I’m at my mother in law’s house and she receives a monthly insert with instructions to call in 63 different languages. I’m curious how many of them we can identify. Some of them are really cool looking. After the first post, I’ll put the number and the language I think it is. Some are obvious. Some are just crazy.
Your numbering is off by one from #9 - you have missed #9 in the image which appears to be Haitian Creole. Then #10 is French etc.
ETA: then after the first page I’m not sure what’s happening. You seem to be going to a different page than the second page in the images in the OP.
- uses Arabic letters, but it is not Arabic. For one thing, it’s written in the wrong direction.
I think 21 is Urdu.
Going back to 8, I can’t make heads or tails of it. My Arabic has rusted almost to the point of non-existence, so it might be a really bad attempt at translation, but it’s really weird. Judging by the position of the colon, the word order is left to right, the opposite of Arabic, but the individual words seem to be written with the letters right to left. The words also seem to mix terminal forms of letters where they should be the medial forms.
Summabitch. It’s because I created a list and then had a cut/paste snafu.
This should be the second post. I deleted the original that Riemann pointed out was all messed up.
- English
- Spanish
- Chinese
- Vietnamese
- Korean
- Tagalog
- Russian?
- Arabic?
- French
- Polish?
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Japanese
- German
- Hmong
- Hebrew
- Dutch
- Greek
- Norwegian?
- Catalan?
Still off, that seems to be the same as the original second post.
I give up. I previewed it but Discourse seems to remove my numbers and add its own.
Going back to 8…
I think it might be a truly abysmal “translation” to Arabic where…I don’t even know what the world would be for what they did. It’s like they took the word for “you say”, “TaTaHaDaTH”, and they transcribed it letter by letter, using the wrong forms, in the wrong direction. And using the wrong word to begin with - they should have used “TaTaKaLaM”, “you speak”.
Okay, it’s Discourse numbering things its own way. Yeah, it does that.
Your list of languages in post #8 (I think), as displayed here, at least from #16 on, has no resemblance whatever to the second image.
How about, from image #2:
25. Hebrew
26. Samoan?
30. Pennsylvania German/Dutch (it says right there)
32. Greek
39 is easy … it’s Indonesian. I was looking for “perhatian” because I knew it would most likely start with that word, but when you keep reading you can see the word “Indonesia” right in there.
I saw that about “Pennsylvania German/Dutch” but the wording confused me. Is it different than “regular” Dutch? Also, I’ve never heard of Pennsylvania German.
Yes. It is closer to German than Dutch.
It’s a dialect of German (aka Deutsch aka Deitsch) spoken by German immigrants who mainly settled in Pennsylvania - Amish and Mennonites.
Here are some more - if I’m not 100% sure I included a question mark, but the others I am certain of:
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Chamorro?
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Pohnpeian
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Romanian?
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Chuukese
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Hawaiian?
Dammit! Discourse added its own numbers to my list and overwrote mine. Stupid!
Anyway…31 is Chamorro, I think (not sure).
33 is definitely Pohnpeian - I used to live on Pohnpei so I know.
Next up is 60, which I think might be Romanian but it is only a guess.
Then 61, which is definitely Chuukese (also known from my time in Micronesia)
And finally, I believe 62 is Hawaiian but I’m not 100 % sure. If it isn’t Hawaiian it is a closely related Pacific Island language.
Compiling what we have so far with a few additions by me:
1: English
2: Spanish
3: Chinese
4: Vietnamese
5: Korean
6: Tagalog
7: Russian
8: Arabesque 
9: Haitian Creole
10: French
11: Polish
12: Portuguese
13: Italian
14: Japanese
15: German
20: Hmong
25: Hebrew
26: Samoan
30: Pennsylvania Dutch
31: Chamorro
32: Greek
33: Pohnpeian
34: Kirundi (Burundi and nearby places)
35: Cebuano (minority Philippines language)
37: Swahili
38: Cherokee, but in the Roman alphabet
39: Indonesian
40: Turkish
42: also Kirundi?! it looks letter-for-letter identical to 34
45: Norwegian
46: Catalan
51: Serbo-Croatian
52: Ukrainian
56: Dutch
60: Romanian
61: Chuukese
62: Hawaiian
22 is definitely Khmer.
28 is Thai. I can even read it.
Yes, 62 is Hawaiian.
It’s a bit of a cheat, since each sentence says the name of the language it’s in. So you don’t have to know more than that word. Which is why I know - to take a couple at random - that:
37 is Swahili (“Kiswahili”).
38 is Cherokee (“tsalagi”).
39 is Bahasa (“Bahasa Indonesia”)
40 is Turkish (“Türkçe”).
45 is Norwegian (“norsk”)
46 is Catalan (“Catala”)
49 is Navajo (“Diné”)
50 is Albanian (“shqip”)*
51 is Serbo-Croatian (“srpsko-hrvatski”)*
56 is Dutch (“nederlands”)
60 is Romanian (“limba română”)
*Wasn’t positive about Albanian and Serbo-Croatian, but I looked them up after I guessed, and confirmed.
There are a couple more that I can’t be positive about, but suspect: 26 is Samoan, 27 is Amharic, 31 is Chamorro, 61 is Chuuk (a Polynesian language), 62 is Hawai’ian, 63 is Tongan, 35 is Cebuano, (a Filipino language).