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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Apr 29, 2020 0:50:31 GMT
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Post by gameboy on Apr 29, 2020 2:43:39 GMT
I got 62%. They made some errors though. Tagalog and Filipino are the same language. Indonesian and Bahasa are the same language. Once I said Tagalog and Bahasa I felt it redundant to say Filipino and Indonesian.
Wu? Southern Min? Jin? I'll assume those are Chinese dialects. I never would have guessed those.
Fun quiz though.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Apr 29, 2020 2:45:43 GMT
I got 62%. They made some errors though. Tagalog and Filipino are the same language. Indonesian and Bahasa are the same language. Once I said Tagalog and Bahasa I felt it redundant to say Filipino and Indonesian. Wu? Southern Min? Jin? I'll assume those are Chinese dialects. I never would have guessed those. Fun quiz though. The Chinese dialects can be different, ask Ebony. But the CCP insists it's all Chinese because they want their one China.
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Post by gameboy on Apr 29, 2020 2:50:37 GMT
I got 62%. They made some errors though. Tagalog and Filipino are the same language. Indonesian and Bahasa are the same language. Once I said Tagalog and Bahasa I felt it redundant to say Filipino and Indonesian. Wu? Southern Min? Jin? I'll assume those are Chinese dialects. I never would have guessed those. Fun quiz though. The Chinese dialects can be different, ask Ebony. But the CCP insists it's all Chinese because they want their one China. Oh, I worked for a Taiwanese corporation. I know that Cantonese and Mandarin speakers can't understand each other verbally. The one thing they do share is a common written language with the Chinese characters though.
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Post by loofapotato on Apr 29, 2020 4:34:42 GMT
64% but that's on my third try. 50% on my first try.
Surprised that Shanghainese is called Wu and Hunan is called Xiāng. There was an African one, Akan that was different to what I knew. Knowing the dialects for India and Indonesia is hard to remember because there are many. China would be the other.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 29, 2020 5:20:13 GMT
I got 62%. They made some errors though. Tagalog and Filipino are the same language. Indonesian and Bahasa are the same language. Once I said Tagalog and Bahasa I felt it redundant to say Filipino and Indonesian. Wu? Southern Min? Jin? I'll assume those are Chinese dialects. I never would have guessed those. Fun quiz though. Amazing. 4 languages (5 if you count English) in those 50 listed by the quiz spoken widely in my own province. And this also confirms my province has most number of major languages in India. My state is one of the 30 states in India. Magahi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Hindi and English.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 29, 2020 5:30:59 GMT
Amazing. 4 languages (5 if you count English) in those 50 listed by the quiz spoken widely in my own province. And this also confirms my province has most number of major languages in India. My state is one of the 30 states in India. Magahi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Hindi and English.
Why does India have so many different languages? 
Is it due to differences in religion/ethnicity?
There are different cultures in India. Most of the states in India are as populous as countries of Europe. In fact some states are more populous than any country of Europe. India basically is like many different countries standing together having Vedic culture as the unifying factor. India as a country emerged basically as a political movement against evil and brutal Islamic attack on Indian subcontinent.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Apr 29, 2020 5:50:14 GMT
Why does India have so many different languages?
Is it due to differences in religion/ethnicity?
There are different cultures in India. Most of the states in India are as populous as countries of Europe. In fact some states are more populous than any country of Europe. India basically is like many different countries standing together having Vedic culture as the unifying factor. India as a country emerged basically as a political movement against evil and brutal Islamic attack on Indian subcontinent. Didn't the British play a big part in India's borders? It was long since a collection of different kingdoms.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 29, 2020 5:54:39 GMT
There are different cultures in India. Most of the states in India are as populous as countries of Europe. In fact some states are more populous than any country of Europe. India basically is like many different countries standing together having Vedic culture as the unifying factor. India as a country emerged basically as a political movement against evil and brutal Islamic attack on Indian subcontinent. Didn't the British play a big part in India's borders? It was long since a collection of different kingdoms. They did play a part in creating modern day boundaries of India, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistan (now Pakistan). But the resistance to Islamic invasion had begun during the attempted forceful Islamic conquest of India. The Vedic culture and offshoots (like Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism) is what binds these kingdoms together as a single entity. Although Islam will eventually prevail in India given exploding population of Indian Muslims and their high birthrate and backwardness.
