I do not think the the Niqqud (Vowels) should be used for the picture of Hebrew, as it is hardly ever used among fluent speakers of the language while reading, and most read Hebrew without the Niqqud.
Thank you. Yes, picking a sample instead of the complete alphabet made the image search easier. I remember some of them are a political party or a random newspaper.
There may be mistakes of course, as I am completely unfamiliar with almost all of them. Any comment is very welcome :)
Added. Apparently the one depicted here is an alphabet for the Cree language, which is somehow different to Inuktitut, but for the purposes of this quiz I feel it is enough to identify it. Thank you.
Nice work! I would suggest adding a caveat stating that this includes real and fictional languages (Klingon, Elvish, etc.). Also, an extra minute would be much appreciated. I don't think 4 minutes are enough time for 40 answers. You must allow for some thinking time.
Ehm... maybe im wrong but you should add more correct answers for Chinese like Mandarin (talked by people these days), Cantonese (by people who live in hongkong and some other areas),... as what i know, on the picture is Mandarin. Anw you made an awesome quiz! I really like it.
It's not about the language but about the script though. I agree there should be more type-ins on that one, but Mandarin or Cantonese would be wrong, in my opinion.
So, any suggestions? It currently accepts, Chinese, Hanzi and Simplified Chinese. Kept Kanji and Hanza aside, maybe I should add them... not sure which more type-ins to add. Thank you.
Mandarin and Cantonese are spoken languages. Both can use either Traditional Chinese writing (used in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and much of the Chinese diaspora) or Simplified Chinese writing (used mostly in Mainland China). This example is Simplified Chinese —it says "Chinese Communist Party" in Simplified Chinese, which can be zhong guo gong chan dang in Mandarin, jung gwok gung caan dong in Cantonese, etc.
Great quiz, but damn, you need to work on the type-ins here. Surely 'hyroglyphs' should be accepted rather than just 'Egyptian', and 'hanzu'/'kanji' should really be accepted for Chinese characters. There's plenty of others well. This quiz really has potential though, so I've nominated it all the same!
Added more type ins for Hieroglyphs, hard word, that's why I accepted Egyptian. Not sure about the Chinese ones though. What others you think they need more type ins? Thank you.
Thank you, good idea!! I added an extra row with this one, a native American one, one more from India and a curious one from an insular country (actually consider by Wikipedia as one of the major scripts in the world, and it was missing!)
Great quiz! The picture you have for Elvish is written using Tengwar, the alphabet used for the elvish languages, but the text there is the inscription from the One Ring, which is in the Black Speech.
So do you think it should be changed? If it is using Tengwar, this quiz is about scripts so it should be accepted even though the language is not Elvish iself. But to be honest, I have zero idea.
Done. Apparently that's the name of the language, and what's given here is the name of the script. But added as well, for the purpose of this quiz I feel it is enough.
Yes I agree - I really enjoyed it but did get a lot of them just by typing random stuff in thinking "that will probably be in there somewhere". It would be more satisfying (though harder) with the yellow box.
As usual, I missed an important detail before starting the quiz and didn't realize there were fictional languages included. But the fourteen-year-old nerd in me is alive and kicking, apparently. Saw that script out of Tolkien and recognized it immediately. Went back and got one of the other made-up scripts. (I tried "Predatorish" for the Star Wars language. Kind of reminds me of the digital readout on the Predator's wrist-mounted control panel gizmo. Probably misremembering it, though.)
Great quiz, but can I ask for slightly more time? Also, can bichig be accepted for the Mongolian script? Furthermore, I suggest that the "main name" of the Elvish script be changed to Tengwar, because that is the name of the script.
I made a similar quiz but with very limited answers because I was very picky about it
There may be mistakes of course, as I am completely unfamiliar with almost all of them. Any comment is very welcome :)
Thai: 0E00-0E7F
Greek: 0370-03FF
Hangul: all over the place
Hebrew: 0590-05FF
Latin: mostly 0000-00FF
Mongolian: 1800-18AF
Braille: 2800-28FF
Klingon: not in Unicode
Devanagari: 0900-097F
Armenian: 0530-058F
Morse Code: not in Unicode separate from normal dots and dashes
Tamil: 0B80-0BFF
Cuneiform: 12000-1247F
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: 1400-167F
Voynich: not in Unicode (and shouldn't be until it's translated)
Syriac: 0700-074F
Ethiopic: 1200-139F
Chinese: all over the place
Arabic: 0600-06FF
Runic: 16A0-16FF
Lao: 0E80-0EFF
Egyptian Hieroglyphs: 13000-1342F
Mayan Numerals: 1D2E0-1D2FF
Katakana: 30A0-30FF
Aurebesh: not in Unicode
Myanmar: 1000-109F
Phoenician: 10900-1091F
Gothic: 10330-1034F
Elvish: not in Unicode
Bengali: 0980-09FF
Tibetan: 0F00-0FFF
Georgian: 10A0-10FF
IPA: 0250-02AF
Rongorongo: not in Unicode (untranslated)
Telugu: 0C00-0C7F
Javanese: 0A980-A9DF
Khmer: 1780-17FF
Cyrillic: 0400-052F
Sign Language: not in Unicode
Gujarati: 0A80-0AFF
Cherokee: 13A0-13FF
Thaana: 0780-07BF
Malayalam: 0D00-0D7F
Anyway, nice quiz! Some other suggestions that you can add: Nastaliq (used to write Farsi and Urdu) and Gurmukhi (Punjabi).
How about making it more difficult in the way that answer must match the highlighted script? Of course that could use a bit longer time then.
(Or make second quiz - one easy and one difficult variant.)
Feels nice to be able to recognise Rongorongo
You scored 6/44 = 14%
This beats or equals 6.6% of test takers
The average score is 18
Your high score is 6
I'm so bad 😂😭💀
I think this quiz could (should) use yellow box and more time. So people won't start spamming languages, which is a lot less fun