Guessing the Country But ONLY Using the Language
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2024
- In today's video, I'm playing a Geoguessr map called "a Linguistic World", which includes locations that emphasise guessing the language. I'll be trying to see how many languages I recognise, and giving tips based on what I know. Enjoy!
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Maker of the map here (old username used here). I haven't really updated the map since January 2023 as i did burn out of the game which is why updated coverage haven't been fixed. I can give some insights on some of the languages you weren't quite sure on.
The Indigenous language of Chile was Mapuche. You can find words and phrases of it here and there in central Chile.
The Celtic language of Cornwall was ofc Cornish which very rarely shows up but can be found. They get more common the further west you go basically.
I believe the location in Japan moved forward one step as a sign in Japanese and Ainu got hidden. Ainu being a minority language spoken on Hokkaido by not so many people anymore.
The language sadly always leaned a bit European. This is partially because i know more about distinguishing those languages and also the European countries are more likely to have signs in minority languages than other places. This was pre-india streetview update so that is a place the map really could improve on. If i ever decide to update the map more i would focus a lot there and probably look into SAE, especially Indonesia and the Philippines. (Germany for some Sorbian as well)
Good job! If you ever decide to look into Indonesia, could you please make it more difficult by showing them our traditional scripts? 😁
Yes, officially we only use Latin alphabet but for certain things like street names and government buildings you can still see our traditional scripts. For example, you might see something like ꦢꦭꦤ꧀ꦩꦭꦶꦪꦧꦫ in Yogyakarta and Central Java, ᮏᮜᮔ᮪ ᮘᮢᮌ in West Java, ᨅᨒᨒᨚᨇᨚᨕ in South Sulawesi, ᯖᯀᯬ ᯖᯬᯅ in North Sumatra, etc.
On top of that, there are provinces where local Arabic-based scripts are used like بندر اودارا اينترنسيونل سلطان شريف قاسم ٢ in Riau which will definitely confuse guessers 😄 Oh, there’s even one place in Indonesia that uses Korean Hangul! 😂
There is rich history with the Greeks & Mapuche natives. The Mapuche (Araucanians) pronounce Chile as “Hele”, which is a Greek derivative of “lips” and this how the Chiloe island got its name (in Greek it means tongue, lips). Epu means “two” in Mapudungun. I went down a rabbit hole this morning…
@@kilanspeaks There are multiple locations in Indonesia using all these scripts represented on the map already! The Hangul one is always fun to see but i believe i only found one or two signs when i looked (Cia-Cia language)
@@awopcxet Oh really? Awesome! 😮 You’re probably hoping people to see Javanese script and mistake them for Thai or some other Southeast Asian country, huh? 🤭
Hahaha yes, it’s Cia-Cia Language from the island of Buton in the province of Southeast Sulawesi that uses Hangul. It’s really silly in my opinion, but that’s beside the point 😁 Thanks for acknowledging our traditional scripts! 🙏
It's a cool map!
The language in Cornwall is indeed Cornish! It's unfortunately no longer spoken, but it's part of the same Celtic language family as Welsh and Breton
"The language in Cornwall is indeed Cornish!"
Makes sense if you put it like that :)
I was in the (beautiful) town of mousehole recently and saw a plaque saying "Here lived Dolly Pentreath, one of the last speakers of the Cornish language, as her native tongue died December 1777."
Isn't there a revival movement, with quite a few people learning it?
