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14 Mar 2008, 11:21 am

Wow, laguage from a video game.

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14 Mar 2008, 1:43 pm

I checked Lodjan, a constructed language?

At least Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English and Russian are actual spoken languages.

By the way, I got a taste of how similiar Afrikaans and Dutch are, but not quite.

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14 Mar 2008, 4:14 pm

You mean Lojban, yes, it's constructed and totally unambiguous.

Klingon:
wa'
cha'
wej
loS
vagh
jav
Soch
chorgh
Hut
maH

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14 Mar 2008, 4:29 pm

SilverProteus wrote:

German:

eins
zwei
drei
vier
fünf
sechs
sieben
acht
neun
zehn

(I hope I got the spelling right)

If you meant the German numbers, they're perfectly correct.

Bozewani wrote:

In russian
adin
dva
trie
chia
mat
ses
sem
vosem
devet
diec

and the Cyrillic alphabet sucks in English

Does the forums show these?

один
два
три
четыре
пятъ
шестъ
семъ
восемъ
девятъ
десятъ

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14 Mar 2008, 4:37 pm

The Yellow Submarine

1
2
3
4
Can I have a little more
5
6
7
8
9
10
I luv you

A
B
C
D
Can I bring my friend for tea

E
F
G
H
And
I
J
I luv you

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14 Mar 2008, 6:33 pm

Latin

unus
duo
tres
quattuor
quinque
sex
septem
octo
novem
decem

The latter numbers are where we get the names for the months
September,October,November and December as these
were originally the 7th,8th,9th and 10th months in the Roman year.

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14 Mar 2008, 8:16 pm

Chemical prefixes in organic chemistry:

Meth
Eth
Pro
But
Pent
Hex
Hept
Oct
Non
Dec

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14 Mar 2008, 8:32 pm

Cool.

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01 May 2008, 1:24 pm

in Shona
Piri
Motsi
Tatu
China
shanu
tanhatu
nomwe
sere
pfumbamwe
gumi

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01 May 2008, 3:08 pm

sheken wrote:

in hebrew:

ehad
shtaim
shalosh
arba
hamesh
shesh
sheva
shmone
tesha
eser

And the masculine forms:
achat
shtei
shlosha
arba'a
chamisha
shisha
shiv'a
shmona
tish'a
asara

Quenya:
Minë
Atta
Neldë
Canta
Lempë
Enquë
Otso
Tolto
Nertë
Cainen

A language called Adeyan thatI invented that no one else knows:
lu
to
re
se
cu
fri
de
za
the
thelu

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01 May 2008, 6:09 pm

Welsh:

un
dau
tri
pedwar
pump
chwech
saith
wyth
naw
deg

Latvian:

viens
divi
trīs
četri
pieci
seši
septiņi
astoņi
deviņi
desmit

Albanian:

një
dy
tre
katër
pesë
gjashtë
shtatë
tetë
nëntë
dhjetë

Basque:

bat
bi
hiru
lau
bost
sei
zazpi
zortzi
bederatzi
hamar

faiuwle wrote:

A language called Adeyan thatI invented that no one else knows:
lu
to
re
se
cu
fri
de
za
the
thelu

Cool. Here's the numbers from my language:
oinu
dvo
trej
kvetür
kempu
seys
sebru
hestë
neven
det

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01 May 2008, 6:22 pm

1
10
11
100
101
110
111
1000
1001
1010

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01 May 2008, 7:25 pm

Proto-indoeuropean:

1. HoiHnos
2. duoh
3. treies
4. kʷetuōr
5. penkʷe
6. (s)uéks
7. séptm
8. h₃eḱteh₃
9. (h₁)néun
10. déḱmt

I officially own the world.

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02 May 2008, 5:28 pm

twoshots wrote:

Proto-indoeuropean:

1. HoiHnos
2. duoh
3. treies
4. kʷetuōr
5. penkʷe
6. (s)uéks
7. séptm
8. h₃eḱteh₃
9. (h₁)néun
10. déḱmt

I officially own the world.

Epic win.

Now I'm gonna spoil it by saying that duoh should be duoh₁. Sorry.

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02 May 2008, 7:02 pm

Braille

Counting to Ten in Octal:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
10
11
12

Counting to 30 in Hex:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
1A
1B
1C
1D
1E

Whisper to me in Hex . . . :twisted:

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03 May 2008, 2:32 am

Quote:

faiuwle wrote:

A language called Adeyan thatI invented that no one else knows:
lu
to
re
se
cu
fri
de
za
the
thelu

Cool. Here's the numbers from my language:
oinu
dvo
trej
kvetür
kempu
seys
sebru
hestë
neven
det

Neat. What is it? Some a Romance-derived?

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