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The world's obscure languages are super cool, exotic and some are just plain strange. Check out this post to learn about 10 obscure languages from around the globe. You've probably never heard them spoken, sung, whistled or clicked in real life.
Read on for more examples of some of the truly strangest languages used on planet Earth. The Chalcatongo Mixtec language, spoken by 6,000 people in Oaxaca, Mexico, is statistically the weirdest language in the world, according to Stanford-trained linguist Tyler Schnoebelen. What does that mean?
Certain languages are hard to learn, but only if you’re a native speaker of X language. And some languages may certainly seem strange and quirky, but that’s mostly just relative to the language you speak. The “weirdest language” is only weird to a certain subset of the world.
Here are the world’s ten strangest languages that you might not have heard of yet! Let’s start with something simple—Basque. It’s an isolated official language used in the Basque Country (part of Spain and France, located on the coast of the Bay of Biscay). In this sense, “isolated” means that the language doesn’t belong to any language family.
Only 6,000 people in the world speak Chalcatongo Mixtec – considered to be the ‘world’s weirdest language’. Pexels. English has more phonemes than many languages, with around 44, depending on...
If you rank the world’s languages by the structural features they share with other languages, the one most different from the majority of all other languages is Chalcatongo Mixtec, spoken by...
English came in 33rd position out of 239 languages, proving “weirder” than over 80% of the other languages in the survey. Among the list of features that differentiate English from other languages is the reordering of sentence structure when asking a question and its 11 vowel sounds.