@@snowjaguar529Yes! I visit cornwall every year in the summer and there are loads of posters and classes going around about learning cornish
As a Russian, I can say that even though Kyrgyz is written in Cyrillics, it's a very different language from the Turkic language family! I wouldn't be able to understand what was written on that donation box if it wasn't translated to Russian and English
Интересно это только для меня или нет, надпись "Ваш вклад и оценим" выглядит как-то странно и не совсем переводиться как you can support this museum
Кажется, там написано "Ваш вклад неоценим", но "е" стёрлась. Тогда перевод уже выглядит более логичным, хоть и не дословным@@benderiq8094
@@benderiq8094 мне кажется, это носители киргизскиого так пытались на русский перевести
@@benderiq8094 по-моему, там не "ваш вклад и оценим", а "ваш вклад неоценим", что уже не выглядит так странно, просто буква е стёрлась или изначально плохо пропечаталась, но всё равно есть некоторые странности в том, что "ваш вклад неоценим" и "you can support this museum" использованы как аналоги... мне стало интересно и я перевёл первую фразу с кыргызского на русский, первая фраза означает "ваш вклад того стоит", что в принципе походит на "ваш вклад неоценим", но тогда получается, что первые две фразы говорят про вклад, третья про поддержку музея, а в последней вообще написано просто "для музея, спасибо", что действительно странно, потому что фразы имеют не совсем одинаковое значение, хотя смысл понятен: это просто коробка для пожертвований. лучше бы в этом музее просто написали на всех языках, на каких им нужно, фразу "коробка для пожертвований" или даже просто "пожертвования", меньше краски для принтера бы потратили и все фразы имели бы одинаковое значение
@@benderiq8094 по-моему, там было написано "ваш вклад неоценим", просто "е" стёрлась
8:30 : In cornwall the original language in that region is Cornish, there are only 1000 speakers of that language left in the world though and none actually speak it as a first language, its a bit like latin in that sense.
Funnily it translates to Naked Park.
0:55 "MMRDA" stands for Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, and it's pretty common to see on road signs. Semi-useful tip to get Mumbai with.
Yess MSRDC as well!
4:50 I grew up just a few minutes away from this lake, what's on the sign is actually all one long name. At 45 characters it's actually the longest place name in the USA! In older maps it was called the relatively shorter names of "Chargoggagoggmanchoggagogg" and "Chaubunagungamaug". In conversation now most call the place Lake Webster though.
I remember seeing this on a Daniel Thrasher video so it was super funny it actually see it on Google maps lol
I live around 40 minutes away from there and I went near there to disc golf. Took a picture of a storefront sign with the name, and I still have it in my camera roll.
Was not expecting a place that close to home in this video lol
6:20 if u see german language in poland it should almost always be in silesia/opole voivodeships
And for all intents and purposes the Opole region only.
Tip for Poland. If you have double language city/town signs with German names, usually it will be around Opole (city half way between Wrocław and Katowice).
The first location had the ळ character (which generally means Maharashtra). And for the Japan round it was Ainu written in Katakana not Japanese.
Oh wow, so the native Hokkaido language
How do you know it’s Ainu and not Japanese? If they both use Katakana
@@abm6847 Theres 2 ways to tell I think.
1. Well, its gibberish in Japanese there so it helps if you know their language lol.
2. Ainu is written only in Katakana from what I know and it has extra characters that Japanese doesn't have. Like ラリルレロ but in small letters
@@shadowllght that’s cool, thanks for the explanation!
@@shadowllght But the Katakana here ウポポイ is just the name of the company Upopoy and not supposed to meaning anything right? And it doesn't have any of the unusual characters either.
You got a bit done dirty on that Kyrgyzstan round, because there was a few faded letters
Сиздин салымыңыз баа жеткис means "your contribution is invaluable"
The ң (ng or ñ) wasn't very visible and it wouldve been a good indication of Kyrgyz language. and the M was faded which made you read it as ч
A good hint for mongolian is that they use "э" a lot more often than "е" and there are a lot of double vowels
The first loc had Marathi, not Hindi, identifiable by the infinity-like symbol. Also the coverage was the old gen 3 Mumbai bike trekker!
In 6:00 this is the Mapuche language of the Mapuche native Americans which make up around 10% of Chile’s population
wow, i can't believe zigzag went china on myanmar with vietnamese language! truly a showcase of pure talent
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For Welsh - Welsh never has K. "Park" is "Parc". Welsh is also pretty strict about this in loans also - and even names (see Port Maddock > Porth Madog). Cornish (Kernwek Kemmyn) does have a k however.
