Victoria™

irish isn't even a language it's Gaelic

2 years ago

hawki

What about sami in the Nordic countries, kurdic in Turkey This quiz has a lot of errors as it does not include all languages spoken in each country.

2 years ago

famisamis

@Alfia - Thank you for the comments about Serbia. I updated the game to list 'Serbian' as the official language, shown by both CIA World Factbook and Ethnologue as the official language of Serbia. There are several others listed as regional languages and those that are spoken in specific areas, but only Serbian is listed as 'official.'

We're going to have to ask David for an updated map of Europe so we can include Kosovo.

Keep the comments coming!

3 years ago

famisamis

@VictorV Thank you for pointing out my errors with Belgium and the Netherlands. I have corrected them to include German and Frisian, respectively.

Please let me know of any other issues I can fix.

Thank you for playing!

3 years ago

famisamis

@Alfia Polish is the official language of Poland, Italian of Italy. I have included ONLY official languages. That doesn't mean there aren't other languages used widely across each country or within regions or states. I used Ethnologue and the CIA World Factbook to make the determinations. Please let me know if there is documentation elsewhere of the 'official' languages of each country.

Thank you for playing!

3 years ago

VictorV

Belgian has three official languages: not only Dutch and French, but also German
In the Netherlands we do not only speak Dutch, but Frisian is also an official language.
And I found some more incorrect things.

3 years ago

slaaty

Who knew that Austria recognized 4! official languages? I lived there for 8 weeks in 1978 and only knew of German - (maybe there were fewer then).

4 years ago

Alfia

Part of the problem is that this was created 2 years aogo.

The languages for Serbia are not current. Serbian is the only federally official language, while some of the ones mentioned in your quiz are recognized only in the Voivodina district. Albanian, while certainly spoken in areas of Serbia, is not considered official, especially now that Kosovo is its own country.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ri.html#People

4 years ago

Alfia

There are lots of problems with this set. What about Kashubian and Silensian in Poland? Sicilian and Friulian in Italy? What about Russian in Latvia (spoken by over half the population) not to mention that it is widely spoken by Russians in Ukraine and Lithuania? Basque, Romany and Turkish are also missing from various countries.

Please either stick to official languages or include all languages.

4 years ago

famisamis

Mirandese is used locally, and likely not by a large amount of the population. Nevertheless, it is listed as an official language of the country by multiple sources - CIA World Factbook and Ethnologue.

As for Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic would be more correct. However, Gaelic is an acceptable short form of the name and in the interest of character limits for the game I elected to use it instead.

Thank you for your comments and thank you for playing!

4 years ago