#estonian langblr

[languageroom]

There is a new, free Estonian language resource, but it's a real one - a thousand page grammar that you can download from Tartu Ülikool. In Estonian. While it's not aimed at language learners, it is thorough and allegedly completely modern.

„Eesti grammatika“ on koguteos, mis kirjeldab enam kui tuhandel leheküljel eesti keele ehitust alates häälikutest kuni lausete ja dialoogideni. Raamatu viis osa annavad ülevaate eesti keele foneetikast ja fonoloogiast, sõnamuutmisest ja sõnamoodustusest, kirjalikust süntaksist ning esmakordselt ka suulise keele süntaksist ja dialoogi põhiehitusest. Sissejuhatus tutvustab keele tasandeid ja keelekirjelduse põhimõisteid. Grammatika koondab ennekõike selle sajandi eesti keele uurimise tulemusi, pakkudes kasutajale ühtede kaante vahel olulist teavet nüüdiseesti ühiskeele kõigi peamiste aspektide kohta. Käsitlus toetub tänapäevase keelekasutuse andmetele ning toob esile ka keelekasutuse varieerumise ja muutumise tendentsid. Raamatu lõpus on põhjalik eesti keele alaste uurimuste valikbibliograafia. „Eesti grammatika“ on vajalik infoallikas kõigile, kelle töö, õpingud või huvid seostuvad eesti keelega.

[lumeke]

just learned the estonian word for welsh is kõmri, taken from cymraeg, the welsh word for their own language

it is very sweet brought tears to my eyes!

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages with the most sounds

Languages have different phonetic inventories. Some languages use more sounds than others. Two sounds are different if they are perceived to constitute two distinct phonemes by native speakers. 

Here is a ranking of the most common languages by the number of sounds (phonemes) they use. Diphthongs are not considered because they are merely a combination of vowels that already exist in a language.

Lithuanian: 12 vowels and 47 consonants = 59 sounds

Danish: 32 vowels and 20 consonants = 52 sounds

Hindustani: 11 vowels and 37 consonants = 48 sounds

Welsh: 14 vowels and 31 consonants = 45 sounds

German: 20 vowels and 25 consonants = 45 sounds

Belarusian: 6 vowels and 39 consonants = 45 sounds

Norwegian: 19 vowels and 25 consonants = 44 sounds

Irish: 11 vowels and 33 consonants = 44 sounds

Bulgarian: 8 vowels and 36 consonants = 44 sounds

Hungarian: 14 vowels and 27 consonants = 41 sounds

Ukrainian: 6 vowels and 34 consonants = 40 sounds

Russian: 6 vowels and 34 consonants = 40 sounds

Slovak: 10 vowels and 29 consonants = 39 sounds

Latvian: 12 vowels and 27 consonants = 39 sounds

French: 17 vowels and 22 consonants = 39 sounds

Estonian: 9 vowels and 30 consonants = 39 sounds

Dutch: 16 vowels and 23 consonants = 39 sounds

Icelandic: 16 vowels and 22 consonants = 38 sounds

Portuguese: 14 vowels and 23 consonants = 37 sounds

Polish: 6 vowels and 31 consonants = 37 sounds

Czech: 10 vowels and 27 consonants = 37 sounds

Albanian: 7 vowels and 30 consonants = 37 sounds

English: 12 vowels and 24 consonants = 36 sounds

Catalan: 8 vowels and 28 consonants = 36 sounds

Swedish: 17 vowels and 18 consonants = 35 sounds

Mandarin: 9 vowels and 26 consonants = 35 sounds

Finnish: 16 vowels and 18 consonants = 34 sounds

Arabic: 6 vowels and 28 consonants = 34 sounds

Hausa: 10 vowels and 24 consonants = 34 sounds

Esperanto: 5 vowels and 27 consonants = 32 sounds

Persian: 6 vowels and 26 consonants = 32 sounds

Turkish: 8 vowels and 23 consonants = 31 sounds

Serbo-Croatian: 5 vowels and 25 consonants = 30 sounds

Italian: 7 vowels and 23 consonants = 30 sounds

Basque: 6 vowels and consonants = 30 sounds

Romanian: 7 vowels and 22 consonants = 29 sounds

Galician: 7 vowels and 19 consonants = 26 sounds

Spanish: 5 vowels and 20 consonants = 25 sounds

Greek: 5 vowels and 18 consonants = 23 sounds

Japanese: 5 vowels and 17 consonants = 22 sounds

This is by no means a complete list and is also very Eurocentric, but the source only had information for these languages.