Hey zigzag, in the location in Poland there are mainly two places with bilingual signs. One would be near Opole, all in the "opolskie" state. The other region is to the west/south-west of Gdańsk where you can find signs signs in kashubian, a small minority language. There are also a couple of signs with lithuanian on them just by the polish-lithuanian border, a couple of signs with belarussian near the city of Bielsk Podlaski and very little signs with Lemko language (a small ethnic minority as well) in Gorlicki county just by the slovakian border. Hopefully it helps one day. Happy region guessing in Poland lol.
10:51 The first line isn't Russian. There is Russian only on the second line. And it looks like 1 letter is erased. It's supposed to say "Ваш вклад неоценим".
6:21 spawn polaków którzy to rozumią xD
ooh was hoping you'd do more of these! so fun
also i'm assuming (may be wrong) the one in temuco was mapuche :) as a language student it's fun to see your reasonings behind these
I love these videos when you play different maps! ❤️ love these videos this I will learn a lot from this video!
The poland round at 6:20 translates to cold vodka xD
"Zimna Wódka" means "cold vodka" and it is a city name, Kaltwasser is just a German translation, although I think innacurate because as far as I know Kaltwasser means "cold water", not vodka.
The word "vodka" actually means "water".
Isn't it like voda which means water and adding the k translates vodka to little water
@@vincentmaltais507In principle yes, but nobody uses wódka to mean "little water" as that's kind of a meaningless word anyway. So wódka solely means vodka. If you want to say little water, you just say "Mała Woda" - I'm sure there's a bunch of villages called that.
Originally it meant cold water
@@michaelwisniewski6047 Ah, I see, thank you for clearing things up.
A nice tip for region guessing in Poland is how the farms look. If the fields are skinnier and very thin, then it's probably going to be Old Poland. If the farms are wide and big then it's likely western Poland (around Prussia borders). This is because in Prussia it was common for farmers to give all their land to their oldest son when they passed away, while in Poland it was common to split the land up among their kid's.
That language was Cornish but its extinct now, like many other celtic langauges unfortunately.
Welsh is probably the only celtic language still widely spoken daily
always so creative video ideas. i like it : )
3:00 a dutchie here, idk if you find it interesting but the "u" in dutch is pronounced like the German "ü" (I know you speak German so that is the easiest to compare it with I think) the German "u" in dutch would be "oe". And on the street sign the "uy" is old Dutch for "ui" which I think is a Dutch specific sound and I've never been able to explain the pronunciation to my German friends haha. The closest I've come is that it is a little bit like the sound you make when you transition from A to Ü (in German). Idk if you care but in case you found it interesting I thought I might comment :)
also thanks again for uploading around my dinner time 🙏😌
also get well soon :)
12:05 1st line was Kyrgyz and 2nd was Russian, it’s typical in post soviet countries
Great video! Can you make a video where you play this map with one or more polyglots? Similar to the video with the botanist, but then with one or more polyglots and an emphasis on language. That would be great fun!
love the videos :3
6:34 Believe it or not, I drove by Zimna Wódka yesterday! The name literally means “cold vodka,” whereas the German Kaltwasser means “cold water.” Guess the graffiti artist didn’t feel like a nonalcoholic beverage. 😅
You’re a great guy Oscar, hope you go onto big things
There should be a game that has translations of "red road" into other languages and you have to guess what language it is 😁
Good map idea for sure!!
"I still find it kind of interesting there that the town is called Kaltwasser, 'cos I can't think of anything that is sort of cold like that in Germany" - but here I am typing this from Berlin where it was -3 C last night and the big canal nearby is completely frozen.
1:00 MMRDA is the Mumbai Regional Development Authority, useful to know because you see it on quite a few signs in Mumbai
Oscar , great video as always ❤.
Tip: In terms of visual differences, the Hindi script (Devanagari) tends to have more complex characters with horizontal lines connecting them, often including characters with a horizontal top line. On the other hand, the Bengali script features more curvilinear and less complex characters with distinct horizontal and vertical elements. Observing these visual distinctions in written text can help differentiate between Hindi and Bengali.
