Languages Aren't Hard!

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Re: Languages Aren't Hard!

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Yep, that one would work best probably, if you remain agnostic about the pragmatic background [:)]
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Re: Languages Aren't Hard!

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:chn: Mandarin

语言不艰难!
Yǔyán bù jiānnán!

[ju˨˩jan˧˥ pu˥˩ ͡tɕɪ̯ɛn˥nan˧˥]
language NEG hard
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:tan: Swahili:

Lugha si ngumu.
lugha si n-gumu
language(s)(CL9/10) NEG.COP.PRES CL9/10-hard
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Re: Languages Aren't Hard!

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:con: griuskant (without the conscript)

jeth shur az gaevki.
/'dʒəθ ʃur az 'gevki/
language NEG is difficult-A
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Re: Languages Aren't Hard!

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:che: Swiss German:

Sprocha sin nit schwer!
['ʃpɾɔːχɐ sɪn nɪt ʃʋɛːɾ]
Languages are not hard.

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sproch-a    sin        nit schwer
language-PL COP.IND.PL NEG difficult*
*the word literally means “heavy”

:che: Vallader:

Linguas nu sun greiv.
Languages are not hard.

The gloss, as it turns out, is identical to the one above. Including the semantics. Romansh still fails to convince me that it’s not a shitty romlang.
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
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:con: Ganur Lon

Gan me dwup godau!
/gan me dwup ˈgodaʊ/
gan me dw-up god-au
language TOP 3PL.TOP.NEG.SBJ-be difficult-ADJ

EDIT: Accidentally put the positive form, changed to the negative.
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Adarain wrote: The gloss, as it turns out, is identical to the one above. Including the semantics. Romansh still fails to convince me that it’s not a shitty romlang.
Well no, the negation precedes the copula in Romansch, while it succeeds it in Swiss German.

:con: Ular

语语无辛!
Jōjō pãm tàj!

[jōˈjō pɑ̃̄m tæ̀j]
language-PL COP.NEG hard
Languages aren't hard!
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:con: Lairäts

Aitsenyäs u atat!
[ɑɪˈtseɲɛs ʌ ˈɑtɑt]
0 aitseny-äs u 0-ata-t
DEF language-COL NEG 3SG.INTR-be.difficult-GNO
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Pod
Ynbó by såvroóńis byåim
IMP-NEG Multiple language difficult
Languages aren’t hard.
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:con: Cissian

Ёзики́ не сэ тё́жкi.
Jozik-í nje se tjóžk-ji.
/jo.ziˈki nʲe se ˈtʲo.ʃʲkʲi/
language-PL.NOM NEG be.3PL.PRS difficult-M.PL.NOM

Languages aren't difficult!

Or the colloquial variant:

Ёзики́ не сэ тё́жка.
Jozik-í nje se tjóžk-a.
/jo.ziˈki nʲe se ˈtʲo.ʃka/
language-PL.NOM NEG be.3PL.PRS difficult-(M.)PL.NOM

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