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Language quiz

Simon on 22 Sep 2007

Language and Quiz questions | Comments (17)

17 Responses to “Language quiz”

1. Jonathan K on 22 Sep 2007 at 6:58 pm #

   Armenian, spoken in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, and France

2. AR on 22 Sep 2007 at 7:11 pm #

   Definitely not Armenian.
   Is it Pashto, spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

3. Chris on 22 Sep 2007 at 7:38 pm #

   Tajik?

4. Jangari on 23 Sep 2007 at 2:00 am #

   I’m going to take a stab at Dari, the language of the Zoroastrians.

5. Aeetlrcreejl on 23 Sep 2007 at 4:34 am #

   Persian/Farsi, spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan?

6. Harris E. on 23 Sep 2007 at 4:42 am #

   Hmm… just to go against the trend, albanian?

7. Daydreamer on 23 Sep 2007 at 9:33 am #

   Definitely not Albanian.
   The closest I can get is that it seems to be an Iranian language, but doesn’t sound like Persian.

8. Bala on 23 Sep 2007 at 9:38 am #

   I guess its pashto

9. d.m.falk on 23 Sep 2007 at 9:50 am #

   Azeri or Georgian?

   d.m.f.

10. Daydreamer on 23 Sep 2007 at 10:12 am #

    @ d.m.falk

    You failed to notice the clue that it’s an Indo-European language which neither Azeri nor Georgian are.

11. Simon on 23 Sep 2007 at 10:13 am #

    Another clue: this language part of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages, but isn’t Persian/Farsi, Dari or Tajik.

12. Daydreamer on 23 Sep 2007 at 11:55 am #

    I finally go for Ossete.

13. renato figueiredo on 23 Sep 2007 at 12:08 pm #

    Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages also include Baluchi (Baloch), Kurdish. In this cases Balochi is spoken in Pakistan, Kurdish is spoken in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and other countries.

14. Daydreamer on 23 Sep 2007 at 12:26 pm #

    Oops, I forgot to give the second part of my answer: Ossete is spoken in the Caucasus region, i.e. in Russia.

15. Simon on 23 Sep 2007 at 1:59 pm #

    Daydreamer got it right - it’s Ossetian, which is spoken in Russia and Georgia.

16. Thomas Steinberg on 21 Nov 2007 at 9:00 pm #

    How many people speak this language, since Russian is the main tongue of the regions you mentioned?

17. Simon on 21 Nov 2007 at 9:21 pm #

    Thomas - about 500,000 people speak Ossetian.