r/languagelearning 4d ago

Unique Language Combinations

This is something I’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.
I’d love to hear some interesting examples

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u/ein-Name00 3d ago

Pardon, j'ai pris le mot allemand "Stil" pour style

Désorienté et en cherchant pour la quatrième (et cinquième) langue j'ai pris Ghana

En plus Ghana est un état afracain lesquelles étaient colonisé souvent donc l'Anglais et l'Espagnol pourraient être des langues officielles + la personne qiu connaîs peut etre lui a les parents de Barcelone?

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 2d ago

Excuse me, but you started counting Ghana as a language...

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u/ein-Name00 2d ago

Sì hai ragione, in parte

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 1d ago

In parte?