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All ISO 639-1 Languages with a Map

The ISO 639-1 list has 183 world languages, how many can you name, with the help of a map?
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Includes extinct and constructed languages
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Last updated: June 29, 2023
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Zulu
+15
Level 69
Jun 30, 2023
You can tell how Eurocentric this list is
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Level 32
Jul 6, 2023
Yeah like the fact they literally have Cornish and Manx yet barely any Indian languages. Still a fun quiz tho.
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Level 76
Jan 4, 2024
there are literally ten indian languages, what are you talking about
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Level 60
Jan 5, 2024
Those languages have a very large amount of speakers. It’s quite disproportionate.
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Level 67
Jan 31, 2024
Hey, what are you talking about? I bet Cornish and Manx litteray have ten speakers combined as well :D
+2
Level 59
Jan 30, 2024
also with constructed languages, at most there should only be Esperanto
+1
Level 61
Mar 26, 2024
I think a big part of it is preserving languages. Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, etc. Aren't going anywhere. But Manx, Cornish, Welsh, Navajo, etc. are endangered. Having an ISO 639-1 Code helps bring awareness. Other endangered languages don't have that kind of impact that the celtic languages did, or the local government doesn't want them preserved.
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Level 57
Jun 30, 2023
I love it so much
+4
Level 76
Jul 6, 2023
Was surprised at the exclusion of the major non-Mandarin Chinese languages (Cantonese, Wu, Xiang, Hakka). They seem to approach it in a very ethno-centric way. Great quiz!
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Level 67
Nov 30, 2023
Not even really tho. They make a distinction between Bosnian and Croatian when linguists generally agree they are dialects of the same language, Serbo-Croatian, but the speakers would consider themselves different. But they also break up Akan into itself and Twi, even though they are seen as generally a single ethnic group.

Also, they include about 40 european languages but only eight native american languages, like 3 Austronesian, and only 3 Sino-Tibetan. They also for some reason include the official languages of SA but then only include a few other African languages.

I know it's arbitrary but this entire thing makes 0 sense and it makes me want to smash my head against my wall and it was probably just made to make Europeans happy by recognizing their multiple barely different languages but then just saying, "screw the rest of the world it's not like they matter".

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Level 71
Dec 6, 2023
Well, there are four Sino-Tibetan languages here (Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, and Dzongkha), and many languages of Oceania are also Austronesian languages, but your point is really true. They do not even have Palauan, Tuvaluan, Gilbertese, Comorian, and Seychellois creole, even though they are official languages in at least one country.
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Level 80
Dec 16, 2023
Smash your head no longer! ISO-639-1 is short because it only records the two letter language codes (like ru for Russian or en for English) which is clearly not enough. ISO-639-3 is far more comprehensive.

(also -1 was last updated in like 2003, so there's that too)

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Level 61
Jan 24, 2024
Im making a quiz on all iso-3 codes lol
+1
Level 49
Feb 1, 2024
yay
+1
Level 61
Mar 26, 2024
I can now consistently get 100% without cheating