even more impressive when you realize that even the strangest languages belong to a language family. Burushaski has a number of features that are alien to the Russian manner of speech, the most famous of which may be its sensitivity to noise.

In the Russian language we usually use sound to enhance the description. We can say "the door quietly opened" or "the door opened with difficulty" or even "he heard the door opened". For speakers of burushaski is impossible. In this language the word changes depending on, loud or quiet the action has been performed.

Take, for example, the same door. In burushaski, there are three separate words action door: one is used when it opens very quietly, another when it was just quiet, but not too much, and the third when the door opens loudly. So often achieved very accurate values of the statements, especially if they say something very loud.