how many langauge do you speak?
By wulania
@wulania (1524)
Indonesia
December 21, 2011 10:53am CST
i amm indonesian and indonesia has hundred tribes, so we have hundreds local languages. but we have one national/official language, bahasa indonesia. bahasa indonesia is grammatically similar to malayan langauge, language which used by malasyian, brunei, some singaporean, and malay-thai and malay-philipino. but our vocabs are from many languages, like english, arabic, greek, latin, dutch, deutch, portuguese, french, and local languages. my mother tounge is javanese (javanese is the most dominant tribe in indonesia, half indonesian is javanese people) and i speak bahasa indonesia at public space and for official activities. i speak english litle bit, because englsh is taught as foeign language. how many language do you able to speal?
2 responses
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
21 Dec 11
I only speak one laugaue that is English only. My Husband can speak English and he knows a lot of German and a little bit of spanish.
@wulania (1524)
• Indonesia
22 Dec 11
wow, germany. i speak it a litle, because i studied it at midle school. wie geht es ihnen? guten moren. es ist morgen am indonesie. i like germany, but the grammar is very complicated as compared to english. but english is desecnt of germanic language. english is grammaticali germany, but most vocab are french, so english is a loan langauage
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
22 Dec 11
Actually most all Of English is based off of Latin not German although every similar on a lot of ways but I don't speak German just my husband he has a little bit of that crazy German in him that and our last name is German and his family is part of royalty in parts of Germany that are real small. Haas de.
@wulania (1524)
• Indonesia
22 Dec 11
but what i learnt at college, is:
european language is divided into 2 family, latin and germaic language. indo-germanic language comprises all langauges in north and west europe, but french, like modern germany, dutch, frisian, english, norway, polish, danis, switzerland language, scandinavian language, etc. for exmaple, saxon is sachsen in germany. anglo saxon is anglo sachsen
latin language comrpises of frencg, spanish, portoguese, italy, etc.
correct me if i am wrong
