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Default 07-09-2008, 21:34

Today we had a Hawaii-themed luncheon, and I learned that the Hawaiian language only has 5 vowels (i,a,o,u and e), as well as 7 consonants (p, h, m, n, k, l and w).

I thought of how many relatively common-place sounds are unreproduceable in Hawaiian and it blew my mind something fierce. Then I imagined a native Hawaiian trying to learn some consonant-overdosed language, such as Czech (where the word for "heart" is "srce"), and it blew whatever was left.


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