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Idibon haben sich auf Natural Language Processing und haben als Nebenprodukt ihrer Arbeit eine Topliste der seltsamsten Sprachen der Welt erarbeitet. Die weirdeste Sprache der Welt ist Mixtec, ein Dialekt aus Mexiko und es wundert mich, dass Deutsch nicht auf Platz Eins steht. Aber hey: Platz 10 als echt seltsame Sprache ist auch nicht schlecht.
1. Chalcatongo Mixtec (Mexico)
2. Nenets (Russland)
3. Choctaw (Native American, Tennessee)
4. Diegueño (Native American, California)
5. Oromo (Ethiopia)
6. Kutenai (Native American, Idaho)
7. Iraqw (Tanzania)
8. Kongo (Congo, Angola)
9. Armenian (Eastern)
10. German
Der ganze Beitrag ist superinteressanter Stoff für jeden, der sich auch nur halbwegs für Linguistik interessiert:
The World Atlas of Language Structures evaluates 2,676 different languages in terms of a bunch of different language features. These features include word order, types of sounds, ways of doing negation, and a lot of other things—192 different language features in total.
[…] we evaluate each language in terms of how unusual it is for each feature. For example, English word order is subject-verb-object—there are 1,377 languages that are coded for word order in WALS and 35.5% of them have SVO word order. Meanwhile only 8.7% of languages start with a verb—like Welsh, Hawaiian and Majang—so cross-linguistically, starting with a verb is unusual. For what it’s worth, 41.0% of the world’s languages are actually SOV order.
THE WEIRDEST LANGUAGES (via MeFi)
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