Language trivia

 
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57 German German phrases are always full of surprise because of the unusual word order. Quite often the verb (that says what actually happened) is at the end of a sentence. Imagine a phrase like “The postman was *1* by the huge dog waiting for him since the sun had risen *2*.” While in English you’d put the verb in the middle of the phrase (*1*) in German you’d only know at the end (*2*) what actually happened: he was bitten/welcomed/chased/…..
58 Basque Basque language, called EUSKARA in Basque, is believed to be one of the oldest European languages. It is a pre-Indo-European language whose origins are unknown, and it remains unrelated, unclassified, in relation to the world's language families. A person who speaks Basque is called euskalduna.