Always funny when a location is right around home for me in central mass. Going from Japan one round to naming a town I played soccer in as a kid just kinda crazy
The UK one was cornish, my old english teacher was from cornwall, and cornish language is wild and so interesting, but its not spoken anymore, itis part of the Celtic language family like welsh is so your guess was pretty good.
As someone with a degree in Linguistics and a very keen interest in Goegraphy this is my favourite map to play by far
1:20 Bengali has more triangle-like shapes, thats how i remember it. Its not the most reliable way to distinguish the two scripts but works for me most of the time
Before I understood any Geoguessr meta, years ago, I would tell urban Kyrgyzstan from urban Russia based on language. The languages are so mightily different, one being Slavic the other Turkic, that it's pretty easy to just read one word and know immediately this can or cannot be a Slavic word. Well, it helps I know Polish and learned Russian at school, but still, it should be clear after reading many Slavic place names that these words cannot be Slavic: өз, тагдырың, берүүгө, бирдигин, Бейкуттукту, ширетип...
Could you make a video with some tips on how to distinguish different islands?
Really interesting map. Shows that you can use a lot of clues to get very specific regions and not only bollard or Poles :D
Hi oscar, my way to tell the difference between bengali and hindi is that bengali has a triangle-like shape in a lot of their letters. For example বাংলা which is the bengali word for bengali. Other symbols also have this angular shape to them, while the main languages from india have more round symbols. I'm not even asian and this has worked for me 100% of the time to tell them apart.
Thanks for the info, this will help to tell them apart in matches
awesome video!
Bro i love doing this. Im pretty decent at it cause of my script obsession so its my one boon in comp. Fun as hell.
this lad deserves everything he desires, so smart yet so humble, if you ever find yourself, dear Oscar in northen croatia, beer and pizza has youre name on it, cheers
Some of the tips that help me:
Bengali has alot of left pointing triangle shapes, where as Hindi has none.
For Czech and Slovak, only Czech has ř.
Hungarian has a bunch of é coupled with sz's
Albanian has ALOT of ë and x isn't too uncommon i.e. (Xhamia)
Romania is the only Euro country that uses ă or ţ
Croation I can usually get off a vibe cause it looks hella slavic but uses đ, ju and has both š & ć in its alphabet.
In the first round, the language there was actually Marathi which is very similar to Hindi but can sometimes have some more circular characters in the script.
Interesting to see a Webster MA, as I live in Webster NY.
The street signs you saw in the Cambodia round are specific to Phnom Penh. With the updated coverage, PP is a very easy city to get 5K since the street numbers are predictable.
Your brain must have switched when you guessed all the wrong choices on Cornwall. 😂 Kaltwasser cold water, Vodka, Russian for water. Great video, well done.
With the amount of meta you know I’m kinda surprised that you didn’t recognize that Dutch street name as not being in Amsterdam. The signs in Amsterdam are distinct from those in the rest of the country, with the city district in smaller letters under the street name
4:26 a modern cape Cod house (typical of New Hampshire by the way ;-)
... please could you do a video on 'A Housed World' ?
2:35 lol, I know that place. that’s in the city where I live and I’ve biked through that street a couple of times.
4:55 The lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is famous for having the longest name of a geographic feature in the US. It seems like what looks at first to be spaces are faded letters.
Uk having a variety of different languages and countries in it is so wild to think about for me, despite being smaller than New Zealand or the state of Victoria in Australia..
To be fair there were over 40 languages in Victoria at one point.
Well the UK has had been invaded a lot more because of time and being near to so many countries. These languages were preserved because those areas were either of no use to the invaders, or they managed to defend themselves very well with the terrain. Cornwall basically has nothing there except (very beautiful) beaches and some metals like Tin and Copper.
