I'd imagine that they might've gotten the help of scholars within their borders when it came to translations. Not to forget that traders were also commonly multilingual.
Fun! It was surprising how different many of these languages are from modern languages, both in classification and range.
Could you consider Manchu for Jurchen? I know it's not the exact same thing, but Wikipedia says Manchu is mostly derived from Jurchen, and I'm guessing more people are familiar with the term Manchu. I could be wrong about this, but if you don't want to change it I'd at least appreciate hearing why.
This is really fun, as it always is, with your quizzes. :) Thank you. Nominated.
There is one thing, though. Sayan-Samoyedic was not one single language, but rather a group of languages. I was trying to type Kamassian and Mator, but with no luck, and I didn't think of the name of the group. You might want to add the two languages as type-ins, as it's really very hard nowadays to identify where exactly they were spoken.
Otherwise, you worked really conscientiously, congratulations.
Thanks! I will definitely take this into account when I'm planning to revise this quiz, because despite a lot of research, there are still a large amount of mistakes here.
Could you consider Manchu for Jurchen? I know it's not the exact same thing, but Wikipedia says Manchu is mostly derived from Jurchen, and I'm guessing more people are familiar with the term Manchu. I could be wrong about this, but if you don't want to change it I'd at least appreciate hearing why.
There is one thing, though. Sayan-Samoyedic was not one single language, but rather a group of languages. I was trying to type Kamassian and Mator, but with no luck, and I didn't think of the name of the group. You might want to add the two languages as type-ins, as it's really very hard nowadays to identify where exactly they were spoken.
Otherwise, you worked really conscientiously, congratulations.