# Let’s identify these 63 languages **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346 "2020-08-30T02:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/63 "2020-08-30T22:12:40Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Just because this seems somewhat relevant to this topic, I just want to note that if one is using the @ so that it will notify a user, one must spell the user name correctly. Thanks, **yarnescA**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/64 "2020-08-30T22:30:24Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > > [@Acsenray](#): > > > > Just because this seems somewhat relevant to this topic, I just want to note that if one is using the @ so that it will notify a user, one must spell the user name correctly. > > Thanks, **yarnescA**. 😉 👉🏻 I see you ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/65 "2020-08-30T22:50:14Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > 18 looks like Ethiopian > 22 looks like Cambodian 22 is indeed Cambodian, which is actually called Khmer, as I identified earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/66 "2020-08-30T22:51:35Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Wait, no, 27 is Ethiopian. 18 is something else. > > 22 and 28 are Thai and Cambodian but I can’t tell which is which. 22 is Khmer and 28 Thai. I said earlier that I can even read 28 perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/67 "2020-08-30T23:48:21Z")
#43 could be Telugu. (I don’t speak or read it, but it [looks like this is the right alphabet/diacritics - kind of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_script).) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/68 "2020-08-31T03:18:55Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > > [@Colibri](#): > > > > > [@Acsenray](#): > > > > > > Just because this seems somewhat relevant to this topic, I just want to note that if one is using the @ so that it will notify a user, one must spell the user name correctly. > > > > Thanks, **yarnescA**. 😉 > > 👉🏻 I see you “Yarnesca” is actually a cool-sounding name! I’m going to keep that one in my pocket for I don’t know role playing or other user name situations! ---
**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/69 "2020-08-31T11:50:57Z")
1. is Russian and 10) is Polish. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/70 "2020-08-31T16:27:05Z")
Where are we now on this? ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/71 "2020-08-31T19:28:23Z")
Because of the way that Discourse builds pages dynamically, they’re very difficult to search. The browser search only works on a few posts and the Discourse search says that searching by a number (say, 16) is too short. I’ll try to figure something out after work. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/72 "2020-08-31T20:25:52Z")
I hate to come in late and ask this … but do we have a running list of which languages have been identified and which ones are pending? A quick perusal makes it look like “no”, but I wanted to ask all the same. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/73 "2020-08-31T20:43:01Z")
Post 34 was the most recent “To Be Determined” list. > [@Let’s identify these 63 languages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/34): > > As nearly as I can tell, given Discourse’s propensity to screw things up, the remaining unidentified languages are 16, 23, 36, 41, 43, 44, 48, 53, 57, and 58. I’ve created a new image of the ones left and put it here: [Remaining - 1.](https://imgur.com/Vi8slSg) ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/74 "2020-08-31T20:47:50Z")
58 has been identified as Marshallese (I concur with that, BTW - I thought it probably was but wasn’t sure enough to say so, and then another poster identified it as such.) ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/75 "2020-08-31T20:53:52Z")
Looks like 48 and 53 are the only two left pending. Without research, I’m going to call #48 the Lao language of Laos. Will verify in a minute. #53 is trickier. I think **gdave** and **DPRK** are on the right track thinking Syriac or another Semitic language, but I can’t make a positive ID without some digging. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/76 "2020-08-31T20:55:24Z")
Yes, #48 is Lao – the fourth word is the word for “Lao”. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/77 "2020-08-31T21:03:51Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > So, probably Chaldean or Assyrian Neo-Aramaic? I’ve zoomed in close and looked at the native name for Assyrian ( _Sūreṯ_) in native script … I am satisfied that #53 is Assyrian. Chaldean is usually considered a dialect of Assyrian, but the difference between “language” and “dialect” can be blurry. In any case, they fall under the same “umbrella”. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/78 "2020-08-31T21:06:22Z")
Do you mean 53? 58 had been identified as Marshallese. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/79 "2020-08-31T21:07:31Z")
Yep, **Nars** … fixed my post. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/81 "2020-08-31T21:24:14Z")
(reposted, fixed numbering) I’ve been amusing myself with this same habit for many years now. Always fun to see what I’ve learned at this point in life, and things that are still completely alien. Here’s my list. Obviously some items are gimmes because they actually state the name of the language. It seems like I am a giant bluffer about what I thought I knew of Arabic and Indic scripts, and haven’t made any investments whatsoever in African languages. 1. English 2. Spanish 3. Chinese 4. Vietnamese 5. Korean 6. Tagalog (cheated) 7. Russian 8. Arabic 9. Haitian Creole 10. French 11. Polish 12. Portuguese 13. Italian 14. Japanese 15. German 16. Can’t even guess 17. Hindi 18. Thai? 19. Burmese (guess) 20. Hmoob (cheated) 21. Related to 16? 22. Thai? 23. ok obviously I suck at indic script 24. Hebrew 25. Samoan (cheat) 26. Amharic 27. Obviously Thai 28. Finnish, all those double consonants 29. Wild guess, Deitsch (Pennsylvania German / Dutch) 30. says Chamoru in the appositive brackets, but I don’t know what that is 31. Greek 32. says Pohnpei in the appositive brackets, but I don’t know what that is 33. Burundi 34. Guessing an African language? 35. no idea 36. Swahili? 37. Cherokee? 38. mentions Indonesia 39. Turkish 40. ok I’m not good with Arabic scripts either 41. another African language? 42. It’s all emojis 43. vaguely Albanian looking? 44. Norwegian. 45. Catalan. 46. No idea 47. Definitely Thai this time! 48. no. idea 49. Definitely Albanian 50. Serbo-croat (politically incorrect but that’s what it says) 51. Russian. Wait, then what was 7 52. another mystery Arabic contender? 53. Nigerian? 54. Absolutely this is Thai 55. Dutch 56. Amharic 57. no idea 58. it’s all emojis 59. Romanian 60. no idea 61. Hawaiian 62. Liturgical Hawaiian idk ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/82 "2020-08-31T21:38:08Z")
AFAICT, we still don’t have a good guess for 29 (Sorry **HMS\_Irruncialbe,** it doesn’t look Germanic to me and Pennsylvania Dutch was 30.) ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346/83 "2020-08-31T21:40:35Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > AFAICT, we still don’t have a good guess for 29. Oops – I overlooked that one earlier . #29 is Somali (Oroomiffa). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-identify-these-63-languages/919346.md?page=5)