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Language quiz

7 April 2013 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions6 Comments

Language quiz

31 March 2013 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions6 Comments

Language quiz

24 March 2013 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions6 Comments

Language quiz

17 March 2013 By Simon

Your challenge this week is to identify the con-scripts on these signs, all of which appear on Omniglot, and to decipher each one. Do you also know what the original texts were on these signs? Or can you suggest amusing alternatives?

Signs with con-scripts on them

Three of the signs are in English, the other one is in Chinese.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions, Writing, fonts & typography14 Comments

Language quiz

10 March 2013 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions5 Comments

Language quiz

3 March 2013 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions13 Comments

Language quiz

24 February 2013 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions5 Comments

Language quiz

17 February 2013 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions10 Comments

Language quiz

10 February 2013 By Simon

Here is a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions19 Comments

Language quiz

3 February 2013 By Simon

Here are a few words in Shetland(ic). Do you know or can you guess what they mean?

1. hobrigdi
2. gyoppm
3. penga
4. toosk
5. brunga wheedie

If you don’t know, just make up some possible definitions.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions8 Comments

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