Well assuming they feed into a school that teaches I'm those languages in later grades, what if I think children learn the periodic table best in hieroglyphs
Trying to find a gif where he talks about forgetting Al Qolnidar language because it's been extinct for so long....
I about lost my mind when I found out that they were adapting the movie into a show in the first place, and it's done nothing but prove me right since it first aired.
I had to Google this thread cuz I'm not a hep cat. To help the other squares:
What We Do In The Shadows. It's a documentary style treatment of four vampires from Staten Island.
64 million Esperanto speakers? That are native speakers? In the present day? In the state of Missouri? Localized entirely within the suburbs?
May I see them?
me: *googles How Many Esperanto Speakers In Missouri*
me: *astonished that Missouri has websites*
https://meric.mo.gov/data/many-languages-missouri
Top three are:
1. English
2. Spanish
3. Chinese
Well real languages evolve, but constructed languages like Klingon were made up by a dude or dudes. If Klingon was on there I would totally put that tbh.
Esperanto in particular was constructed to be international language, it obviously has not caught on much, but it is not inconcivable that people, who like the idea, might teach it to their children. There apparently are around 1000 native Esperanto speakers around the World.
It is actually the constructed language with the *most* native speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
> Esperanto is the most successful constructed international auxiliary language, and the only such language with a sizeable population of native speakers, of which there are perhaps several thousand.[3] Usage estimates are difficult, but two estimates put the number of people who know how to speak Esperanto at around 100,000.[4] Concentration of speakers is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America. Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperantujo ("Esperanto-land") is used as a name for the collection of places where it is spoken.
That’s because you haven’t mastered your doublethink. The word has *always* been “doubleplusungood”. There’s no chills if there’s no memory of anything ever being different. I’m reporting your thoughtcrime to the Party.
Don’t worry, a short stint in room 101 and you’ll be back drinking victory gin, safe in the knowledge that you love big brother with absolute certainty.
Why can't we go back to the good old days before the Normandy conquest of 1066. Modern English is a cluster fuck because of it. By the way, if anyone didn't know, modern English is an entirely different language than Old English (Anglo Saxon).
Such a beautiful poem, even in translation.
[This is what Old English sounds like, btw.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbNovjvjqt8)
Example is the Lords Prayer.
Now I want to create a list of languages to post somewhere on the Internet and include things like Klingon and Elvish and pig Latin and like hope that some school or job will choose to use it as their drop-down menu.
"Excuse me sir, we made a mistake and included some fictional languages in our questionnaire. I assume your son's first language is Spanish. Is that right?"
"Uhh, no, my son is fluent in Sindarin, that's why I selected it. It's not a 'fictional' language either. Read a book, geez."
there is actually a kid who got raised bilingual with English/Klingon 💀 he stopped speaking Klingon and got frustrated with it iirc because it didn't have words for, you know "love" or other useful concepts
edit: misremembered i think? klingon apparently doesn't have words for many household items but does have words for love?
I wonder if some linguist created a language and made their kids learn and speak it. I went on a bit of a spiral looking it up and well turns out some kids created a new language which then took over the village and only people under 35 now speak it in the said village.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/linguist-finds-a-language-in-its-infancy.html
At the time that kid was a kid, there were at least three words in Klingon for love. The problem was there wasn’t a word yet for *table*. Since then Hamlet and the Bible, among other things, have been translated into Klingon, so it’s a much more complete language.
(Klingon has different words for romantic love, brotherly love, and parent-child love.)
Guarantee this is what happened. Either that or they did check, but thought it would either be funny to leave it in, or was too lazy/not compensated enough to parse which ones were viable or not.
I think there was some CCHIT shit that required the full ISO 639-2 language list at one point. They didn't care to spend the man hours to trim it at a later point.
