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Countries of the World in Each JetPunk Language

Some have the word quiz after them, some don't!
The COTW Quiz isn't the highest taken in Venetian!
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Last updated: April 19, 2023
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First submittedJanuary 15, 2023
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Language
Quiz
Arabic
دول العالم
Bulgarian
Държавите на света
Czech
Státy světa
Danish
Verdens lande
German
Länder der Welt Quiz
Estonian
Maailma riigid
Greek
Χώρες του Κόσμου-Ελληνικά
English
Countries of the World Quiz
Spanish
Países del Mundo
French
Pays du monde
Croatian
Države svijeta
Italian
Paesi del Mondo
Hungarian
A Világ Országai Kvíz - Magyarul
Language
Quiz
Dutch
Landen van de Wereld
Japanese
世界の国々
Norwegian
Verdens land
Polish
Państwa Świata
Portugese
Países do Mundo
Russian
Страны мира
Serbian
Države sveta
Finnish
Maailman valtiot
Swedish
Världens länder
Telugu
ప్రపంచంలో అన్నీ దేశాలు
Turkish
Dünya Ülkeleri
Venetian
Paezi de'l Mondo
Chinese
世界国家
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Level 49
Jan 15, 2023
This was interesting, as language quizzes usually are, thank you!

I got: Finnish (native), Estonian (closely related, learned), Swedish (learned), Norwegian (close to Swedish, "verdens" I know on the name of newspaper), Spanish (learned enough to know) and English (yes).

Close ones: Danish (of course near Norwegian, couldn't guess the exact form), French (Spanish helps in Romance, "pays" is familiar because of Netherlands, but I got "de" instead of "du"), German (learned some, knew "Welt", but didn't the right combination).

"Countries of the World" uses preposition "of" in expressing the relation of possession or part/whole. For example in Finnic languages this is expressed using genitive, like in "maailman valtiot" with -n (in Estonian this -n has dropped out in the end of the word). English equivalent would be World's Countries. I wasn't sure about every language, which one they use, but Romance languages use "de" or some variation of it.

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Level 59
Jan 15, 2023
Glad to know you liked it!

You seem to be very multilingual!

So, is the n in Finnish showing that it belongs to the world? Like 's?

Yeah, the de/du is one of the first thing you learn when learning a romance language.

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Level 49
Jan 15, 2023
Finnish is a small language, so we learn at least English and Swedish, which is also official language in Finland (Swedish speakers learn Finnish, but they know it, because they are bilingual). I am far from polyglot, but interested in languages, like you clearly are!

Yes, Finnish genitive case expressing possession has ending -n, which is attached to the root of word meaning owner. For example my name is Mika and cat is "kissa" in Finnish. So, "Mikan kissa" means 'Mika's cat'. In sentence "Helsinki on Suomen pääkaupunki" 'Helsinki is the capital of Finland' the country name Suomi is in genitive case with -n (and there is also a vowel change in the stem of the word, but this feature is not peculiar to genitive).

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Level 59
Jan 15, 2023
Cool! I wouldn't say I'm intrested in languages per see, I just want to learn a few. I know English and Telugu, I want to learn Spanish, French and Dutch. And just for you, maybe I'll learn finnish.
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Level 49
Jan 15, 2023
Great! I checked, according to Wikipedia Telugu had in year 2011 83 million speakers, so it is a big language.

Learning languages serve many functions. If there is a practical function, some small language is very special knowledge compared to big language like Spanish or French, which has speakers on many continents. On the other hand, there is also a pleasure of learning. Every language is carrying the culture of the speakers and they should be preserved like treasures. We need lingua franca like we are using English here, but every language is valuable part of human history (and they change, it is natural development in them).

I am learning Estonian to understand it better, because I want to read biographies in original language. It is not the only reason, I want also talk with it. This is part of my Finnic heritage, the motivation comes from it.

There are infinite reasons to learn languages, and I wish you enjoyable learning!

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Level 59
Jan 15, 2023
Same to you! I am actually look to make Telugu a JetPunk language, like the ones you see here.
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Level 49
Jan 15, 2023
Thanks! It would be great to have Telugu here.