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[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

As a german, I feel the right side is much more alien to me than the left side (split at "Start here").

Is that circumstancial, or does it reflect some linguistic truth? Like, are the languages on the left one family, and the ones on the right another family, or however linguistic taxonomy would call that?

Maybe it's just that the left side includes all the germanic languages, so that feels more familiar. There are also languages on the left side where I have no clue what or where that might be. But much more so on the right side.

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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Swiss German doesn't have orthography and üü can absolutely appear.

Edit: They meant Schriftsprache/Schriftdeutsch, which is almost German but without the ß.

[-] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Where does the diagram mention grammar?

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Orthography. I thought it was a subset of grammar, but no.

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[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago
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[-] dunz@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago

The swedish one is incorrect. It's ä and ö not æ and ø.

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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

The only source I found for the "kiillt saam" is this page. Was it meant to be Kildin Sámi?

[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure what the c with a line on it is but Estonian (või siis Eesti keel) doesnt have it.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Where do you see a 'c with a line on it'? Starting from the 'latin' branch, you end up with Estonian saying no to everything except ä and õ.

[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

First thing left from "start here"

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a c with a hatschek or caron and Estonian is in the 'no' branch (red).

[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, it seems my eyes had a malfunction

[-] IAmNotACat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

In primarily Irish speaking places you might find TH missing from the orthography entirely.

Similarly, I wonder if ä could show up in English. Such as in diäeresis.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

No. For that to be the case you'd need to start pronouncing stuff correctly.

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[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I just use my innate knowledge of my fellow Europeans to identify the language well enough to point in the general direction which it came from, or maybe using cardinal directions like "south" or "east"

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