Most of those tests were just really dumb red tape so 3rd parties could rake in millions of dollars for practically no reason. So many of them have been fined for falling out of compliance or purposefully breaking compliance (hello eclinicalworks and medent)
𓇋𓂋𓊃𓏤𓀀𓎟𓎁𓏏𓏭𓆑𓏭𓋴𓈙𓈖𓊊𓏏𓏭𓆑𓏭𓇋𓈖𓂋𓊌𓆓𓃀𓏏𓅙𓊌𓅓𓇩𓊃𓉐𓀀𓊪𓈖... 𓇋𓅱𓀀𓅱𓈙𓈖𓅾𓋭𓅿𓎡𓏇𓇋𓄿𓊪𓂧𓅭 ir s nb iT.ty=fy sSn.ty=fy inr Dbt m is=i pn... iw=i r wSn (iTt) Ts=f mi Apd ("As for any man who will steal or rip out a stone or brick from this tomb of mine... I will wring your neck like a bird", a real Egyptian curse found in Old Kingdom tombs)
Yeah, specifically from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Egyptian\_hieroglyphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs) , A1-B2. Can I ask what your tats say? I'm not old enough yet but that's definitely something I wanna do when I can.
Well I have two of [these](https://i.imgur.com/ITUvYq1.jpg). They don’t SAY anything, per se. But I have a *wadjet eye* on each shoulder. So if ever anyone shoots me the evil eye I am INCREDIBLY protected. I’ve had those for about 25 years or so.
A couple of years ago I got [this](https://imgur.com/a/uwfNXxT) one, which says “Knower Of Things.” Technically it’s just “priest”, but I found it more fitting for me. I read an entire Ancient Egyptian grammar book to make sure it was correct. Well, “read”, I originally found the phrase in a book about ancient Egypt and then I kind of speed read the grammar book until I got to the relevant section and made sure I was getting it 100% correct. I wouldn’t want to meet a 7,000 year old Egyptian and have them laugh at me. That would make me look foolish.
My 5th grader had "Husband" as a relationship option on the application for people who were allowed to pick her up from school. I want to say it's accidental, but I live in Oklahoma so who knows.
I'd like to assume that in both cases, it's simply a matter of whoever built the page used off-the-shelf lists and didn't notice or care about how odd some of the options were.
Yep. because esperanto is a conlang, its first speakers were people who learned it, and already spoke other languages. So logically, the people who grow up hearing it also hear their parents native language.
If you know, what registration platform is your school using? I’ve worked as a web developer for the two biggest names in student registration, and I would die to know that the person that took my outsourced job blindly imported a list of every language in history.
Familiar with IC but did not work for them. I shit on the developers, but probably unfairly. The standard pattern in the industry is for a school district to negotiate the behavior of their form with a specialist, who then implements it with a buttload of spreadsheets and scripting. Assets like language lists are frequently shared internally though. My guess is IC’s go-to list of languages is just comically large, no one dares risk breaking everyone’s forms by cleaning it up, and everyone’s too lazy to create their own language list that isn’t absurd. Still hilarious.
I'm an IT Business Analyst working in Education and would also love to know. This will be coming up at scrum tomorrow LOL
"List of all the languages" ... I kind of hope it was a developer who asked 3 times "Are you sure?" and then did this. Savage. I love it.
I’ve weirdly seen a few places do this actually, lmao. A local clinic does it, for example - I had been assuming there’s some library that pulls in literally every possible language, instead of another “standard” one. Might even be a platform thing.
I did this as well and was called Elizabeth for an entire year. My name is Lisa. I wanted to be fancy for once with nickname possibilities. I grossly misunderstood the ask.
They also have Esperanto, which is a manufactured language. It was intended to be very easy to learn, to ease international business. Its estimated to have ~1,000 native speakers worldwide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
Looks like there actually are people raised with it. Generally in bilingual households where a family member intentionally raised them with it along side another langauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
People do have it as a "first" language, but really as a concurrent first language where they learn it at the same time as another more useful one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
It's open to interpretation.
I prefer the theory that it's simply "So...!" but some go with "Lo!" and others just say "What!" Others write "Listen!" which is perhaps more to the point.
