{"id":2303,"date":"2022-06-27T11:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillmantranslations.com\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:31:26","slug":"the-worlds-weirdest-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillmantranslations.com\/fr\/the-worlds-weirdest-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The World’s Weirdest language"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mix of vowels, the lack of them, sounds and rhythms make up strange languages.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What makes languages weird?<\/strong> Which are the weirdest languages<\/strong> in the world?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Rolf Theul, a linguistics professor <\/strong>at the University of Oslo, the weirdest language<\/strong> in the world is without a doubt Pirah\u00e3. For others though, English meets eye to eye with no one, since it seems to contain more atypical features<\/strong> than over 80% of the other languages,<\/strong> even if it doesn\u2019t sound weird.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a walk of a few crazy languages<\/strong> you could encounter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Vadim Bogulov<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The problem with too many and too little  <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Did you know Slovak has 14 vowels?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

a, \u00e1 , \u00e4, e, \u00e9, i, \u00ed, y, \u00fd, o, \u00f3, \u00f4, u, \u00fa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And using the wrong vowels can completely change the meaning<\/strong> of the word. And even though the \u201cy\u201d and \u201c\u00ed\u201d sound the same as \u201c\u00fd\u201d, differentiating them in written language is imperative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example<\/a>, if somebody comments \u201cpekn\u00fd\u201d, it means good-looking in singular masculine. But if the comment is \u201cpekn\u00ed\u201d then it\u2019s a compliment to everyone in the picture.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the standard for vowels<\/strong> though?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most written languages use one of three systems: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Letters for syllables (usually a consonant + a vowel)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Letters for all phonemes (i.e., for both consonants and vowels) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Letters for just consonant phonemes and not for the vowels (or most of the vowels).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hebrew and Arabic, for example, have consonant sounds and no letters for vowel sounds or only some of the vowel sounds. According to the \u201cVowels\u201d entry in Wikipedia, \u201cnearly all languages have at least three phonemic vowels, usually \/i\/, \/a\/, \/u\/. Very few languages have fewer, though some Arrernte, Circassian, and Ndu languages have been argued to have just two, \/\u0259\/ and \/a\/.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you pronounce words with no vowels? The Masoretes added points under the consonants to tell you how to pronounce them. So in this sense, 14 vowels are weirder<\/strong> than none. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchu: crazy vowel sounds <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yet, classical Manchu has one of the weirdest vowel inventories<\/strong> encountered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because even if there are absurdly large or small vowel sets, they are in general fairly ‘balanced’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Turkish vowel chart, on the other hand, is a watch-the-world-burn endeavor. Turkish vowel phonemes are defined by more or less height, backness, and roundness.<\/strong> And all the possible combinations of those three variables. And one step further, you have Manchu.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchu Vowels<\/a> have four different vowel heights on their 6 vowels. It has one front vowel, two central vowels, and 3 back vowels, all differentiated only by height.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piraha: an expert’s pick  <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe weirdest language <\/strong>in the world is without a doubt Pirah\u00e3,\u201d says Rolf Theil.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This linguistics professor from the University of Oslo picked his favorite among thousands. There are drum languages<\/strong> in Africa. A whistling language<\/strong> is found on the Canary Islands. Both help sound travel more easily across their environment and reach out to others amidst the jungle. But he chose the language of the Pirah\u00e3s, native from the Amazon jungle of Brazil and darlings of language researchers.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Chinese, Pirah\u00e3 is a tonal language.<\/strong> The difference between friend and enemy is that the melody differs, so watch your tone. But aside from that, the way they conjugate, express, and reflect the world is radically different from what we know.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has few words for relatives. They are satisfied with stating who is older, who is a peer, and who are children. That is all. Differentiating between women and men, since they are specific regarding consonants. And since it\u2019s such a melodic language, <\/strong>different social groups can express themselves so distinctly that they have different consonants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another crazy fact is that the Pirah\u00e3 people live in the here and now. So you can forget about conjugating verbs in the future or past tense.<\/strong> Nor do they have singular or plural nouns. They might be talking about one man or many men, the context tells which. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Pirah\u00e3 is one of, if not the only, language in the world that lacks a recursive structure. The phrase \u201cJohn thinks Mery is mad because Paul left again\u201d would be impossible. One would have to say \u201cPaul left. Mery got mad. John thinks that.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chances are, you won\u2019t need to learn the weirdest languages <\/strong>around. But if you need a hand with your vowels, contact our language experts<\/strong> at Stillman.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mix of vowels, the lack of them, sounds and rhythms make up strange languages. What makes languages weird? Which are the weirdest languages in the world?   For Rolf Theul, a linguistics professor at the University of Oslo, the weirdest language in the world is without a doubt Pirah\u00e3. 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