[charlesherbertlightoller]

The X-Files' title in other languages is so fucking funny to me for some reason. Like I decided to look it up out of curiosity bc I've been rewatching it and some of them are just incredible. Here's a list so you can get a get a load yourself:

🇫🇷 X-Files : Aux frontières du réel (X-Files: On the Borders of Reality)

🇩🇪 Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI (X-Files – The FBI's Uncanny Cases)

🇷🇺 Секретные материалы (Secret Materials)

🇪🇪 Salatoimikud (Secret Files)

🇷🇸 Досије икс/Dosije iks (Dossier X)

🇺🇦 Цілком таємно (Completely Secret)

🇱🇻 X-faili. Slepenās lietas (The X-Files. Secret things)

There are probably more but these are the ones that stand out the most to me

[keyboard-crat]

Something I love when speaking with people with different first languages in english is whenever someone doesn’t know or can’t say a word or an expression in english and just does a rough translation from their own language and it turns out your languages use the same original ideas. This guy in Czechia just complemented my wallet and called it a money bag and I was about to correct him but actually, he’s right, it’s also money bag in estonian and if we understand each other then why do we need to bow down to english

[chiara-klara-claire]

2021 journal with weekdays in Irish (June), German (September) and Estonian (August). Danish, Finnish and Hungarian were used for other months.

[langguessr]

Nine new languages added to LangGuessr:

Afrikaans

Breton

Cornish

Estonian

Hausa

Korean

Nynorsk (under "Norwegian")

Swiss German

Yoruba

[dulac1882]

!! langblr introduction !!

salut !! i made this langblr to share my language learning progress and to be in contact with other people into languages<3 i'm especially interested in following people who post about their learning progress !!!

about me: - caroline (she/her), 21, finnish, uni student - other than languages i'm interested in almost everything art & culture related :) languages: - languages i'm concentrating on: french (high b1), german (b1), russian (high a2) - languages i'm learning on the side / have learned in the past: swedish (rusty b1), latin, italian (a1) (+ english). not planning on starting any new ones anytime soon..

language goals under the cut :)

some goals for this summer: - french: (1) finish b1 level textbooks and maybe go through grammaire progressive au français intermédiaire and/or avancé (2) get better at understanding natural speech (i can understand radio programmes etc just fine but movies, tv shows and youtube videos are a lot more difficult for me) - german: improve vocabulary, maybe go through a textbook (if i have the time) - russian: catch up on anki (i have over 5k reviews piled up….) and MAYBE finish my (final!) russian textbook - other: maybe try reading a book in swedish and listen to some easy italian podcast episodes, these aren't really that important long-time goals: - french: becoming as good as i am in english (or better..) - german: high b2 or c1 (currently my biggest problems are (1) vocabulary (2) can't speak…..) - russian: being able to read russian lit (+ having basic conservations without too much difficulty) - swedish: reaching a level that's ok/nice for a finnish person…??? as in being able to have a conversation if needed + being able to read contemporary texts (which i mostly am already) - italian: no big goals, i can already understand a lot based on french :) one day i'd like to be able to read italian books with ease and to speak semi-fluently but i'm in no hurry - latin: not forgetting anything i've already learned + finishing OLC 3 at some point (i only have 2–5 chapters to go)

[seherstudies]

Hi there and welcome to my blog! Will you accompany me on my (language) journey?

You can call me Seher and this is my sideblog for all things language related. My main blog is seherling but I rarely use it, maybe one day if I will dust it off if I ever start making art again, though I follow and reply to comments with it

I enjoy discovering new music, video games and reading manga and sometimes books! Some of my favourites are Mushishi (if you can't tell), Mononoke and Gangsta

Languages I know: German (N), English (B2/C1 idk), Japanese* (N4?) Languages of interest: Czech (dabbling), Dutch, Icelandic

*main focus

[oodlenoodleroodle]

There was a weird bullshit AI article about tumblr that claimed that you can post in 18 different languages on tumblr, and I started to think: which languages have I seen posts in on tumblr? So for me its at least:

English

Finnish

Estonian

Karelian

Swedish

Norwegian

German

French

Spanish

Portuguese

Mandarin Chinese

Japanese

Korean

Turkish

Russian

I might be forgetting ones I have seen, and there probably are languages I've seen and didn't even recognise what the language was. Like I genuinly don't remember if I've ever seen a post in arabic? Surely though - it's an enormous language?

[kkulbeolyeonghwa]

Words I learnt today:

[estonian]

nüüd - now haigus - illness välja - out mõte - thought otse - straight sõna - word aasta - year järgmine - next tõttu - due to rääkima - to speak ütlema - to say võtma - to take kahetsema - to regret

[uchinaaguchi]

ふぁな fana （花）- flower ちぶみ chibumi（蕾）- bud にー nii (根) - root ゐだ yida (枝) - branch さに sani - seed たき taki (竹) - bamboo をぅじ wuuji - sugar cane ぬーり nuuri (苔) - moss きいくさ kiikusa (木草) - vegetation

[estonian-is-horrible]

Tänane WOTD

Kaugenema - Tegusõna/Verb kaugenema, kaugeneda; kaugenen, kaugenesin; kaugenenud, kaugenetud

Tähendused / Meanings

🔵 kaugemale, eemale liikuma või minema; üha kaugemale jääma

kaugemaks, võõramaks jääma või muutuma

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⚪ to move farther away from something; to stay farther and farther away from something

to become more distant, alien, foreign

Näited / Examples:

● Laev liikus kiiresti ja kallas kaugenes. The ship was moving fast and the coast was receding. ● Hääled kaugenesid, kuni vaibusid sootuks. The voices became more distant until they fell silent altogether. ● Reedel madalrõhkkond kaugeneb ja sadu lakkab. On Friday, the low pressure will move away and the rain will stop. ● Inimene kaugeneb loodusest üha kiiremini. Humans are distancing themselves from nature faster and faster. ● Nukker, kui poliitikud rahvast kaugenevad. It's a shame when politicians distance themselves from the people.