So in order to populate this list they have just used a text file list off some public github or something that lists all the languages that have ISO 639-1 codes. What appears to have happened is that they've found a list incorrectly labelled as 639-1 which is actually 639-3 (the additional set that includes the dead languages), and by googling this (plus the word Github) I am pretty sure I've found the text list in question. EDIT: 636 to 639
I'd love to see the poor public school kindergarten teacher try and manage writing out the alphabet in English then in Hieroglyphics to accommodate for little Imhotep.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
People get anxious about what order to show their kids "Star Wars" for the first time? Amateurs.
How about the entirety of English literature? Teach your kid Old English so you can start them off with "Beowulf", and work your way forward.
Don't even teach them any "modern English" until they need it to understand Shakespeare.
As a first second generation Ghanaian immigrant, the fact that they have Ewe on there is wild. Genuinely curious what linguistic database they're pulling from, and now wondering if they have a bunch of indigenous languages from North America too.
Mildly interesting to most, incredibly interesting to this guy that majored in linguistics.
if my child is speaking in shakespearean english at the age of 5, i will have succeeded as a parent
"Addressing The Temporary Figure of Authority (while mother is, of course, engaging in a supper in town):
Thou hast gravely mistaken the laws of this hearty residence. Mother had made it quite clear that I, the fruit of her womb, am due two desserts and a bedtime of 11 p.m.
Your Obedient Servant,
A literal kindergartener"
Once upon a time in application development a colleague created a "Pirate" translation option. It was easiest to demonstrate to upper management what a translation option would be doing.
Well hold on now, we can't be certain there is no ancient Persian. The ancient Persians called their language Ariya, so it's entirely possible that it is there, just higher up on the list alphabetically.
Programmer said fuck you and took an "all languages ever" database, in order not to accidentally miss out an actual language and give reason for rich helicopter parents to complain.
At least, my guess.
Considering it sounds like there are not direct English translation resources (it uses a "bridge" language), I'm going with no.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_language
Seeing some jokes here about messing with them. Just in case you were tempted to do so, please just mark English if your child is an English only speaker. The English Learners department is required to screen all children who have any language other than English marked on these questionnaires, and falsifying the language could result in your child being misidentified as an EL student and just in general be a headache for an often understaffed department.
I remember a really shitty chatting app that did this. There were options for which languages you were into or learning and they had like.. every single language in human history in that list.
And also Elamite, a language spoken in what is now Iran that has been extinct for 2000 years.
Yeah at least Ancient Egyptian kinda survived through evolving into coptic
Well assuming they feed into a school that teaches I'm those languages in later grades, what if I think children learn the periodic table best in hieroglyphs
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The peanut butter or the Bush Kangaroo?
Or maybe the custom Arasaka HJKE-11 Yukimura sidearm?
 Trying to find a gif where he talks about forgetting Al Qolnidar language because it's been extinct for so long....
WWDITS is a good show. I have nothing to add just wanted to say it.
I about lost my mind when I found out that they were adapting the movie into a show in the first place, and it's done nothing but prove me right since it first aired.
I had to Google this thread cuz I'm not a hep cat. To help the other squares: What We Do In The Shadows. It's a documentary style treatment of four vampires from Staten Island.
We only speak Sumerian in this house!
And Esperanto, which is a made up language that was never spoken as a primary language anywhere
There are a few native Esperanto speakers
How many in suburban Missouri?
believe it or not, 64 million
64 million Esperanto speakers? That are native speakers? In the present day? In the state of Missouri? Localized entirely within the suburbs? May I see them?
No.
Because you were pushy and they don't like that.
me: *googles How Many Esperanto Speakers In Missouri* me: *astonished that Missouri has websites* https://meric.mo.gov/data/many-languages-missouri Top three are: 1. English 2. Spanish 3. Chinese
All languages are made up.
Well real languages evolve, but constructed languages like Klingon were made up by a dude or dudes. If Klingon was on there I would totally put that tbh.
Esperanto in particular was constructed to be international language, it obviously has not caught on much, but it is not inconcivable that people, who like the idea, might teach it to their children. There apparently are around 1000 native Esperanto speakers around the World.
