Interesting Facts About Language by Hendriadi Yasir https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5 Made with whimsy en-us 2018-01-11 03:21:59 UTC 2018-01-11 04:36:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Indonesian language only use one word for a third person which is 'dia' or 'ia'. It is a gender neutral word but sometimes it is difficult to infer whether the person being spoken is either male or female. hendriadi https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220445085 2018-01-11 03:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220445085 Javanese languages has three type of vocabularies depending to whom the speaker talk to. They are Ngoko which is used to someone younger or less experienced, Krama Madya is used to colleagues or people with the same age and Krama Inggil is used in the palace or for someone older. This represents the richness of this language but at same time prevents it, albeit spoken by a large part of the population in Indonesia, for being used as national language. hendriadi https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220445394 2018-01-11 03:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220445394 History of languages https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449913 Long time ago, all the Asians and Europeans used to interact using only one language that is Sanskrit. As the days passed, the desire of simplifying the language grew because they believed that Sanskrit contains complicated words which not everyone were able to use them. 
Due to the inappropriate incidence such as corruption, etc., the had been begun, then automatically the countries were divided, introduced new culture and the languages were simplified according to their convenience, but somehow, in our present period, we can still find the words that proves that the languages were interconnected to each other long ago.


]]> 2018-01-11 04:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449913 mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449954 The arabic language has long and short vowels that affects the pronunciation for certain word. And if we do not emphasise the vowel, it might change the meaning of the word. For example, if we say lam it means certain, but if we pronounce it with a long vowel, it will mean no.]]> 2018-01-11 04:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449954 Lolzie mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449958 In German, every word has a gender. Der is masculine, die is feminine, and das is genderless/neutral. Apparently, 'girl' doesn't have a gender (das Mädchen) and SOMEHOW, turnip does (die Steckrübe).]]> 2018-01-11 04:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449958 Chinese dialects mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449981 Chinese Has a classification of dialects and how each dialects are read and pronounced is very different even tho they're reading the same thing. The classification between dialects are specified based on regions ]]> 2018-01-11 04:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449981 mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449984 "I am" is the shortest complete English sentence.]]> 2018-01-11 04:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449984 Korean has two different counting systems veronika_donatta https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449985 The Korean language has two different language system. The first counting system is the "native" in which is used to count hours, objects, age and it only goes up to 99. The second counting system/ Sino–Korean is based on the Chinese characters; It is used to count currency, dates, distance, minutes and the numbers can be higher than 99. 

Example: 
The first counting system 
1 (hana), 2 (dul), 3 (sehtt), 4 (nehtt) 

The second counting system
1 (il), 2 (i), 3 (sam), 4 (sa) ]]> 2018-01-11 04:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220449985 mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450199 1. Every country has different onomatopoeias . In English crunchy food go snap, crackle, pop. In Indonesia, crunchy food go kriuk - kriuk. 

2. No word rhymes with orange.

3. During World War II, the US uses Navajo People as radio operators to develop codes from their native language.]]> 2018-01-11 04:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450199 mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450423 The word "I" is the oldest word in the English Language]]> 2018-01-11 04:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450423 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450426 Chinese words relies heavily on its tone. If you say a word or two without using any tone, the chinese people will not understand. However if it is in a sentence, there is a chance that they will somewhat understand.]]> 2018-01-11 04:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450426 There are 2.700 Language mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450463 there are approximately 7.000 individual dialects that are spoken today, but the most common language that are being spoke right now are English, Mandarin, Spanish and Hindi.]]> 2018-01-11 04:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450463 mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450466 In Bahasa Indonesia, there are several words that have more than one meaning. The example is the word 'bisa' which can mean can/able or venom. It's known as homonym. ]]> 2018-01-11 04:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450466 Every two weeks, another language dies mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450492 There are over 231 languages completely extinct and 2,400 of the world’s languages are considered to be in danger of dying out.]]> 2018-01-11 04:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450492 The longest common english word without vowels is "rhythms" mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450493 2018-01-11 04:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450493 Spell the 'O' https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450507 There are 13 ways to spell the 'o' sound in French. 
- Shizuka]]> 2018-01-11 04:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450507 There is no word in the english language that rhymes perfectly with orange mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450615 2018-01-11 04:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450615 There are 50,000 characters in the Chinese language. You’ll need to know about 2,000 to read a newspaper. mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450674 2018-01-11 04:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450674 There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly 5 types of clicks mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450755 2018-01-11 04:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450755 mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450908 The longest english word has 45 letters "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" which is a type of lung disease that is caused by inhaling ash and dust]]> 2018-01-11 04:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450908 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450982 830 the number of languages in Papua New Guinea.]]> 2018-01-11 04:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220450982 Fite me mendel2 https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220451166 The longest German word has 65 letters, "Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz" which means law delegating beef label monitoring.]]> 2018-01-11 04:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hendriadi/cqxe2xyuffw5/wish/220451166