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"happy birthday, pygmy!"

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zulu: halala ngosuku lokuzalwa  elibhekwa njengabaThwa ! esperanto: feliĉan naskiĝtagon,  nana !   dutch: gelukkige verjaardag,  dwerg ! norwegian: gratulerer med dagen  pygmé !  danish: tillykke med fødselsdagen,  pygmæ ! finnish: hyvää syntymäpäivää,  kääpiö ! czech: všechno nejlepší k narozeninám, trpaslík ! lol the primary definition of  trpaslík  is 'gnome' casteshano: feliz cumpleaños,  enano ! galician: feliz aniversario,  pigmeo ! catalán: feliç aniversari,  pigmea ! basque: zoriontsu urtebetetzea  pygmy ! maltese: għeluq sninha,  pigmew ! corsican: TANTI AUGURI,*  pygmy !  *the caps are not my doing, it's exactly what google translate spat out. so, yeah, WISHING YOU AN AUSPICIOUS SESSION WITH YOUR AUGUR, pygmy! albanian: gëzuar ditëlindjen,  xhuxh ! (looks like it would sound like someone sneezing?) macedonian: среќен роден...

We need to talk about Gàidhlig

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This is the way to pronounce "Gaelic"    [ˈkaːlikʲ]: This is the weather forecast in Scots Gaelic : And my face right now: Dafuq did i just watch!!?!???

Andromache: Pouring out Tears

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/16755/Muich_Rebecca.pdf?sequence=1

Conlangs

Wenedyk Wenedyk (in English: Venedic) is a naturalistic constructed language , created by the Dutch translator Jan van Steenbergen (who also co-created the international auxiliary language Slovianski ). It is used in the fictional Republic of the Two Crowns (based on the Republic of Two Nations ), in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad . Officially, Wenedyk is a descendant of Vulgar Latin with a strong Slavic admixture, based on the premise that the Roman Empire incorporated the ancestors of the Poles in their territory. Less officially, it tries to show what Polish would have looked like if it had been a Romance instead of a Slavic language. An alternative Polish term for the language could thus be either polskowłoski, incorporating the term włoski, originally meaning Vlach but now applied in Polish to Italian , or polskoromański, literally "Polish-Romance". On the Internet, it is well-recognized as an example of the altlang genre, much like  Brithenig and Bre...

Greco-Roman Cat

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Appealing to our feline and classical sensibilities all at once. ¿¡¡¡¿¿¡¡¿ Mais comment s'appelle-t-il ?!??!?!!?  Voici une liste d'options: Catullus Cato Socates Euripicat Aristopheline Publius Catvideos Naso Senecat Dis-moi, quel nom préfères-tu? fuck i hope i got that spelling and punctuation right.  french is un-fun when you've forgotten most of it. ---------------- Now, I give you Ancient Greek Culture Cat, that is,  ελληνικά τ  

EN THEO GEN

Is Angiepymytu's new favorite word. entheogen |enˈthēəˌjen, -jən| noun a chemical substance, typically of plant origin, that is ingested to produce a nonordinary state of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes. DERIVATIVES entheogenic |enˌthēəˈjenik| adjective ORIGIN 1970s: from Greek, literally ‘becoming divine within’ ; coined by an informal committee studying the inebriants of shamans.

alteuropäisch

Old European  ( alteuropäisch ) is the term used by Hans Krahe (1964) for the language of the oldest reconstructed stratum of European hydronymy (river names) in Central and Western Europe. The character of these river names is pre-Germanic and pre-Celtic and dated by Krahe to the 2nd millennium BC. German linguist Theo Vennemann has suggested that the language of the old European hydronyms was agglutinative and preindoeuropean, however this stands in contrast to the more generally accepted view that the hydronyms are of Indo-European origin and Theo Vennemann's theory has been criticised as being seriously flawed.

La Lengua Me Hace Gritar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language Just...yeah.