User:Thefamouseccles

I'm a 19 year old amateur linguist from Brisbane, Australia. My appetite for languages runs from the unusual (to be kind) to the crazy (to be frank). In the past, I have studied Ubykh, !Kung, Pirahã (for which three I wrote the Wikipedia pages), Elvish and Klingon, and cast a cursory glance over the Salishan languages, the South Caucasian languages and the Semitic languages. To be more down-to-earth, I have also studied French intensively, Basque and Ancient Egyptian cursorily in my spare time, and I have smatterings of Spanish and German.

I actually speak tourist-level !Kung, middling good French, and I can say "I don't speak (language)" (probably the single most useful phrase you can learn in a foreign language, except for "Do you speak English?") in the following languages:

French: je ne parle pas le français

German: ich spreche kein Deutsch

Klingon: tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaHbe'

!Kung: mi /ua okx'wi zhu/'hoã kokxoie

Spanish: yo no hablo español

Ubykh: tuaxë bzra asëmq'an

As you may have noticed from my username, I'm an avid fan of the Goon Show, a mid-20th Century radio comedy.