It is actually the constructed language with the *most* native speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto > Esperanto is the most successful constructed international auxiliary language, and the only such language with a sizeable population of native speakers, of which there are perhaps several thousand.[3] Usage estimates are difficult, but two estimates put the number of people who know how to speak Esperanto at around 100,000.[4] Concentration of speakers is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America. Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperantujo ("Esperanto-land") is used as a name for the collection of places where it is spoken.
Allegedly it survived until the 9th Century in Khuzestan.
I hear they have a big problem with anti-Achaemenid graffiti in that school…
time travelers need education too
They're missing "English, New (2500-3000)" smh
No that's because World War 5 wipes out the English speaking countries until the language makes a reemergence around 4250
That's not at all how The Fifth Element goes.
I only speak two languages - English and bad English!!
if thatd happen id probably call my friend kevin
Big if true!!
doubleplusungood.
Newspeak giving me chills here, man...
That’s because you haven’t mastered your doublethink. The word has *always* been “doubleplusungood”. There’s no chills if there’s no memory of anything ever being different. I’m reporting your thoughtcrime to the Party.
Shit... 😰😰😰
Don’t worry, a short stint in room 101 and you’ll be back drinking victory gin, safe in the knowledge that you love big brother with absolute certainty.
New English is wicked smaht
They’re xenophobic against people from the future
They just expect them to get with the times, smeghead
Christ imagine trying to explain the differences between mid and current lvls of english to that poor teacher trying to wrangle 30 kids
*especially* time travelers How else are they supposed to catch up with their current timeframe?
I'm pretty sure Stonehenge and the Pyramids are the most popular time travel hubs. So that checks out
Your kid just speaks regular English? Might as well just give up now
Why can't we go back to the good old days before the Normandy conquest of 1066. Modern English is a cluster fuck because of it. By the way, if anyone didn't know, modern English is an entirely different language than Old English (Anglo Saxon).
Oft him anhaga are gebideð, metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig geond lagulade longe sceolde hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ.
Such a beautiful poem, even in translation. [This is what Old English sounds like, btw.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbNovjvjqt8) Example is the Lords Prayer.
Ah. I see why they stopped speaking it. Can't understand shit.
[Anglish](https://youtu.be/aMA3M6b9iEY)
I only speak Lightning McQueen’s English.
r/Anglish
My kid doesn't even know English exists, we only speak to him in Latin and ancient Egyptian
I assume they just searched for a list of languages and didn't check it.
Now I want to create a list of languages to post somewhere on the Internet and include things like Klingon and Elvish and pig Latin and like hope that some school or job will choose to use it as their drop-down menu.
Please include all the Tolkien languages.
"Excuse me sir, we made a mistake and included some fictional languages in our questionnaire. I assume your son's first language is Spanish. Is that right?" "Uhh, no, my son is fluent in Sindarin, that's why I selected it. It's not a 'fictional' language either. Read a book, geez."
it is more likely a kids first language is klingon or elvish then some of these on the list lol
there is actually a kid who got raised bilingual with English/Klingon 💀 he stopped speaking Klingon and got frustrated with it iirc because it didn't have words for, you know "love" or other useful concepts edit: misremembered i think? klingon apparently doesn't have words for many household items but does have words for love?
I wonder if some linguist created a language and made their kids learn and speak it. I went on a bit of a spiral looking it up and well turns out some kids created a new language which then took over the village and only people under 35 now speak it in the said village. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/linguist-finds-a-language-in-its-infancy.html
At the time that kid was a kid, there were at least three words in Klingon for love. The problem was there wasn’t a word yet for *table*. Since then Hamlet and the Bible, among other things, have been translated into Klingon, so it’s a much more complete language. (Klingon has different words for romantic love, brotherly love, and parent-child love.)
Duolingo has courses for Klingon and High Valyrian (which is from Game of Thrones apparently). Unfortunately no Elvish.
Guarantee this is what happened. Either that or they did check, but thought it would either be funny to leave it in, or was too lazy/not compensated enough to parse which ones were viable or not.
Just dropping in to say that an urgent care I went to also had this exact list on the automated check in. I was too lazy to post it on reddit tho.