8:40 I think the language is Cornish, a practically extinct Celtic language previously spoken in Cornwall
Kyrgyz language is a turkic language and is pretty similar to others. Except its of course written in a different script than Azerbaijani or turkey turkish
In the museum the first line was written in kyrgyz language and the second was in russian
i recognise the lake because daniel thrasher pronounced it in one of his shorts
Here after the tournament when you were trolling rainbolt with red soil 😂
4:58 that removed sign in MA is actually a Gilmore Girls reference!😅
"Kaltwasser" just translates to cold water. It probably refers to a nearby river. Names like that are pretty common in Germany, at least for small villages.
the kyrg museum has the top line in kyrgyz and the second is a somewhat wrong rough russian translation. you're not going to see so many double vowels or so many "ы"s in the same word in russian typically, which can be a good way to distinguish between them visually. kyrgyz has lots of "ы"s, double "a"(aa) and үү, mongolian is similar to kyrgyz that way, letters э and ы are more rare in russian and are used sparingly
Apparently the Chile round had Mapucho language
9:00 thats cornish spoken in cornwall ,england
The sign was probably removed from the Massachusetts location because it referred to the local school sports mascot of the "Indians." There has been a trend for a decade or so in the US to change the names of school mascots that could be considered offensive by some. My own High School's mascot used to be the Indians but it was changed a few years ago.
Zimna wódka indeed means cold vodka 😂 it’s a subject of many memes in Poland
I'm not sure if anyone already mentioned this, but I'd guess that the US sign was removed due to saying "Indian" instead of "Native American", or because of the stereotypical logo that's a bit offensive. Lots of US sports teams have changed their names in recent years for similar reasons.
That Native American lake name is actually all one word but some letters were missing.
ive been there in massachusetts, thats the longest nae in the world
in the first round you see the letters MMRDA that will be seen on many infrastucture things and always belongs to thwe city of mumbai
in the chile round the language was mapudungún which is the language that mapuche people speak . epu and meli are numbers ! they mean 2 and 4 . mapuche people used to be around the whole south of chile , being temuco the most populated city . nowadays they're the largest native population in chile ! but they're still in dispute with the government and police for the stolen land
Hey, can you add challenge links in the future vids?
Hey Zig, small tip to distinguish the Turkic & Mongolic languages that use Cyrillic (like Kyrgyz & Mongolian) from Russian: Unless I'm mistaken, Russian will never have the same vowel twice in a row, like "aa" you saw there. Nor will other Slavic languages using the Cyrillic alphabet for that matter. Note this is for vowels written exactly the same - ий (generally transliterated as "iya") does not count. EDIT: Per the helpful comments below, it does happen, but it seems relatively rare - and I also forgot loanwords exist 😅
I might be wrong on this though, and of course, various Turkic and Mongolic languages can be found in Russia, like Bashkir & Tatar in the European parts, or languages like Tuvan in Tuva (around Kyzyl), or Buryat south of lake Baikal (Irkutsk & Ulan-Ude area) and Yakut in Yakutia, and many more, although most likely in place names, less so in actual text & signage, as Russia is actively trying to homogenise it's population and discourage those language identities (to prevent nationalist sentiments and keep it's colonial empire intact).
there are double vowels in russian, but very rarely in location names
Well, it is not as common, but there are some words in Russian that have the same vowel twice in a row (e.g. "вообще" or "зоопарк"). Moreover, there are words with three e's in a row ("длинношеее", "змееед").
zimna wódka means cold vodka basically haha, the sign was also in German, because in World War that region was taken by Germans
The region's German ties are much older. During the Middle Ages the rulers of Silesia invited German colonists into their land to help boost its population. Many settlements in the area thus originally had German names, and for centuries a significant portion of its populace were native German speakers. It was only after WW2 that (almost) all of Silesia came under Polish control again, having originally separated from it to join Bohemia all the way back in 1335.
Park in Welsh is spelt Parc, just for future reference!
The language in souther england was Cornish
Thanks for the thumbnail.
Regarding the Chile round, according to Wikipedia the native language spoken around Temuco is Mapuche, but putting Epu and Meli in an online Mapuche-English dictionary did not give any result.
