Great quiz! Can you please accept more spellings for 'thank you' in Italian? I tried every phonetic combination I could think of but still didn't get it. Wah me. Grazie!
Wow that is very cool, I have never seen that script/alphabet before (and I thought I knew most, because I have often looked up stuff about origins of (written) language. Maybe I have seen it before, but only written and not as computer letters)
As a Greek, I find the Amharic alphabet and Ethiopian culture fascinating. It was amazing to find Orthodox temples in the heart of Africa and even people who could read greek.
Gràcies per la bona prova! Només el 80 per cent de les persones sap que el català és la llengua de Barcelona i de tota Catalunya? Això no és suficient...
I've never read catalan before and I could understand it all. As a portuguese native speaker it should be some similarities but I didn't thought it was that easy.
Pretty sure English remains an official language of Pakistan, although the Constitution specifies that steps should be taken to transition to Urdu-only. http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part12.ch4.html
The most common language in Singapore is English, not Chinese. Chinese languages might have slightly more native speakers than English but English is more or less the common tongue of Singapore, spoken by most people.
Chinese is the most spoken if you combine dialects. 47.1% of the population speaks a Chinese dialect at home in comparison to 36.9% speaking English at home. This does not account for lingua franca in public/business, which would be quite hard to accurately quantify.
As a Singaporean, I find it quite hard to believe that Chinese is more commonly spoken than English...as a first language, maybe, but not if you look at the total number of speakers.
Data from Ethnologue seems to support this (Chinese wins for first language speakers, but English wins overall), though this article says that English is more commonly spoken at home too.
I was brought up to believe that Valenciano was a unique language native to the Valencia region in Spain. Turns out it is just Catalan! While there might be slight local variations, people would fight you for suggesting such blasphemy, which seems disproportionate now… language/dialect arguments are almost ENTIRELY political.
I am once again pointing out that the fact about Singapore is no longer true; English has overtaken Chinese. Refer to the 2020 Census, Table 42 on page 164.
You could, of course, fix the question by changing it to a country other than China and Taiwan in which Chinese is an official language.
I should also point out that English still remains ahead even if we add the number of speakers of Mandarin and Chinese dialects (which are listed separately) together.
Italian is the de facto language of Vatican City, not the official language. The Fundamental Law of Vatican City does not establish an official language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu
"Urdu and Hindi share a common Indo-Aryan vocabulary base, phonology and syntax, making them mutually intelligible in colloquial speech"
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sn.html
Data from Ethnologue seems to support this (Chinese wins for first language speakers, but English wins overall), though this article says that English is more commonly spoken at home too.
"Urdu and Hindi share a common Indo-Aryan vocabulary base, phonology and syntax, making them mutually intelligible in colloquial speech"
You could, of course, fix the question by changing it to a country other than China and Taiwan in which Chinese is an official language.