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It's some kind of Elvish.I can't read it.
Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.
I want to touch you.'
'And if you did touch me, what then?'
'I would find a language of beginning.
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
Tribally speaking...
You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten
Be my linguist
Turn me
into your words.
I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.
...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.
Love is the universal language.
I have a good ear for languages.
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.
Miwanzo is the word in Swahili for "beginnings." But sometimes everything has to end first and the bottom drop out and every light fizzle and die before a proper beginning can come along.
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.
How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?
I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
And the greatest pity that the obscure lgala language is a borrowed and stolen mixture of the WaZoBia.
I know what the structure of the language is.
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
To say "I love you," Yanomami Indians of the Amazon say, "Ya pihi irakema," meaning "I have been contaminated by your being" - a part of you has entered me, and it lives and grows.
Hands have their own language.
Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't.
An Indian child is brought up in England, and he will speak both English and Hindi very well. English in school and Hindi at home. But here it's English both in schools and at home. Why can't you speak Swahili with your child at home? If this continues we will turn into an English speaking country.
I never thought I'd be with an African, someone so different, from this tiny village."
Sophie
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South
Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there's only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
Samassi Abou don't speak the English too good.
I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.
My language is the sum total of myself.
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Karibu, dada wangu. Hapa, wewe ni nyumbani.
Welcome, my sister. Here, you are home.
Home.
And to this home, may you always return.
Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.
apapi mou, zoi mou" means my love, my life.
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
She is written in a foreign tongue.
I had to know at least two languages.
My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
The river's vowels and the trees' consonants speak a not-quite-foreign language.
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.
The language of love is the only language understood but not spoken the world over.
This is not just primitive rural superstition; [juju] is practiced by all kinds of people, from illiterate herd boys to multi-dregreed university professors. If you don't understand the power of this belief, you will never truly grasp the rich albeit often incomprehensible spirituality of Africa.
Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.
Afrikander cattle.
I just love dialects; they're really fun.
A language Older Than Words
My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to.
Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love.
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
Ua maomao ka lani, ua kahaea luna, Ua pipi ka maka o ka hoku. (The heavens were fair, they stretched above, Many were the eyes of the stars.)
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.
In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton's songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!
English. That was where I met him.
I speak some dwarvish.
she likes the sound of languages other than English.
If you love language, it will love you back.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
depends on all of the people who use the language.
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
The most tenacious universal language in the world is love.
The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. - unknown
I've been doing African dance all my life.
It starts with an "I"
And ends with a "U"
I got a feelin'
Are you feelin' it too
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
Plutarch gave her nine languages, including Hebrew and Troglodyte, an Ethiopian tongue that - if Herodotus can be believed - was unlike that of any other people; it sounds like the screeching of bats.
Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks.
I shake my head.
"It's py'a." We're so close, his whisper is right in my ear, and his breath warms the side of my neck. "You are my heart, Pia.
In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They'll believe all kinds of shit about Africa.
Nothing creates a bond between people in Africa more quickly than shaed laughter.
Who wants to make the language of dreams?
There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences, incomprehensible to all outsiders. Inside, it wasn't difficult to translate at all.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
The only true language in the world is a kiss.
You drink a language, you speak a language, and one day it owns you;
I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.
In New Guinea, as in other hot spots of endangerment, indigenous languages are a user's guide to ecosystems that are increasingly fragile and - in the face of climate change - increasingly irreplaceable.
If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.
Africa?" "Africa?
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
The Yoruba say 'o d'oju ala' when someone dies. I will see you in dreams.
Kope!" the other guy yeled. "What the frick?! You got some cheetah blood in you or what?""Seriously!" insisted Blake. "How did you run so fast?"
"I am African." Without taking his eyes from mine, Kopano eased himself off me, and I sat up.
How do you spell it?" I asked. It sounded like Ky-den. Jay spelled it for me. "It's A-I, like Thai food," he explained.
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages
a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.
Crosbie teach you a bit of English, Ted?" "I taught him," said Tauwhare. "I taught him korero Maori! You say Thomas - I say Tamati. You say Crosbie - I say korero mai!
Blah, blah, blah. Demon boy, I can't speak that language. Furthermore, I don't want to pollute my brain by learning it. So it's time for you to learn mine. First lesson-I'm Say-been. I'm oft described as byoo-tee-full and mah-jest'ick.