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by junon 1544 days ago
This language looks cool as hell. Is it difficult to learn?
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sterlind 1544 days ago
extremely so, iirc. both because of the complex agglutinative and polysynthetic grammar, and the dearth of teaching material.
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junon 1544 days ago
I don't know any of those words :D
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Rendello 1544 days ago
The basic jist is that Ojibwe (and many American languages) have very long, complex words that are formed in a much different way to English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxARj07jFp0
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junon 1544 days ago
I see, thanks for the info, lots to read up on!
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Rendello 1544 days ago
The writing system (Syllabics) is quite simple [1]. The languages that use the writing systems, like Inuktitut, Cree, Ojibwe, and Oji-Cree (aka Severn Ojibwe; the language in the article) are not related to English and are difficult to find comprehensive resources for online.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4hI_METac

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