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The most difficult language is....

Name: Anonymous 2006-12-30 5:46

according to the British Foreign Office is Hungarian which has 35 cases (forms of a nouns according to whether it is subject, object, genitive, etc). Therefore knowing Hungarian means you have skill. Discuss.

Name: Anonymous 2007-01-07 3:11

35 cases? OMG... try learning this South American language, Piraha

Among other things, Piraha has 9 consonants and 4 vowels (women only use 8 consonants).

The Pirahã culture has the simplest known kinship system of any human culture. A single word, baíxi (pronounced [màíʔì]), is used for both mother and father, and they don't keep track of relationships any more distant than biological siblings.

Pirahã is unusual among the world's languages today in having no numerals, although this appears to have been more common before the spread of modern trade and technology. There are apparently only three words that roughly describe quantity, somewhat akin to "a few", "some", and "many." There is no grammatical distinction between singular and plural, even in pronouns. There is little distinction between individuated quantities and mass quantities, although this to distinguish between one big fish and several small fish.

There are no words for colors, only dark and light.

There are 135 cases, the majority locative, for nouns, as well as three persons, fourteen tenses, one voice, and over seventy (mostly tonal) moods.

Two consonants not found in any other human language.

This part frightens me the most. Pirahã can be whistled, hummed, or encoded in music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language

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