Languages are so cool...

[BlueCross]

I really like to study some of the more obscure ones.  You get to find stuff like this:

"The voiceless glottal fricative (/h/) is normally written as h, but appears as x after the consonants s, z, and digraphs ending in h to avoid phonological ambiguity. The voiced velar fricative is written as y before i and e (where it is palatalized /ʝ/), as w before o (where it is labialized /ɣʷ/), and as gh before a."

I mean really, when you hear "voiced velar fricative", don't you just get hot?

[KMD]

I'm studying Japanese. Its funny how many words are taken from latin based languages,  forced into japanese pronunciation, and how people use these constantly. They even have a set of characters that is used for all foreign based words. Sometimes, the meaning changes completely.

Do you know anything about Hungarian? Its really weird, no one knows the roots exactly, and the writing system looks like gibberish.

[BlueCross]

Do you know anything about Hungarian? Its really weird, no one knows the roots exactly, and the writing system looks like gibberish.

No, not really.  I had heard it is distantly related to Finnish (Finno-Ugric group).  I need to read more about Hungarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages