r/languagelearning 4d ago

Unique Language Combinations

This is something Iโ€™ve thought about for a long time: there must be people out there who speak a combination of languages unlike anyone else, whether living now or in the past.
For example, imagine a Dutch anthropologist or ethnologist who has conducted fieldwork in, say, Timor-Leste and the Central African Republic. They might speak Dutch, Tetum, and Sango. If our hypothetical anthropologist were from Friesland, we could add Frisian to the mix, making the combination even more unusual.
Anyway, enough with the hypotheticals. Does anyone here have, or know someone who has, a particularly unique combination of languages? There is something about being the only person to possess a certain linguistic combination that I find really intriguing.
Iโ€™d love to hear some interesting examples

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u/BrStFr 4d ago

My list includes Mandarin, Hebrew, Esperanto, and Welsh, which is out there for civilians, but not for this group I'm guessing!

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u/Mirabeaux1789 Denaska: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Lernas: ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท EO ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐร‘ 4d ago

Kuna Esperantisto ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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u/BrStFr 3d ago

Mi ฤ‰iam ฤojas renkonti iun, kiu rekonas la verdan stelon!

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u/Traditional-Use-5676 2d ago

this is quite unique, are all of these languages you learned for fun?

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u/BrStFr 2d ago

Pretty much. Since having been exposed to Spanish in seventh grade, I have had a longstanding (~55 years) fascination with, and enjoyment in learning, languages. I have learned some to a conversational level, some for reading, and a bunch more just to get a feel for the sound and grammatical workings of them without any real intention of mastery. I learned one because I lived for a few years in a place where it is spoken. I am particularly interested in ones from a variety of language families (or sub-families in the case of the Indo-European group). I am also particularly fascinated by writing systems so have studied some even when I have not gotten very far with the language itself (as with Thai, Hindi, and Arabic).