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offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2006-09-07 10:05 [#01966948]
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i understand more italian than i can speak, but i speak
fluent french (also went to a semi french private school
here in stockholm)


 

offline tridenti from Milano (Italy) on 2006-09-07 10:16 [#01966953]
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Ah cool.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-09-07 10:40 [#01966961]
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Yes and yes.

there's Irish, our national language, spoken only
by a few thousand unfortunately.. it has 3 main dialects in
Ireland, and it is part of the family of Gaelic languages
(there's also manx, scots gaelic, cornish, and umm a few
others..)

as for what most people speak here, it's certainly its own
dialect of english, known as hiberno-english. That's a really
fantastic wikipedia page i just linked to - the "grammar"
and "turns of phrase" sections are very interesting in my
opinion.

so i guess my own answer of "british english" was
incorrect..


 

offline Atli from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2006-09-07 11:06 [#01966971]
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icelandic (íslenska).

I've always wanted to learn Irish. It sounds interesting,
but I think it's sad what has happened to it's stature in
Ireland. Icelandic has some names and words of Irish origin
and vice versa.


 

offline ToXikFB on 2006-09-07 11:14 [#01966974]
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hiberno-english

giz a pack of tayto!


 

offline Atli from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2006-09-07 11:15 [#01966976]
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i meant to say state instead of stature...i think.


 

offline glasseater from Switzerland on 2006-09-07 12:02 [#01966993]
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wohha I wish my tongue was Icelandish... Coz it's so
difficult to learn and I want to very much !
Mine is french, de the frenze :P


 


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