ḏd.f · ḫꜣ n.j ḫnw ḫmmj · ṯzw ḫppy · m mdwt mꜣ(w)t tmt swꜣ ·
‘He says: Would that I had phrases that are unknown, utterances that are strange, in a new language that has never yet passed by…’

Languages I work on

columns=2

(With approximateCEFR reference levels:)

• Serbo-Croatian: C2+. First (native) language, now a bit atrophied. Like most modernShtokavian speakers, I don’t distinguishshort falling syllables from short rising ones or vowel length in unstressed syllables.
• English: C2+. Second language, learned from ~4 years old, now better than Serbo-Croatian. Native depending on how you define ‘native’. MostlyMidland American/General American pronunciation with some influence from theNorthern Cities Vowel Shift. Nocot–caught merger, no fronted /u/, no /æ/-breaking, someCanadian raising, retroflex r[ɻ]. /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ raise to [e] and [o] before [ɻ], /æ/ raises to [e] before /ŋ/ (all remain monophthongal). My vowels are pretty close to the ones inthis chart, but with lower /æ/ and /ɛ/.
• German: B2–C1 for reading, much lower for production (B1-ish?).
• (Old and Middle) Egyptian: CEFR levels aren’t really applicable here. Maybe low B1-ish if I had to choose an equivalent. But even the most fluent Egyptologists don’t reach the fluency levels of advanced speakers of living languages, for obvious reasons.
• Old Church Slavonic, Middle English, Russian: all around B2 for reading, A2 forproduction. Somewhat more theoretical linguistic knowledge for the dead languages, somewhat better production for the living.
• Latin: A2- or B1-equivalent.
• Ancient Greek: A2-equivalent.
• Mandarin: Low A2.
• Slovene: A2 comprehension plus some theoretical knowledge. No production.
• Coptic: A1-ish, plus more in-depth knowledge of phonology and dialectology.
• Spanish: A1-ish. Better for written comprehension.
• Others: Macedonian and Bulgarian are at about B1 for comprehension via partial intelligibility with Serbo-Croat etc., but I’ve not yet made any conscious effort to learn them. Some reading knowledge of Middle High German, maybe A2-ish, but again no conscious effort to learn. Any former proficiency with Lojban has dwindled to nothing. I’ve made abortive efforts at learning Slavomolisano, Phoenician/Punic, Ye’kwana, Classical Chinese, Kurmanji, Late Egyptian, Demotic, K’iche’, Old English, Kabardian, French, Japanese, and Kari’na in the past, and so have some minimal knowledge of how they work.

• Wikiscan