Rules: Identify the language, that is, say something intelligent about it. Possibilities include where it is spoken, what race or ethnicity the speakers are, whether the language is extinct or extant and what shape the language is in, to what general or specific language families the language belongs, and anything else intelligent you can think of about the language etc. You’re not supposed to look it up; anyone can do that. You’re supposed to do it off the top of your head, ideally.
1. Ladin
2. Ladino
3. Ladakhi
4. Lezgian
5. Lingala
6. Livonian
7. Luganda
8. Lycian
9. Maithili
10. Manchu
11. Mandinga
12. Manipuri
13. Manx
14. Mapuche
15. Marathi
16. Mbala
17. Mende
18. Micmac
19. Milanese
20. Mojave
2 Ladino is a language derived from Spanish spoken by some Jews in the Muslims world. Those Jews are the descendants of the unconverted Jews expelled by Spain in 1492.
10 Manchu is spoken in North Eastern China.
16 Micmac is spoken by Amerindians in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
19 Milanese must be the dialect of Milan.
I guess I’m not a professional linguist
Good job!
Your description of Ladino is excellent.
Manchu is a Tungusic language spoken in NE China that is critically endangered and down to 70 speakers or so.
Micmac is an Algonquian language spoken in Canada, yes. It is also spoken in New Brunswick and Quebec.
Milanese is indeed the dialect of Milan. It is actually a dialect of the Lombard language.
You have done quite well actually!
4. Lezgian – one of the languages of Dagestan in southern Russia. A member of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is spoken by Lezgins, one of the major ethnic groups in Dagestan (there are more than 30 ethnic/linguistic groups in Dagestan). It probably has somewhere between 20,000 and 250,000 speakers, and is therefore one of the largest languages of Dagestan in terms of number of speakers.
6. Livonian – a Uralic/Finnic language spoken somewhere in Russia near St. Petersburg and near the SE Finnish border. It is probably spoken by less than 1,000 people and may be near extinction if not already extinct.
13. Manx – spoken on the Isle of Man. One of the Celtic languages, in the group with Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. Manx went extinct in the 20th century although it is trying to be revived. Probably spoken by less than 100 people.
Great description of Lezgian. It has 800,000 speakers, 400,000 each in Dagestan and Azerbaijan.
Liv, or Livonian, is spoken in Latvia, yes, and it is Finnic. It is nearly extinct, yes, as it has only 15-35 speakers. There are revival efforts underway though.
Good description of Manx. I believe there are now up 1,700 speakers of varying proficiency, all second language learners. But some people are raising their kids with Manx. There are about 100 competent speakers.
3. Indian or Himalayan state
4. lesbian ventriloquist
5. Africa somewhere
6. East Europe somewhere?
7. as 5
8. Werewolf
9. as 5
11. Definitely African, maybe Caribbean too
12. guess Indonesia or some othe S.E Asian
13. Isle of Man
16. as 5
20. That’s hard. Native American – Arizona, New Mexico.
Yes, Ladakhi is spoken in India in Ladakh.
Lingala, Luganda and Mbala are spoken in Africa, yes. Mandinga is spoken in Africa only.
Liv is spoken in Latvia.
Maithili and Manipuri are actually spoken in India, Manipuri in the state of Manipur.
Yes, Mojave is an Amerindian language spoken in California and Arizona. It has 75 speakers left.
Not bad!
Mapuche — the language of the american indians of Central and Southern Chile. It’s still somewhat spoken on the island of Chiloe.
Yes, correct!
However, what is spoken on Chiloe I believe is some sort of Spanish-Mapuche creole that is going extinct. The actual Mapuche language is doing quite well and has about 240,000-700,000 speakers yet.
OK, let’s try.
1. Ladin
I don’t know
2. Ladino
Spoken by Spanish Jews.
3. Ladakhi
I don’t know.
4. Lezgian
I dunno.
5. Lingala
Some African language.
6. Livonian
Some former baltic language
7. Luganda
spoken in Uganda
8. Lycian
I don’t know
9. Maithili
I don’t know
10. Manchu
Spoken in Manchuria (currenty no speakers)
11. Mandinga
Maybe some African
12. Manipuri
I don’t know
13. Manx
Spoken on the manx Island, In Great Britian.
14. Mapuche
I don’t know
15. Marathi
Some Indian language
16. Mbala
Sound like African one
17. Mende
Also African
18. Micmac
I don’t know
19. Milanese
Maybe language of Milano?
20. Mojave
Must be Indian (Native American) language, There is dessert having such a name in USA.
1. Ladin
Is this from Guatemala or are their people their called Ladins? I thought I read about Ladin in a book by rigoberta menchu.
Lycian
Ancient Anatolian language – Now Extinct. I believe it was IE.
Ladin is a Romance language like Romansch spoken in northern Italy.
Ladinos are Indians in Guatemala who take off Indian clothes, quit speaking Indian and put on Spanish clothes and start speaking Spanish and automagically become mestizos.