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Er... well. Yes.

Yep Krabo, she's speaking Afrikaans. It sounds as though one of the cheetahs is named Meisie, which translates simply as "Girl" or "Girlie".

Thanks for the language identification enviro. I thought it was Afrikaans. I am familiar with the sound of Dutch (although I don't understand it), and it sounds rather similar, just with a different 'accent'.

As a matter of linguistic interest, the word ewe (female sheep) is found in at least two other South African languages but with completely different meanings:

ewe (Afrikaans pronounced like ear-va) can be translated as "just as" or "equally" as in Hy is ewe tevrede met die uitslag" (He is just as satisfied with the result)

ewe (pronouced like air-ware but with a very short "ware" sound) is the Xhosa word for Yes.

Isn't Xhosa the language with those peculiar clicks?

Yes there quite a lot of clicks in Xhosa.


http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/tong ... sters.html

NEW! Iqaqa laqabaleka iqhini latyibalika laqhawula uqhoqhoqho

I would like to hear a Finnish-Xhosa Creole.

Do you think there are any Finnish Xhosa Creole people out there? It seems an unlikely meeting. Or maybe someone studied the other ones.

I hate to admit it, but my language interests are very European based. In the handful of languages I would like to learn, there is not one African or Asian language.

If I were learning languages right now, I'd be especially interested in what are currently some of the more pivotal Asian languages - Chinese, Hindi and Arabic for instance.

It's complicated by the fact that the rules are vastly different, critically when it comes to the writing systems. It is admittedly more natural to learn something close-ish to home, though even some European languages have some major twists and turns in them for a native English speaker.

Africa has so many languages, and my interest is partly utilitarian... kind of hard to pick just one, as such. Xhosa or Afrikaans would definitely be interesting.

Oh, I forgot Russian; Russian would be fun too. That may qualify as both a European and Asian language.

You see, although I understand how big and important some of those languages are, they just don't appeal to me.

Russian is definitely on my list though.

In my opinion, Arabic script is the most beautiful way of writing.

Yes, it does look pretty.