In Scandinavian country banter, Denmark usually gets the short end of the stick by having the language everyone would make fun of. Several comedy videos have shown how garbled the Danish language sounds to Norwegian and Swedish speakers, and to much more hilarious effect, even fellow Danish speakers. If one thinks this cannot appear any … Continue reading What makes the Danish language so… incomprehensible?
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Why does the Hawaiian language have so few sounds?
The Hawaiian alphabet is short. In comparison with the English set of 26 letters, Hawaiian has only 13. 5 vowels, 7 consonants, and the 'okina, written as '. There is the macron used to mark long vowels in the Hawaiian language, but these vowels carrying macrons are not considered separate letters. With such a short … Continue reading Why does the Hawaiian language have so few sounds?
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