NS and Language

[Sassinia]

You can't group the Indian languages in one generic sector. Hell, you can't group the North-Indian ones in one group. Indian (in this case north-indian) languages are grouped according to this:

Hindi and other North Indian Languages (Hindi, Rajasthani, Urdu, etc)
East-Indian Languages (Assamese, Bengali, Orissan, etc.)
Marathi and Others (Marathi, etc.)
West Indian (Gujarati, etc.)
Punjabi (Punjabi and similar dialects)

[Horusland]

You can't group the Indian languages in one generic sector. Hell, you can't group the North-Indian ones in one group. Indian (in this case north-indian) languages are grouped according to this:

Hindi and other North Indian Languages (Hindi, Rajasthani, Urdu, etc)
East-Indian Languages (Assamese, Bengali, Orissan, etc.)
Marathi and Others (Marathi, etc.)
West Indian (Gujarati, etc.)
Punjabi (Punjabi and similar dialects)

Nope. We can't have 5 poll options for all those. We can only have 10 poll options in total.
Do all these have a common name, if not Indian?

[Nationalist State of Knox]

Japanese and Korean shouldn't be grouped together.

They belong to the same linguistic group ...French and Romanian are pretty different languages but I still grouped them together.

Korean is a language isolate.

[Camelza]

Japanese and Korean shouldn't be grouped together.

We can group Eastern Asian languages together, Merge the two with Chinese languages, and split another option in two.
Also, Icelandic should be put in the German option. Iceland is not a part of Scandinavia.

It is a member of the Northern Germanic Languages though, aka: Scandinavian

[New Waterford]

I can speak French and German on an intermediate level and I have bits and bobs of Irish vocabulary (Dia duit, Conas atá tú etc).

[Immoren]

Baltic? Latvian and Lithuanian aren't part of Uralic languages.

You can't put all of those together in one option without a name. Do all these have a common name?

Baltic languages are part of Balto-Slavic language group.

[Horusland]

They belong to the same linguistic group ...French and Romanian are pretty different languages but I still grouped them together.

Korean is a language isolate.

East Asian, dude, East Asian. That would include: Chinese Languages, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese.

[The Blaatschapen]

Gibberish.

Don't insult my favorite language!

That's Finnish, btw.

Joulupukki is happy with that.

[Sassinia]

You can't group the Indian languages in one generic sector. Hell, you can't group the North-Indian ones in one group. Indian (in this case north-indian) languages are grouped according to this:

Hindi and other North Indian Languages (Hindi, Rajasthani, Urdu, etc)
East-Indian Languages (Assamese, Bengali, Orissan, etc.)
Marathi and Others (Marathi, etc.)
West Indian (Gujarati, etc.)
Punjabi (Punjabi and similar dialects)

Nope. We can't have 5 poll options for all those. We can only have 10 poll options in total.
Do all these have a common name, if not Indian?

Nope. Although you can group them according to their scripts:
Devanagari
Bengali-Assamese
Punjabi
That Arabic-like script (I'm not Pakistani so i don't know the name)

[Horusland]

Nope. We can't have 5 poll options for all those. We can only have 10 poll options in total.
Do all these have a common name, if not Indian?

Nope. Although you can group them according to their scripts:
Devanagari
Bengali-Assamese
Punjabi
That Arabic-like script (I'm not Pakistani so i don't know the name)

Well, then, it's too bad. NS won't let us put all of them there, and seeing as there's only one person who chose any one of them on this version, there's no use even doing that.

So, we'll have to put all of them in ''Other Indo-European languages''

[Camelza]

They belong to the same linguistic group ...French and Romanian are pretty different languages but I still grouped them together.

Korean is a language isolate.

I was pretty sure they were related.

[Horusland]

Don't insult my favorite language!

That's Finnish, btw.

Joulupukki is happy with that.

I don't believe in Joulupukki anymore. Sorry.
:3

[Sassinia]

Also, for those who don't know, Assam is pronounced natively as Ashaam. There's no "s" sound in Bengali-Assamese, unless in special cases (Anthostosho can be used for the s sound).

[The Blaatschapen]

Joulupukki is happy with that.

I don't believe in Joulupukki anymore. Sorry.
:3

Perkele!

[Yorkopolis]

Awful poll you got there, let's just bring up:

"Iberian languages" doesn't exist and should instead, like Italian, Latin, etc. because they're all Romance languages, so instead create a poll option for that.

Yiddish is a Germanic language, Greek is Hellenic, Turkish is Turkic, Romanian is Romance, and Russian, Polish, Czech, and name the lot, are all Slavic.

Just saying.

But either way, I speak Dutch - awful language - English, German at a basic level, and some phrases of languages like Russian, Czech, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, etc.

[Horusland]

I looked on Wikipedia. Some consider Korean an Altaic language, along with Turkic and Mongolian, and others.
Some. And others consider it isolate.

[Souseiseki]

>japanese and korean

oh god lol

fuck it i can rant about protons and neturons in japanese im clicking the japanese option

I'm envious.

don't be the trade off is that i can hardly say hello

Korean is a language isolate.

East Asian, dude, East Asian. That would include: Chinese Languages, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese.

wait weren't you one of the people complaining about grouping languages by geography earlier?

[Nationalist State of Knox]

Korean is a language isolate.

I was pretty sure they were related.

Most historical linguists classify Korean as a language isolate while a few consider it to be in the controversial Altaic language family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language

[Horusland]

Awful poll you got there, let's just bring up:

"Iberian languages" doesn't exist and should instead, like Italian, Latin, etc. because they're all Romance languages, so instead create a poll option for that.

Yiddish is a Germanic language, Greek is Hellenic, Turkish is Turkic, Romanian is Romance, and Russian, Polish, Czech, and name the lot, are all Slavic.

Just saying.

But either way, I speak Dutch - awful language - English, German at a basic level, and some phrases of languages like Russian, Czech, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, etc.

We're solving the problem right now, in the discussion.
Camelza has a great re-listing of the languages, in groups.

[Immoren]

What is the difference between Saami, Finnish, and Karelian? Are they very close, like Dutch and German?

They are related enough that I recognize some familiarity, but separate enough that I don't understand Saami at all and Karelian language only partially.

[Horusland]

I was pretty sure they were related.

Most historical linguists classify Korean as a language isolate while a few consider it to be in the controversial Altaic language family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language

Exactly. Then, you click on ''Altaic languages''. Korean and Japanese are considered by SOME to be Altaic. Others consider it isolate.

[Sassinia]

Awful poll you got there, let's just bring up:

"Iberian languages" doesn't exist and should instead, like Italian, Latin, etc. because they're all Romance languages, so instead create a poll option for that.

Yiddish is a Germanic language, Greek is Hellenic, Turkish is Turkic, Romanian is Romance, and Russian, Polish, Czech, and name the lot, are all Slavic.

Just saying.

But either way, I speak Dutch - awful language - English, German at a basic level, and some phrases of languages like Russian, Czech, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, etc.

We're solving the problem right now, in the discussion.
Camelza has a great re-listing of the languages, in groups.

I still would like for him to mention Bengali. It has a larger native population.

[Camelza]

I was pretty sure they were related.

Most historical linguists classify Korean as a language isolate while a few consider it to be in the controversial Altaic language family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language

I stand corrected.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

I'm envious.

don't be the trade off is that i can hardly say hello

Don't you know, like, 800 kanji?

[Horusland]

What is the difference between Saami, Finnish, and Karelian? Are they very close, like Dutch and German?

They are related enough that I recognize some familiarity, but separate enough that I don't understand Saami at all and Karelian language only partially.

Are Saami and Karelian closer to other languages than Finnish?