I heard triangle is only found in Bangladesh language
not sure if this is true but this works every time
Cornwall is a beautiful part of the world 👌
Us Americans so lost right now
Also loved seeing you in rainbolt 40 sec npmz challange yesterday
Why? Cause of the stereotypes? 😅
Omg vietnamese on the thunbnail!!
It hard for me to explain how that is pronounced in dutch but it's funny to hear 😂
Nunca voy abandonarte
Nunca voy a fallarte
Nunca voy a correr o desertarte
Nunca voy hacerte llorar
Nunca voy decir adios
Nunca voy a mentir o ofenderte
I think the Germans just took the Polish names and translated them as best into German, Zimna Wodka more or less means Kaltwasser (cold water) in Polish. Correct me if I’m wrong any Polish or history experts out there!
Zimna Wódka indeed means cold vodka 😁
Most common difference between Bengali and north indian language is, bengali have character with rotated triangle like র, ব, ক
language goat
The language in Chile could be mapuche
Do you know how to differ some of the different Slavic languages from each other?
to some extent, yeah
@@zi8gzag Well obviously there's the latin script vs. cyrillic.
Polish is also written quite uniquely of these. Ś Ć Ż Ź Ł Ń...
In all the other latin script slavic languages there's š č ž
Czech and Slovak have á é í ó ú ý Ťť Ďď Ňň
Czech has ř, ě and ů
Slovak has ô and Ľ ľ
And our south slavs have Đđ [lj] [nj]
Slovenian doesn't have Đđ
In Cyrillic:
A language being written in cyrillic does not imply it's slavic. There are turkic languages which also use cyrillic, such as Kyrgyz or Mongolian (out of those with Street View).
Out of the cyrillic Slavic languages that appear in Street View (Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian:
Russian has ъ only after consonants and before vowels.
Bulgarian has ъ but it is a vowel itself.
Ukrainian, Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian don't have ъ.
ы exists only in Russian out of these languages.
A letter that looks just like latin i exists in Ukrainian only.
A letter that looks just like latin j exists in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.
Letters that are merged with ь, like Љ and Њ, exist in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.
The letter Џ is used in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.
The letters Ђ ђ, Ћ ћ only exist in Serbo-Croatian.
Consonant letters with accents Ѓ Ќ exist in Macedonian only.
Щ, Ю, Я exist in Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.
Ґ ґ only exists in Ukrainian.
@@plislegalineu3005Slovak also has Ĺĺ and Ŕŕ
@@simonnt Ah yes! I forgot about those! And it's worth noting that some of the letters might be quite rare and therefore basically useless in most games
How much do you pay attention to the Views/Algo? Do you make vids that you enjoy to make / us commentors recommend - or are you (way) more likely to «re»make the vids that get the most views?
(Thank you bro for actually reading comments - most TH-camrs wont, due to being insecure - Christ got us🙏🏽✝️)
I’ll always have respect for you for that reason - and for actully cooking up (the best YT vid ever) when i suggested The 4-pictures-country impossible challenge
Welsh language is, majority of the time, above English on signs :)
Mate it's very simple, there is one 'hooked' letter pointing left which occurs only in Bengali. Look it up.
And by the way - 'Zimna Wódka' literally means cold vodka, and the southwestern region of Poland is called Silesia. It used to be a separate geographic region inhabited by Silesians, who had German origins. There's a lot of German influence in this area, and the Silesian language itself is similar to German. Poland is somewhat considered an occupant of Silesia ;)
I know what I'm talking about; I'm a Silesian myself ;) and by the way, silesian language in writing is similar to czech/slovak, so that would be great bait round in one of your games :D try to look for it in cities like Katowice, Bytom, Ruda Śląska, Chorzów.
I do believe I have ancestors from Silesia too actually :D
@@zi8gzag well hello brother :D
disc?
How do you know which country you're in if the writing is english
use the context clues around you!
listen to the accent
can't lie i was baited to click on this cuz I recognize vietnamese from the thumbnail
you top 3 nmpz rn?
nahh not yet
not wearing a suit... im disappointed
my apologies I will dust of the CGI tux for the next video
@@zi8gzagyou had a cool background tho
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