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> אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט > a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot > A language is a dialect with an army and navy I studie
by rpastuszak 2y ago
> אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט
> a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot
> A language is a dialect with an army and navy
I studied linguistics + Persian as my primary language, but also took Arabic and Kurdish (Sorani) and a bunch of smaller, extinct languages (e.g. Middle Persian, Parthian). I'm a native speaker of Polish so approaching Arabic from the perspective of having learned PL/FA first was quite fun:
We had one exercise where we were given two different pieces of text to translate - the same joke in Moroccan and Iraqi dialects. If you showed them to me without much context there's no way I'd assume they belong to the same language.
But this is an extreme example of course (and my Arabic was terrible then, now non-existent)
- pcthrowaway 2y agoDo you know some Yiddish also, or how did you come across that quote?
- rpastuszak 2y agoHehe, nope it's a quote from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a... (I speak Polish and German, and had a short period when I was learning Hebrew while doing some projects for the Jewish Museum in Krakow ((ages ago, in Macromedia Flash times)). That being said, I'm good at forgetting the languages I studied as soon as I stop using them, be it some weird dialect of Middle Persian or Haskell) EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPJIMQS7C5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPJIMQS7C5Q and https://karolinacicha.eu/en/sklep/9-languages-2013/ https://karolinacicha.eu/en/sklep/9-languages-2013/ (it's a fun album with songs in 9 languages spoken in that region, incl. yiddish, polish, Tatar, German, Romani...)