Thanks, yarnescA. 
I see you
22 is indeed Cambodian, which is actually called Khmer, as I identified earlier.
22 is Khmer and 28 Thai. I said earlier that I can even read 28 perfectly.
#43 could be Telugu. (I don’t speak or read it, but it looks like this is the right alphabet/diacritics - kind of.)
“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!
- is Russian and 10) is Polish.
Where are we now on this?
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.
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.
Post 34 was the most recent “To Be Determined” list.
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.)
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.
Yes, #48 is Lao – the fourth word is the word for “Lao”.
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”.
Do you mean 53? 58 had been identified as Marshallese.
Yep, Nars … fixed my post.
(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.
- English
- Spanish
- Chinese
- Vietnamese
- Korean
- Tagalog (cheated)
- Russian
- Arabic
- Haitian Creole
- French
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Japanese
- German
- Can’t even guess
- Hindi
- Thai?
- Burmese (guess)
- Hmoob (cheated)
- Related to 16?
- Thai?
- ok obviously I suck at indic script
- Hebrew
- Samoan (cheat)
- Amharic
- Obviously Thai
- Finnish, all those double consonants
- Wild guess, Deitsch (Pennsylvania German / Dutch)
- says Chamoru in the appositive brackets, but I don’t know what that is
- Greek
- says Pohnpei in the appositive brackets, but I don’t know what that is
- Burundi
- Guessing an African language?
- no idea
- Swahili?
- Cherokee?
- mentions Indonesia
- Turkish
- ok I’m not good with Arabic scripts either
- another African language?
- It’s all emojis
- vaguely Albanian looking?
- Norwegian.
- Catalan.
- No idea
- Definitely Thai this time!
- no. idea
- Definitely Albanian
- Serbo-croat (politically incorrect but that’s what it says)
- Russian. Wait, then what was 7
- another mystery Arabic contender?
- Nigerian?
- Absolutely this is Thai
- Dutch
- Amharic
- no idea
- it’s all emojis
- Romanian
- no idea
- Hawaiian
- Liturgical Hawaiian idk
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.)
Oops – I overlooked that one earlier . #29 is Somali (Oroomiffa).