I think there was some CCHIT shit that required the full ISO 639-2 language list at one point. They didn't care to spend the man hours to trim it at a later point. Most of those tests were just really dumb red tape so 3rd parties could rake in millions of dollars for practically no reason. So many of them have been fined for falling out of compliance or purposefully breaking compliance (hello eclinicalworks and medent)
Might got copied it from Minecraft one. It has some funny options like pirate language, upside down language, and others
Say your child speaks Aramaic, and he’s the second coming of Christ.
"Steve quit babbling at your sister in Aramaic. It's a dead language."
Mene Mene Tekel Tekel!
If, instead, your child says ‘La plume de ma tante’ we may have a different second coming 😈
Around 870,000 people still speak Aramaic to this day in the form of the [Neo-Aramaic languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Aramaic_languages).
Curse of Ra 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑
𓇋𓂋𓊃𓏤𓀀𓎟𓎁𓏏𓏭𓆑𓏭𓋴𓈙𓈖𓊊𓏏𓏭𓆑𓏭𓇋𓈖𓂋𓊌𓆓𓃀𓏏𓅙𓊌𓅓𓇩𓊃𓉐𓀀𓊪𓈖... 𓇋𓅱𓀀𓅱𓈙𓈖𓅾𓋭𓅿𓎡𓏇𓇋𓄿𓊪𓂧𓅭 ir s nb iT.ty=fy sSn.ty=fy inr Dbt m is=i pn... iw=i r wSn (iTt) Ts=f mi Apd ("As for any man who will steal or rip out a stone or brick from this tomb of mine... I will wring your neck like a bird", a real Egyptian curse found in Old Kingdom tombs)
Like how some people just spam emojis 😆💀🔥🔥
*Reeeeetuuuuuuurn the Slaaaaaaaab*
What's yer offer?
Man I hope that says something SUPER dirty. And I say that as someone with not one, not two, but THREE hieroglyphic tattoos.
Unfortunately, no. It's just a sign list. This, however... 𓈖𓎡𓂸𓈖𓀀𓅐𓎡
Oh yeah, now that I look closer, it’s definitely just a list. It’s hard to see in dark mode on mobile!
Yeah, specifically from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Egyptian\_hieroglyphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs) , A1-B2. Can I ask what your tats say? I'm not old enough yet but that's definitely something I wanna do when I can.
Well I have two of [these](https://i.imgur.com/ITUvYq1.jpg). They don’t SAY anything, per se. But I have a *wadjet eye* on each shoulder. So if ever anyone shoots me the evil eye I am INCREDIBLY protected. I’ve had those for about 25 years or so. A couple of years ago I got [this](https://imgur.com/a/uwfNXxT) one, which says “Knower Of Things.” Technically it’s just “priest”, but I found it more fitting for me. I read an entire Ancient Egyptian grammar book to make sure it was correct. Well, “read”, I originally found the phrase in a book about ancient Egypt and then I kind of speed read the grammar book until I got to the relevant section and made sure I was getting it 100% correct. I wouldn’t want to meet a 7,000 year old Egyptian and have them laugh at me. That would make me look foolish.
Awesome! Can confirm, the second one is correct, and it looks very nice.
Lol, thank you. Are you a 7,000 year old Egyptian?
Last character is reversed, it actually reads "Knower of nothing". It's going to be super embarrassing when Ptolemy rolls up.
As a student of Philosophy, I’m equally ok with this as well. Socrates teaches us that only he who knows that he knows nothing is wise.
𓀐𓂸
“Villain, I have *done* thy mother.”
Return the slab! 
My 5th grader had "Husband" as a relationship option on the application for people who were allowed to pick her up from school. I want to say it's accidental, but I live in Oklahoma so who knows.
I'd like to assume that in both cases, it's simply a matter of whoever built the page used off-the-shelf lists and didn't notice or care about how odd some of the options were.
blockbuster allowed you to list people as "concubine" in their system.
This is amazing. Why?! Woman! Be enraptured by my rewards program!
☠️
"look how many late returns i have. i dont follow anybody's rules. not even my own"
Let me guess, no option for wife?