Sõnaveeb:

https://sonaveeb.ee/search/unif/dlall/dsall/kaugenema/1

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These come from the Learning Estonian Discord server, thanks to Leemur, who painstakingly makes these. Used with kind permission.

[plantsucc]

note to self to translate "intergenerational trauma" as "üle põlvkondade ulatuv trauma" mitte "põlvkondadevaheline trauma" sest "vaheline" loeb nagu see viitaks rohkem peresisestele konfliktidele

[languagemoon]

New langblr/studyblr introduction(re-intro)

Hi everyone, my name is Brooke and I used to be real active in the langblr community a few years back! Life got rough and my love for languages, really for anything, took a backseat for quite a while. I realized recently just how much I love languages and the language learning community and how much peace and belonging this community gave me. I don't know how many of you remember me or how many are still around but I'd love to get reconnected! My current target languages are French and German, but I have deep interest in writing systems and am learning the Mandarin, Arabic, Hebrew, and other scripts on the side. I had a special interest in uralic languages such as Finnish and Estonian, and would love to reignite my passion for these as well. I also have someone very important to me in my life who speaks Visayan, so Visayan has become an interest to me as well. I love to learn all types of things, especially biology, geography, and languages. I also have a huge interest in films and am on a quest to watch many different kinds of movies from all over the world. I love studyblr and langblr the vibes are just as immaculate as I remember, and I want to extend my gratitude to everyone creating amazing comforting motivating content!

[lingwistyka-balto-slawistyka]

~◇~ Welcome to my langblr ~◇~

◇ Hi, my name is Alexandra, and linguistics is my passion! Below you will find the detailed information about my language study plan as well as the contents that will be posted on this blog.

• Short version: my native language is Romanian. My current focus is getting fluent in Polish (currently at around B1-B2), improving my French (also around B2) and finding a Romanian Sign Language course. In terms of linguistics, my main interests are historical and comparative linguistics, etymology, language typology, language acquisition, language evolution, innovation and word formation.

◇ Why "Lingwistyka Bałto-Sławistyka"?

• This sideblog started when I was writing a paper about the common origins of Slavic and Baltic Languages. The name is in Polish because it's the main language I'm learning. As for the Baltic part, I still really want to learn Lithuanian one day.

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◇ Romanian (native language)

~~~ ◇ ~~~ About me ~~~ ◇ ~~~

~ ◇ ~ Language learning ~ ◇ ~

Languages I can speak:

◇ English (C2)

◇ Polish (B1-B2) <- priority

◇ French (B1-B2) <- priority

◇ Russian (B1)

Languages I want to study in the near future:

◇ Romanian Sign Language <- priority

◇ Lithuanian

◇ Old English

Languages I want to study eventually:

◇ Aromanian

◇ A Nordic language

◇ A South Slavic language

◇ American Sign Language

◇ Japanese

◇ Estonian

◇ A constructed language

Languages that I would potentially need to learn in the future:

◇ German

◇ Hungarian

◇ Ukrainian

~ ◇ ~ Linguistics ~ ◇ ~

Branches of linguistics I'm most interested in:

◇ Historical and comparative linguistics. Indo-European studies

◇ Etymology. Lexicology

◇ Typology

◇ Language acquisition

◇ Linguistic evolution. Creolization. Grammaticalization

~ ◇ ~ How I got into linguistics ~ ◇ ~

My first contact with foreign languages was my dad teaching me to say "I love you" in as many languages as he knew how to, since I was a toddler. During early childhood, the main foreign language I was exposed to was English, mostly via Disney movies, other cartoons, and, later on, the Internet. During middle school, I took up French, being a mandatory subject, and studied it in school for 8 years. At some point in 6th grade I tried teaching myself Japanese using one textbook and anime, and it didn't even get me to an A1 level. However, if I had the chance, I would take it up again in the future.

More importantly, in 6th grade, my teacher enrolled me in the linguistics olympiad, which I fell in love with at first sight. I had never seen such a thing before, and I was completely awestruck. I remember that it was a problem in which we had to decipher Luwian hieroglyphs. I loved it so much that I continued to attend this olympiad yearly for the rest of my pre-university schooling. Another relevant detail is that I learned the etymology of my name at around the age of 15, and binge read dozens if not hundreds of behindthename entries. This solidified a lifelong interest in etymology and historical linguistics.

Specifically because of my interest in linguistics, I pursued a philology (literature + linguistics) degree in college, being an English major and a Russian minor. I had taken up Russian from scratch, and reached approximately a B1 level. However, I also took an elective Polish course, only once a week for 3 years, and got a higher language level than Russian, which was my minor. It helps that I went to Poland twice in the meantime.

I am currently enrolling in a linguistics masters program, hoping to deepen my knowledge of the subject and learn how to do real research of my own. My short term language learning goals, aside from perfecting my Polish and French, would be to start studying Romanian Sign Language.