Match Major Indo-European Language with its Translation
Difficulty: hard.
Below is a map of several widely spoken languages which are part of the Indo-European language family. I have taken a complex sentence and translated it into 39 of those languages. Can you match each translation to its language on the map?
Not every highlighted language is clickable. Language varieties with high intelligbility have been reduced to decrease difficulty
Translated sentence: Tonight I want nothing more than to watchthe moon and the stars with you.
Translations are by Google Translate, so there is some chance of mistakes in the translations. The French, Spanish, Hindi and Nepali translations seem correct to me, and so I hope that the rest are too.
I wanted to create a complex sentence as the comparison sentence, and I chose 'moon' and 'stars' because these words are less likely to have diverged and so there is a better chance of finding shared roots between languages (unlike a more abstract concept).
I also chose to highlight all languages regardless of them being answers or not. This probably makes the quiz even more difficult, so I would appreciate feedback on this decision. I removed the tolerance/margin of error on a lot of languages when you are clicking on the map, since otherwise you could hedge answers by clicking close to them (but not on them) until you found the right one.
I am considering making a second quiz, with more or less the same languages (maybe switch out some for languages not included this time around). I am curious to make a list with verbs that are less abstract and with more foundational foot words (like hand or leg) because these roots are some of the most visually obvious signs of the relations between these languages. Also, verbs like 'want' and 'watch' vary a lot between languages, or even within a language (we watch TV, not look at it, and we can wish or long for something, some IE languages prefer the latter roots or entirely different roots altogether).
Great quiz. I didn't do great but happy with the ones I got and some educated guesses.
Honestly I found it confusing that some yellow countries were unclickable, like Norway. I thought something was broken. (Yes, I didn't read the caveat). Maybe give ones that aren't part of the quiz a different shade. Or make them wrong answers to everything (I think you can with the "jp-fail" class?), though that would make the quiz tougher. I kept clicking Norway in different places when the answer was Denmark, and I think I should either fail the question for that, or understand that it isn't part of the quiz (without reading caveats... which people rarely do.)
That is valid, quiz information should be visual and not rely on caveats. I wasn't aware of the jp-fail class, I have added it to almost all unclickable yellow countries. Consider it tough love to the quiztakers. This quiz is definitely aimed a little towards language nerds so I am not too worried about raising the difficulty somewhat.
Thank you! Was Denmark a correct answer? When Denmark is correct, then you can click within 5 pixels and get the answer correct (in order to help mobile users).
Translations are by Google Translate, so there is some chance of mistakes in the translations. The French, Spanish, Hindi and Nepali translations seem correct to me, and so I hope that the rest are too.
I wanted to create a complex sentence as the comparison sentence, and I chose 'moon' and 'stars' because these words are less likely to have diverged and so there is a better chance of finding shared roots between languages (unlike a more abstract concept).
I also chose to highlight all languages regardless of them being answers or not. This probably makes the quiz even more difficult, so I would appreciate feedback on this decision. I removed the tolerance/margin of error on a lot of languages when you are clicking on the map, since otherwise you could hedge answers by clicking close to them (but not on them) until you found the right one.
Honestly I found it confusing that some yellow countries were unclickable, like Norway. I thought something was broken. (Yes, I didn't read the caveat). Maybe give ones that aren't part of the quiz a different shade. Or make them wrong answers to everything (I think you can with the "jp-fail" class?), though that would make the quiz tougher. I kept clicking Norway in different places when the answer was Denmark, and I think I should either fail the question for that, or understand that it isn't part of the quiz (without reading caveats... which people rarely do.)
That is valid, quiz information should be visual and not rely on caveats. I wasn't aware of the jp-fail class, I have added it to almost all unclickable yellow countries. Consider it tough love to the quiztakers. This quiz is definitely aimed a little towards language nerds so I am not too worried about raising the difficulty somewhat.