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Title: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: garbon on May 30, 2012, 12:13:13 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18258902

Another feel good quiz.  :)
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Valmy on May 30, 2012, 12:16:24 PM
Sweden has a TV station in Aramaic?  Wanting to be ready when Jesus returns?
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Caliga on May 30, 2012, 07:35:12 PM
Don't some groups of people in Syria still speak it as an everyday language?  Maybe a bunch of them have emigrated to Sweden. :hmm:
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Valmy on May 30, 2012, 10:18:32 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 30, 2012, 07:35:12 PM
Don't some groups of people in Syria still speak it as an everyday language?  Maybe a bunch of them have emigrated to Sweden. :hmm:

I was under the impression from Slargos that all immigrants to Sweden are hardcore muslims trying to create a Swedish Kaliphate, while that language is typically spoken by Middle Eastern Christians so that is unlikely.
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Ideologue on May 30, 2012, 10:59:24 PM
5/7.  I said Breton instead of Manx and identified Aka as an East African language because it has a k in it and black people like hip hop.

The Cornish and Romansh ones were educated guesses, but the other ones I actually knew. :)
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: derspiess on May 31, 2012, 12:15:03 AM
2/7.  I really don't care about those shitty languages.  They're endangered or extinct for a reason.
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: jimmy olsen on May 31, 2012, 01:17:09 AM
3/7  :mad:
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Jaron on May 31, 2012, 01:33:08 AM
Fuck that quiz.
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Martinus on May 31, 2012, 02:28:47 AM
4/7
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Octavian on May 31, 2012, 02:35:57 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on May 30, 2012, 10:59:24 PM
5/7.  I said Breton instead of Manx and identified Aka as an East African language because it has a k in it and black people like hip hop.

The Cornish and Romansh ones were educated guesses, but the other ones I actually knew. :)

Heh that's exactly the way I did it.
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Ideologue on May 31, 2012, 02:37:10 AM
Fwiw, I looked it up and Aka is also the name of a central African language as well as one spoken in Sudan.  TAKE THAT BBC.
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Duque de Bragança on May 31, 2012, 03:01:23 AM
4/7

I can get by despite the Aka.

Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Valdemar on May 31, 2012, 05:29:12 AM
6/7 but some luck was involved

V
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: garbon on May 31, 2012, 08:12:01 AM
I like the one that had Simlish as an answer. :D
Title: Re: 7 questions on less-spoken languages
Post by: Josephus on May 31, 2012, 11:01:47 AM
I failed.  :(