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There's like two thousand of them that aren't just pidgin English, French, or Arabic dialects. Always the most insane shit ever. Whether it's tonal, has click consonants, obscene amounts of phonemes, and there's always like five more dialects of said language which are even worse! A good example would be Taa/ǃXóõ. Four tones, 58 consonants - of which up to 40 can be classified as clicking, 31 vowels, and the West variant is even more daunting. A minimum of 87 consonants and 43 individual distinct clicks. 2,500 speakers. There's African language families that are relegated to a couple hundred square kilometers in a random country, of which no other language is related to, for no fucking reason other than to cause even more conflict as nobody can understand each other. It's like Africa was struck with the Tower of Babel.

Of course, that's not ALL African languages, I'll remind you. There's some otherwise normal ones such as Amharic, a Semitic language which has a cool writing system too. When I say "What is with African languages?" I'm talking about Zulu, Xhosa, Taa, whatnot. Zulu has I think 16 noun classes, some of which are really specific and others are insanely vague.
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Entenphobie on scored.co
9 months ago 16 points (+1 / -0 / +15Score on mirror ) 1 child
Since they never invented a writing language, or invented anything for that matter, and stayed with their tribe there was never a need for any advanced or consistent language. Just random sounds for basic communication. Similar to how a dog barks to communicate.

Then came the colonists and taught them English, French, Dutch and a few other languages at which point they would no longer need their local languages, especially not the niggers who live in some form of society and work.
detransthrowaway on scored.co
9 months ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
That's a good statement.
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Uberen on scored.co
9 months ago 12 points (+0 / -0 / +12Score on mirror ) 3 children
Linguists are lying. You can't even write a dictionary because their language isn't stable. They just make up things all the time.
detransthrowaway on scored.co
9 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Yep. There's some languages that just have a lot in the air. Who knows, maybe that's just a thing that happens in all languages, but you don't notice because you subconsciously fill in blanks. Words can lose and gain definitions, and that's why linguistics is cool.
HimmlerWasRight88 on scored.co
9 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Exactly. I call bullshit on 31 vowels. How the fuck can you make 31 vowels sounds?

They are just barking like the animals they are and (((linguists))) claim that they have a complex language to push the idea that they are not inferior.
DragonsDontEatSoy on scored.co
9 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
So linguists are projecting their own conlang inventions onto africa
9 months ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
isolated languages change rapidly, feral niggers have self isolated for thousands of years. I'm surprised the situation isn't worse.
 
I suspect the clicking is a hold over from a non sapien blood line. People developed language from singing.
RoulerBleu on scored.co
9 months ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
>Laughs in Basque grammar.
USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
9 months ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
Who cares what niggers are saying
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derjudenjager on scored.co
9 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Lets see how an African scholar teaches proper pronunciation
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FN57 on scored.co
9 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
I remember reading once that despite differences across languages, the amount of information or "bitrate" if you will is pretty much equal across all languages.
gomera on scored.co
9 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Yeah, the 'bitrate' is constant, as long as you're talking about sophisticated meaning.

But, for instance, French and Spanish are the *fastest* languages in the world, while English and German (and Mandarin) are the slowest.

Like I'm fluent in Spanish, as a fourth language, but I can't watch a Spain-Spanish TV show -- it's just too fast. But a Colombian Telenovela -- no problem.
Formerlurker92 on scored.co
9 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Indivually they aren't actually that complicated, there are a lot of them for the same reason there are a lot of different species in Africa.

The biome does not have the consistency to allow one species or language to travel and "win" out over the others. So specialties develop in small pockets. And with no one, short of the Zulu, conquered enough to bring some hegemony to the language in his territory, but other places stayed in their pockets or only conquered a neighbor or two before the weight of extra population destroyed the pre agricultural tribe trying to form.
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