Minions speak a language called either “Minionese” or sometimes the “banana language”. This is a constructed language invented for the Minions to speak in the films they are in. It is constructed of vocabulary of many real world languages as well as a fair share … Read more
It is difficult to say with much certainty, but King David would likely have spoken a form of Proto-Hebrew. Hebrew was not fully emerged at his time as a language, but taking the accounts we have of his life at face value, he would most … Read more
Bulgarian is considered a very difficult language for English speakers to learn. It is very different to English and has a great deal of complex cases and grammatical rules. Learning it is going to take a lot of time and commitment. It also uses the … Read more
The primary language spoken in Budapest is Hungarian. Around 98% of Hungary’s population speaks the language, which is also the state’s official dialect. There are other foreign languages spoken in Budapest. Budapest is the capital city of Hungary, founded in 1873. The city was created … Read more
The most common language spoken in Argentina is Spanish, with nearly all Argentinians speaking it as a first or second language. Over one million people speak at least one of the fifteen tribal languages of Argentina. Other foreign languages were imported during and after the … Read more
Hindi is considered a very difficult language to learn. For native English speakers in particular, it will be entirely unfamiliar. Learning any language is difficult, but this is especially true of Hindi. It has tricky enunciation, cadence and tone. That said, it’s far from impossible, … Read more
For English speakers, Tagalog is relatively difficult to learn. The two languages are based on fundamentally different grammatical conventions. Vocabulary is also vastly different. That said, pronunciation is relatively straightforward, as well as the writing system, so it’s not all bad. But Tagalog is fundamentally … Read more
Isaac Newton’s native language was English. He was born in England in 1642, and while the English of his day would have been markedly different from the English we speak today, they are both the same language by all definitions. Being an immensely learned man, … Read more
The official language in Croatia is none other than Croatian. 95% of the population speaks the language. Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin all take influence from Croatian. There are also minor languages spoken in Croatia. For example: Serbian, English, Italian, German, Hungarian, Slovak and Romani are all … Read more
Cleopatra’s native language was Koine Greek, a version of Greek which was spoken throughout the Hellenistic period. She is also supposed to have spoken as many as nine other languages, including Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syrian, and others. She was certainly the only Ptolemaic ruler … Read more