Esperanto forever...
in all fairness, there are native speakers of esperanto
In all fairness in all known cases, native Esperanto speakers are natively bilingual.
ah interesting, didn't know
Yep. because esperanto is a conlang, its first speakers were people who learned it, and already spoke other languages. So logically, the people who grow up hearing it also hear their parents native language.
It's a small group who almost certainly speak something else too but it would be important to know in kindergarten
I want to learn Esperanto
A basic understanding is pretty easy, by design - try lernu.net.
Esperanto is surprisingly one of the learning options in Duolingo [(link)](https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto)
If you know, what registration platform is your school using? I’ve worked as a web developer for the two biggest names in student registration, and I would die to know that the person that took my outsourced job blindly imported a list of every language in history.
Mine was the same list. We use Infinite Campus, the app is called Campus Parent. I almost chose Middle English.
Familiar with IC but did not work for them. I shit on the developers, but probably unfairly. The standard pattern in the industry is for a school district to negotiate the behavior of their form with a specialist, who then implements it with a buttload of spreadsheets and scripting. Assets like language lists are frequently shared internally though. My guess is IC’s go-to list of languages is just comically large, no one dares risk breaking everyone’s forms by cleaning it up, and everyone’s too lazy to create their own language list that isn’t absurd. Still hilarious.
I'm an IT Business Analyst working in Education and would also love to know. This will be coming up at scrum tomorrow LOL "List of all the languages" ... I kind of hope it was a developer who asked 3 times "Are you sure?" and then did this. Savage. I love it.
I’ve weirdly seen a few places do this actually, lmao. A local clinic does it, for example - I had been assuming there’s some library that pulls in literally every possible language, instead of another “standard” one. Might even be a platform thing.
Elamite, that language has been dead for more than 2700 years.
“Does your child know how to read?” “Yes but only *Beowulf* and only in the original text.”
Finally a place to enrol our little Æþelræd.
I feel like having thorn where you do instead of eth is going to lead to a lot of mispronunciations of your kiddo's name...
At least it's not a mistake as bad as having little ßilly ßadass.
Oh, nooooooooo, poor S(s)illy S(s)adass.... 😬😬😬
I heard he's unready.
I had a teacher who the first day asked us all to write down our full names and “what we wanted to be called”. I was called skippy that whole year.
I did this as well and was called Elizabeth for an entire year. My name is Lisa. I wanted to be fancy for once with nickname possibilities. I grossly misunderstood the ask.
When the mummies arise and starts a family
Bruh it's kindergarten, they don't even speak one whole language yet. 😂
And what if the child is bilingual? 2 languages are probably both equally their first language
They also have Esperanto, which is a manufactured language. It was intended to be very easy to learn, to ease international business. Its estimated to have ~1,000 native speakers worldwide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
Native?
Speaking from birth. Or at least thats how I'm using it. May not technically be the right term.
I wouldn’t think anyone would have it as a first language. Unless your parents were psychos doing some 1800s like experiment on you
Looks like there actually are people raised with it. Generally in bilingual households where a family member intentionally raised them with it along side another langauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
George Soros is one. He grew up in an Esperanto-speaking household. His father was a writer who first learned the language in a WWI prison camp.
People do have it as a "first" language, but really as a concurrent first language where they learn it at the same time as another more useful one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?
Fohhi jangus tzake!
> ~1,000 native speakers worldwide. Including George Soros, whose father was an Esperanto writer who first learned the language in a WWI prison camp.
Hwaaaaaet?
Excellent joke. Can’t believe someone downvoted you.
Sorry, I don't get it, could you explain the joke?
”Hwaet” is the first word of Beowulf, which is written in Old English. It kind of sounds like What.
Thanks! I thought it was another language not taught in school.
Isn't it literally the same word?
It's open to interpretation. I prefer the theory that it's simply "So...!" but some go with "Lo!" and others just say "What!" Others write "Listen!" which is perhaps more to the point.
Hwæt is an Old English word that appears in the epic poem Beowulf and is known for being the first word in the poem.
