All the languages you are learning, you have to abandon for let's say 5 years. You have to replace them with languages that have less than 2 million speakers. What language(s) do you pick?
So for example, I'm learning right now Catalan and Basque. I would have to abandon Catalan and keep going with Basque, because it is under the 2 million marker. Unfortunately I couldn't choose Galician, which has half a million more than allowed, so I would pick Scottish Gaelic. Scotland and Spain are quite close by plane, so it would still be plausible to get some immersion in both countries if I lived in one of them.
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Esperanto, Ido & Interlingua
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What languages are there to choose from?
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I'd keep the Esperanto I'm already studying, despite what some say about the number of speakers.
I'd have to stop with Russian, but to keep to the Slavic family, I'd add Sorbian. If this exercise is a one-for-one switch with the languages I am actively working on now, then that's it: Esperanto and Sorbian.
But if we can add some...I already have many LCTLs on my dream list, and have studied a few through the years. So this task wouldn't be hard for me, except that I get paid extra money for my Russian proficiency, so I'd sooner or later lose some $$. But I could finally put some serious effort to revive my A2-ish Cornish, pick up Old English and Middle Egyptian for reading, learn some Nahuatl (ethnologue says fewer than 2 mil speakers at 1.7 mil), pull the Mari textbooks back out, finally work on Lakota or Mohawk or...wait, is this the wanderlust thread?
I'd have to stop with Russian, but to keep to the Slavic family, I'd add Sorbian. If this exercise is a one-for-one switch with the languages I am actively working on now, then that's it: Esperanto and Sorbian.
But if we can add some...I already have many LCTLs on my dream list, and have studied a few through the years. So this task wouldn't be hard for me, except that I get paid extra money for my Russian proficiency, so I'd sooner or later lose some $$. But I could finally put some serious effort to revive my A2-ish Cornish, pick up Old English and Middle Egyptian for reading, learn some Nahuatl (ethnologue says fewer than 2 mil speakers at 1.7 mil), pull the Mari textbooks back out, finally work on Lakota or Mohawk or...wait, is this the wanderlust thread?
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Re: Replace all the languages you are learning with ones that have less than 2 million speakers
I am studying French and while I’m not currently learning Dutch, German nor Spanish, I have in the past and intend to do so again in future, along with perhaps Norwegian. So I’ll cheat and provide alternatives for all these languages.
Dutch —> Frisian
French —> Breton
German —> Luxembourgish
Spanish —> Basque
Norwegian —> Occitan (if the nbr of speakers is not too high, otherwise Francoprovençal)
Dutch —> Frisian
French —> Breton
German —> Luxembourgish
Spanish —> Basque
Norwegian —> Occitan (if the nbr of speakers is not too high, otherwise Francoprovençal)
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I'm already learning Basque and Irish, so I'm only changing my other 4 favourite languages.
Instead of English, Catalan, French and Spanish, I think I'd learn Gascon (an Occitan), Mauritian Creole, Walloon and maybe Luxembourgish or Welsh. Maybe.
2 million speakers is already a very small number, there is a whole bunch of languages around that might be considered small but still have over 2 million speakers. Why did you pick that number over another?
Instead of English, Catalan, French and Spanish, I think I'd learn Gascon (an Occitan), Mauritian Creole, Walloon and maybe Luxembourgish or Welsh. Maybe.
2 million speakers is already a very small number, there is a whole bunch of languages around that might be considered small but still have over 2 million speakers. Why did you pick that number over another?
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smallwhite wrote:What languages are there to choose from?
I've looked and that information is surprisingly hard to come by. You get broad data, such as Ethnologue telling you that there are 307 languages with more than 1 million speakers, or that 956 languages have more than 100,000 speakers, but those are generalities.
Ethnologue more usefully gives a comparison of language families here.
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Can we pick dead languages?
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