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Every Country in its Official/Native Language
Guess the official JetPunk name of each country – based on that country's name in its own language and script.
Answers must correspond to the yellow box
Native languages take precedent.
If there are multiple languages, it is the most spoken language
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| First submitted | November 11, 2020 |
| Times taken | 17,890 |
| Average score | 77.0% |
| Rating | 4.96 |
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The Armenian language uses the Armenian script.
I do think this is a cool idea though, good job!
However, I was a little confused by Algeria not appearing in Arabic or at least in a more traditional transliteration like al-Jazair...
بروني
That's one of the easier ones for me to find out is just probably straight up wrong, slowly working on the others though
Mauritius (my country) could be written as Moris (Mauritian Creole), however you could use Maurice or Mauritius as well. This is because Mauritius does not have an official language. But Mauritian Creole is our lingua franca, and both French and English are very widely used in our day to day life.
Nominated.
Edit: just found out Bolivia has 37 official languages, so that might be a reason why.
This beats or equals 20.1% of test takers
The average score is 158
Your high score is 139
Please use its official name written in the Latin alphabet - Bosna i Hercegovina.
The reason that maker of this quizz in previous version may put the name of the country in cyrillic alphabet is probably to make it harder to guess, not to create 'offensive political statement'. Take a chill pill. :)
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1658196/names-of-countries-in-their-native-language
I first thought the languages were chosen among the official languages or by including the number of people speaking the language as second language as I went through a bunch of African nations written in European languages.
Then I found Gujarati India, when Gujarati is neither the most popular language nor an official (national level) language in the country.
Would be nice if we could know what were the rationale for the choice.
Someone thankfully pointed that out for me in my quiz similar to this one.
Didn't get Myanmar. Not sure what this (6 boxes on my screen) was supposed to be > မြန်မာ
North America - One that might make you think for a second, but otherwise pretty foolproof
Oceania - Two or three thinkers now, but overall much like the Americas
Africa - Pretty easy for the Latin scripts, and few enough of the non-Latin scripts that you can fill in by process of elimination
Europe - Similar to Africa, but with a few Latin-script countries whose names are entirely unlike their English ones
Asia - Looooooooooooooots of random guessing
- ประเทศไทย (Prathet Thai), "Prathet" means "country" or "nation"
- เมืองไทย (Muang Thai) is commonly used in casual context, "Muang" means "city" or "town"
- ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Ratcha-anachak Thai) meaning the "Kingdom of Thailand" which is the official name
While commenting, I got curious why we use "Mueng" to refer to a country - historically, Southeast Asia often consisted of city-states and dependency, so back then a city was their entire country, hence the modern usage of "Muang" to casually refer to a country. (disclaimer, this is just a summary from what I found on the internet)
But this is not applicable to all countries, other case that I saw is using "Muang Cheen" to refer to China (the People's Republic of) or "Muang Lao" to refer to Laos (while valid, people often use just "Lao")
(Also, France is “France” in French?!)
Chad and Algeria should really be تشاد and الجزائر in Arabic although I admit Berber is co-official, Eritrea should absolutely be ኤርትራ in Tigrinya
- India should probably be in Hindi not in Gujarati
- For Gabon, you can just say "Gabon", "republique gabonaise" is the longer official name which you're not using for most other countries
- Eritrea and Algeria should probably be in their native scripts
- Arabic is not really spoken that much in the Comoros, Comorian or French would be better
What language is "Monaca"? It appears to be an error, as the country is called "Monaco" in both Italian and French, "Mu̍negu" in Monegasque, and "Mónego" in Ligurian.
The naming conventions for countries seem inconsistent. For instance, some countries are spelled out with their full official names (e.g., "République gabonaise"), while others use shorter forms (e.g., "Česko"). I believe the quiz would be improved by consistently using each country's official name throughout.
I hope these suggestions help make the quiz even better!