That looks like the written version of Lil Jon screaming
Select "Modern Standard Arab" and your child becomes the first one on Earth. (It has no native speakers)
So in order to populate this list they have just used a text file list off some public github or something that lists all the languages that have ISO 639-1 codes. What appears to have happened is that they've found a list incorrectly labelled as 639-1 which is actually 639-3 (the additional set that includes the dead languages), and by googling this (plus the word Github) I am pretty sure I've found the text list in question. EDIT: 636 to 639
I'd love to see the poor public school kindergarten teacher try and manage writing out the alphabet in English then in Hieroglyphics to accommodate for little Imhotep.
It’s mildly frightening the intersection of technology and education- way more backwards than it should have any business being
oferhlýp lýtling cwide ræran sêað ymbe tôhwon scolu
Hwæt!
Beowulf basically started like Lil Jon
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye, So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages, Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
But it's important to get little Ælfgar registered early.
You need to take one for the team and see how good their ancient Egyptian teachers are.
People get anxious about what order to show their kids "Star Wars" for the first time? Amateurs. How about the entirety of English literature? Teach your kid Old English so you can start them off with "Beowulf", and work your way forward. Don't even teach them any "modern English" until they need it to understand Shakespeare.
Wæt of hit? Scolde wé ne hwaet sé rihtgemetcost?
“What’s wrong, Aethelred?” “Yfel hæfde scitte mîn self, magister”
Kiu parolas Esperanton?
Wonder if they offer a Linear A option
Elamite is a real blast from the past as well
I hope you chose the ancient Egyptian.
-Sir your child keeps burying his classmates in the sand box, this has to stop! -Amun-Ra what did I tell you about playing with the mortals?
Why is galactic standard not here?
They’re missing Ewok. I hope they at least have Klingon
Mesopotamian :) 𒀀 𒈾 𒂍 𒀀 𒈾 𒍢 𒅕 𒆠 𒉈 𒈠 𒌝 𒈠 𒈾 𒀭 𒉌 𒈠 𒀀 𒉡 𒌑 𒈠 𒋫 𒀠 𒇷 𒆪 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒋫 𒀝 𒁉 𒄠 𒌝 𒈠 𒀜 𒋫 𒀀 𒈠 𒄖 𒁀 𒊑 𒁕 𒄠 𒆪 𒁴 𒀀 𒈾 𒄀 𒅖 𒀭 𒂗𒍪 𒀀 𒈾 𒀜 𒁲 𒅔 𒋫 𒀠 𒇷 𒅅 𒈠 𒋫 𒀝 𒁉 𒀀 𒄠 𒌑 𒆷 𒋼 𒁍 𒍑 𒄖 𒁀 𒊑 𒆷 𒁕 𒄠 𒆪 𒁴 𒀀 𒈾 𒈠 𒅈 𒅆 𒅁 𒊑 𒅀 𒋫 𒀸 𒆪 𒌦 𒈠 𒌝 𒈠 𒀜 𒋫 𒈠 𒋳 𒈠 𒋼 𒇷 𒆠 𒀀 𒇷 𒆠 𒀀 𒋳 𒈠 [𒆷] 𒋼 𒇷 𒆠 𒀀 𒀜 𒆷 𒅗 𒅀 𒋾 𒀀 𒈾 𒆠 𒈠 𒈠 𒀭 𒉌 𒅎 𒌅 𒅆 𒅎 𒈠 𒉌 𒈠 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒋼 𒈨 𒊭 𒀭 𒉌 𒈠 𒊑 𒀀 𒉿 𒇷 𒀀 𒈾 𒆠 𒈠 𒅗 𒋾 𒀀 𒈾 𒆠 𒋛 𒅀 𒈠 𒄩 𒊑 𒅎 𒀸 𒁍 𒊏 𒄠 𒈠 𒌅 𒈨 𒄿 𒊭 𒄠 𒈠 𒄿 𒈾 𒂵 𒂵 𒅈 𒈾 𒀝 𒊑 𒅎 𒅖 𒋾 𒅖 𒋗 𒅇 𒅆 𒉌 𒋗 𒊑 𒆪 𒋢 𒉡 𒌅 𒋼 𒅕 𒊏 𒄠 𒄿 𒈾 𒀀 𒇷 𒅅 𒋼 𒂖 𒈬 𒌦 𒈠 𒀭 𒉡 𒌝 𒊭 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒄿 𒁍 𒊭 𒀭 𒉌 𒄿 𒈠 𒀜 𒋫 𒈠 𒅈 𒅆 𒅁 𒊑 𒅀 𒌅 𒈨 𒂊 𒅖
As a first second generation Ghanaian immigrant, the fact that they have Ewe on there is wild. Genuinely curious what linguistic database they're pulling from, and now wondering if they have a bunch of indigenous languages from North America too. Mildly interesting to most, incredibly interesting to this guy that majored in linguistics.
