Back to Basics
um dois três quatro cinco
What is Portuguese?
L.L. Zamenhof's early attempt at a language for universal communication was designed to be easy for all to learn, though this goal was really only met for Europeans.
What is Esperanto?
to be + past participle
What is passive voice?
ʑ g ɦ q β
What is [q]? (Voiced)
Probably the only reason you have [ɱ] in your language.
What is Nasal Place Assimilation?
ane twa trey fower five
What is Scots?
This fictional language family, created by a famed philologist and author, has an appropriately complex evolutionary history.
What is Elvish?
While Missouri/Missouruh is the most well known, it's part of a set of indigenous American words with the same variation, including this word associated with red hawks and dolphins.
What is 'Miami'?
What is [h]? (Labials)
The only modern language to preserve the letter þ.
What is Icelandic?
moja mbili tatu nne tano
What is Swahili?
This conlang's script was based on cuneiform, as both look like they could be written by the nonhuman hands of its speakers.
What is Dovah or the Dragon Language?
In Old Norse, this word meant any kind of shirt, but became more specific after being borrowed into English.
What is 'skirt'?
What is [ʙ]? (Dorsal)
The four English linguistics courses regularly offered by Mizzou.
What are Structure of American English, R/S Dialects of American English, History of the English Language, and Intro to Old English?
en de twa kat senk
What is Haitian Creole?
Good luck speaking this 2004 language famous for condensing vast amounts of knowledge in small packages.
What is Ithkuil?
Of the six cases in Old English, nouns in the modern language preserve what two?
What are Nominative and Genitive? (boy, boy's)
l ɭ ɬ ʟ ʎ
What is [ɬ]? (Approximates)
'He likes me.' but 'Me sleeps.'
What is Ergative?
jeden dva tri štyru pät'
What is Slovak?
This Ottoman conlang is the oldest known, dating to the 14th century.
What is Balaibalan?
English's closest cousin not spoken on the island.
What is Frisian?
ħ h ʔ ʕ ɦ
What is [ʔ]? (Fricatives)
You can divide Indo European languages into these two groups depending on what happened to their *k.
What are Centum and Satem?