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 29, 2020 6:17:39 GMT
I got 62%. They made some errors though. Tagalog and Filipino are the same language. Indonesian and Bahasa are the same language. Once I said Tagalog and Bahasa I felt it redundant to say Filipino and Indonesian. Wu? Southern Min? Jin? I'll assume those are Chinese dialects. I never would have guessed those. Fun quiz though. Wu is Shanghainese. I learnt that by typing in the latter and “Wu” came up instead. (I only got 48%)
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Post by gameboy on Apr 29, 2020 6:35:06 GMT
I got 62%. They made some errors though. Tagalog and Filipino are the same language. Indonesian and Bahasa are the same language. Once I said Tagalog and Bahasa I felt it redundant to say Filipino and Indonesian. Wu? Southern Min? Jin? I'll assume those are Chinese dialects. I never would have guessed those. Fun quiz though. Wu is Shanghainese. I learnt that by typing in the latter and “Wu” came up instead. (I only got 48%) You should get extra points for even knowing Shanghainese. I've never heard it called that.
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 29, 2020 9:48:01 GMT
Wu is Shanghainese. I learnt that by typing in the latter and “Wu” came up instead. (I only got 48%) You should get extra points for even knowing Shanghainese. I've never heard it called that. I didn’t know that it was a dialect either until I saw some white guy speak it on a YouTube video. e.g.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Apr 29, 2020 12:40:15 GMT
18 out of 50. Says I got 17, but it was a stickler for the spelling of Portuguese.
Surprised I didn't get Italian.
Joker's Wilde
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Post by Nora on Apr 29, 2020 16:54:18 GMT
22 and am so disappointed with myself for not knowing many of the Indian languages even though I spent time living there and learning about the culture. Bad Nora, bad. Fun quiz though. Doing the european ones was easy, North and South Americas also, major Asian ones too, but then the fun started. Oh and turns out I cant spell Ukrainian. Very impressed by those of you who had more than 50%. Especially the Asian ones. Aj_June must have had most of them though, no?  |
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 29, 2020 18:51:29 GMT
22 and am so disappointed with myself for not knowing many of the Indian languages even though I spent time living there and learning about the culture. Bad Nora, bad. Fun quiz though. Doing the european ones was easy, Nort and South Americas also, major Asian ones too, but then the fun started. Oh and turns out I cant spell Ukrainian. Very impressed by those of you who had more than 50%. Especially the Asian ones. ? 22 is solid result I had an advantage of spelling out over 10 languages from India. Not apparently. 68%. I should have gone from east to west or from west to east instead of randomly remembering names. I missed Japanese and Korean among the famous ones and spent time trying to put Finnish even though system didn't accept it. I also tried my luck with different spellings of Swahili but to no luck.
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Post by Nora on Apr 29, 2020 20:27:48 GMT
22 and am so disappointed with myself for not knowing many of the Indian languages even though I spent time living there and learning about the culture. Bad Nora, bad. Fun quiz though. Doing the european ones was easy, Nort and South Americas also, major Asian ones too, but then the fun started. Oh and turns out I cant spell Ukrainian. Very impressed by those of you who had more than 50%. Especially the Asian ones. ? 22 is solid result I had an advantage of spelling out over 10 languages from India. Not apparently. 68%. I should have gone from east to west or from west to east instead of randomly remembering names. I missed Japanese and Korean among the famous ones and spent time trying to put Finnish even though system didn't accept it. I also tried my luck with different spellings of Swahili but to no luck. same with finnish and swahili  )) |
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Post by gameboy on Apr 30, 2020 1:41:38 GMT
22 and am so disappointed with myself for not knowing many of the Indian languages even though I spent time living there and learning about the culture. Bad Nora, bad. Fun quiz though. Doing the european ones was easy, Nort and South Americas also, major Asian ones too, but then the fun started. Oh and turns out I cant spell Ukrainian. Very impressed by those of you who had more than 50%. Especially the Asian ones. ? 22 is solid result I had an advantage of spelling out over 10 languages from India. Not apparently. 68%. I should have gone from east to west or from west to east instead of randomly remembering names. I missed Japanese and Korean among the famous ones and spent time trying to put Finnish even though system didn't accept it. I also tried my luck with different spellings of Swahili but to no luck. Funny, I missed Japanese and Korean too even though they're obvious. I scanned the globe in my head as I added languages, but got stuck in China trying to think of all the dialects.
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Post by clayton12 on Apr 30, 2020 2:19:42 GMT
My first reaction was wonder if it's true that less than 27.5% of Javanese speakers can speak Indonesian - then I realised that according to the results, less than 9.8% of Indonesians speak Indonesian! Something doesn't seem quite right with the figures ...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 15:30:02 GMT
52%. I pretty much listed all the languages I hear regularly as a cashier. I took some linguistics classes in university so I think I've got an advantage. The biggest one I didn't get was Javanese, and I'm not familiar with many of the non-Hindi languages of the Indian subcontinent. I listed all the Romance, Slavic, Germanic, and Turkic languages I could remember.
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