But maybe you could be more tolerant to incorrect Endings like for example {Etruscian, Etruscic} for Etruscan. They are mostly extinct languages with a less standardized Names, which can make it unnecessarily difficult even for Persons who know their Stuff. Also you could accept Aquitanian for Vasconic.
But otherwise I love your Quiz in both Idea and Execution.
Got 20... feel like I should have gotten a few more, though, after seeing the answers.
I see some comments above referencing Nabatean and Etruscan but didn't see those on the quiz even though I guessed them.... was the quiz shrunk or simplified?
Thanks! These quizzes that take so much time to do research on, mainly due to the fact that information about historical languages can be very scarce and approximate dates of language death can be very misleading. Later versions of this quiz had certain languages both removed and added due to mistakes I made before.
Thanks! For sure! I learned quite a bit while originally making this one too. I personally think it's pretty fun learning about ancient languages that are no longer spoken today.
Punic descends from Phoenician. As Carthaginians descend from the colonising Phoenicians in modern-day Tunisia, the Punic language would slowly become separate from the Phoenician language.
Ubykh only disappeared with the death of its last native speaker in the last century. It was known for its paucity of vowels and proliferation of consonants; it was once described as sounding like a handful of pebbles dropped onto a marble floor.
And as late as 1992 too. Always sad when language death occurs, but I believe that a lot of it was thankfully preserved through audio recordings and other documentation.
It is true however that Coptic started developing in the 1st or/and 2nd centuries, though the exact point of diversion from Demotic isn't completely certain. Coptic was mostly definitely separate by the 3rd century. These type-ins should also already work.
1. I think you should either group Berber with Afroasiatic (because Berber is Afroasiatic) or rename "Afroasiatic" to "other Afroasiatic" or something like that.
2. I think you should unite the Indo-European isolates together (Lusitanian, Greek, Armenian) instead of puting them in "other" to give a bit more clarity
Thanks! Khinalug was a lot more far-spread back then but later declined with the spread of the Azeri language. Unfortunately a lot of other languages in the Northwest and Northeast Caucasian language families have also declined a lot since then and consist of a lot of threatened languages spoken by just mere thousands or less.
But otherwise I love your Quiz in both Idea and Execution.
And of course I nominated it.
nominated and favourited
I see some comments above referencing Nabatean and Etruscan but didn't see those on the quiz even though I guessed them.... was the quiz shrunk or simplified?
It's these quizzes that particularly deserve the spotlight in my opinion — they're super well-made, but also rather niche.
I have a few suggestions though:
1. I think you should either group Berber with Afroasiatic (because Berber is Afroasiatic) or rename "Afroasiatic" to "other Afroasiatic" or something like that.
2. I think you should unite the Indo-European isolates together (Lusitanian, Greek, Armenian) instead of puting them in "other" to give a bit more clarity
Still a great idea for a quiz!
Awesome quiz dude! Kudos!!