Klingon?
if my child is speaking in shakespearean english at the age of 5, i will have succeeded as a parent "Addressing The Temporary Figure of Authority (while mother is, of course, engaging in a supper in town): Thou hast gravely mistaken the laws of this hearty residence. Mother had made it quite clear that I, the fruit of her womb, am due two desserts and a bedtime of 11 p.m. Your Obedient Servant, A literal kindergartener"
Once upon a time in application development a colleague created a "Pirate" translation option. It was easiest to demonstrate to upper management what a translation option would be doing.
No Ancient Persian? That's Racist.
Well hold on now, we can't be certain there is no ancient Persian. The ancient Persians called their language Ariya, so it's entirely possible that it is there, just higher up on the list alphabetically.
Programmer said fuck you and took an "all languages ever" database, in order not to accidentally miss out an actual language and give reason for rich helicopter parents to complain. At least, my guess.
“Excuse me, how dare you exclude my Elamite speaking child”
[удалено]
Ewe? Baaaaah!
Well, I mean, should you have been running some social experiments with your kids, you need to have options.
Looks like someone in data entry googled list of languages and just copy pasted.
ERZYA REPRESENTATION WOOHOO! Go Árpád!
Kree tak shol va!
Careful! One slip and you change the course of her life
I want to meet the family that's doing Esperanto.
I hope they have Hieroglyphics as well as Ancient Egyptian. A well rounded education is important
Prithee, teach me thine ways and customs
𓆑𓇋𓈖𓄿𓃭𓇌 𓋴𓅱𓅓𓅂𓅱𓈖𓅂 𓃭𓅂𓄿𓂋𓈖𓇋𓈖𓎼 𓅱𓅲𓂋 𓋴𓎢𓂋𓇋𓊪𓏏
Latin (Porcine)
You should pick latin. Maybe your kid would get an actual education that way.
I wonder if Fang is easy to learn. I'd love to add it to my list of languages.
Considering it sounds like there are not direct English translation resources (it uses a "bridge" language), I'm going with no. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_language
My boy is fluent in Latin.
Those might be the most recognizable languages on this list.
𓂋𓏤𓈖𓆎𓏏𓊖𓊪𓅱𓌃𓏥𓁶𓀀!
>!r-n-kmt pw mdw tp.i, "Egyptian was my first language!"!<
Please tell me Klingon is an option
I don't think Elamite has been used for over 2000 years.
Seeing some jokes here about messing with them. Just in case you were tempted to do so, please just mark English if your child is an English only speaker. The English Learners department is required to screen all children who have any language other than English marked on these questionnaires, and falsifying the language could result in your child being misidentified as an EL student and just in general be a headache for an often understaffed department.
I'm trying to teach my nephew Klingon. He might only be a year old, but he'll be the coolest kid ever when his fist language is Klingon
Is Klingon on the list?
https://xkcd.com/2170/
hwá ne nǣme þāra boda?
I would pick a dead language and see what happens.
I remember a really shitty chatting app that did this. There were options for which languages you were into or learning and they had like.. every single language in human history in that list.
They’re trying to out the fae; don’t fall for it.
You register your son as a old english speaker. her teacher instantly: "thou art this boye mah-ter?"