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Thread #Georgian 👏 xitter.cf/_rgagnon/status/100601…
Rachel Gagnon@_rgagnon11 Jun 2018
A fun thread of what happens when learning a new language:
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Have some Adyghe (West Circassian) language, folks.
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Caucasian words retweeted
Neil Hauer
@NeilPHauer2 May 2018
Replying to @Mortis_Banned @Jardine_bradley @POLITICOEurope
Even that cannot compete with the most powerful of all Cyrillic letters, from Kabardin:
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Maximilian Hess@zakavkaza28 Apr 2018
The Georgian word for friend, megobari (მეგობარი), is derived from the word for one of these food bowls, gobi (გობი). Basically those with whom you share a food bowl. I love that. – at Georgia
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🙈 #Georgian #ქკპვ
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Check out this video of Winnie-the-Pooh in multiple languages, including #Avar, #Ossetian, #Dargwa, #Kumyk, #Lak, and #Lezgi! youtube.com/watch?v=xaS7LSAF…
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A native #Avar speaker pronounces Микьазаралда микьнусиялда ункъоялда микьго къверкъ кьода гъоркь къвакъвадана [ˈmit͡ɬʼazaralda ˈmit͡ɬʼnusijalda ˈunqʼɔjalda ˈmit͡ɬʼɡɔ qʼwɛrqʼ ˈt͡ɬʼɔda ʁɔrt͡ɬʼ ˈqʼwaqʼwadana] ‘8888 frogs croaked under a bridge’ via @etokavkaz
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Alma [ˈalma] means ‘don’t buy’ in #Azerbaijani 💸🚫 #marketingfail
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Caucasian words retweeted
Neil Hauer
@NeilPHauer14 Jan 2018
Now this is a meme I can get on board with @JabalAlAlsun
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I think this is the first job posting I've seen that gives advantage to #Mengrelian speakers: jobs.ge/eng/161961/
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Caucasian words retweeted
Fatima Tlis
@fatimatlis4 Dec 2017
Life in Russian is also a “She” while in English & Circassian it’s an “It”. Life in Circassian is called Gascha it means “doing years” In English &Russian one is “born/rodilsya.” In Circassian one happens “qakhua” - for “the day I was born” you say “the day I happened” xitter.cf/fatimatlis/status/9372…
Fatima Tlis
@fatimatlis3 Dec 2017
In English Death is a “He,” right? In Russian it’s a “She” - Smert’. In Circassian Death does not have any gender (no he or she) It’s called Pseheh [Psew-heh] - literally translates “The Soul Extractor.” In English & Russian Death “comes” In Circassian Death “visits”
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The #Abkhaz word for train адәыӷба / aduyghba [aˈd͡bəʁba] comes from the words адәы / aduy [aˈd͡bə] ‘field’ and аӷба / aghba [ˈaʁba] ‘ship’ 🌱🚢
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#GEORGIAN: I’m so complicated, I have seven noun cases! 😊 #TABASARAN: Hold my drink.
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An important concept uniting the #Caucasus: a man who naturally can’t grow a good beard 🇦🇲 քոսակ / kosak [kʰɔˈsɑk] 🇦🇿 kosa [coˈsɑ] 🇬🇪 ქოსა / kosa [ˈkʰɔsa]
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Happy #PotatoDay! Caucasian words for potato are boring (variations on 🇷🇺 kartofel)… Except this #Lak badass: нувщи / nuwshshi [ˈnuwʃːi] 🥔
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Omg this is the best twitter account @JabalAlAlsun please keep tweeting
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Giraffe is ընձուղտ / yndzught [ənˈd͡zuχt] in #Armenian 🦒
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Alternatively, you can go for цӏака / tsaka [t͡sʼakʰ] in #Chechen or მაზეგ / mazeg [ˈmazɛɡ] in #Georgian.
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