Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel Ridings wrote: >>I recall reading somewhere recently that Euskara is the only >>non-Indo-European language spoken in Europe. Is that correct? > > > Ken, > > I don't think Basque counts as an indoeuropean language. Finnish and > Hungarian certainly aren't. I'm not sure of the status of Albanian. I > suspect it is, but is in a separate family from most familiar ones. > > Then you have Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Somalian, Shona in > the UK (Harare North), and a couple of dozen of others. > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > I speak English as a native, French, some Italian and some Russian. Understand bits of others with some effort. Despite my surname I speak very little Polish. On the subject of languages I was surprised to find that according to the Mayor of London's Office there are now over 300 languages spoken in the capital which apparently makes it the most linguistically diverse city anywhere. It is said that if you come to London from (almost) anywhere there is someone who speaks your language - probably exaggerated but an interesting statement nonetheless. Peter Dzwig Is this on-topic? Oh silly question!