Reckon you can recognise a language from a piece of text? Or at least take an educated guess? Have a go and see how you get on. As always, let us all know how it works out, in a comment below (if you wish).
In each question, take a look at the text, then choose the language you think it is written in. Let’s have some fun 🙂
WARNING: One trick question!!
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Question of
În contrast cu aceasta, realismul ştiinţific defineşte ştiinţa în termeni ontologici: ştiinţa încearcă să identifice fenomene şi entităţi, forţele care le cauzează, mecanismele prin care ele exercită aceste forţe, şi sursele acelor forţe în sensul structurilor interne ale acestor fenomene şi entităţi.
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Spanish
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Portuguese
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Romanian
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Norwegian
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Un’ipotesi è un assunto non ancora supportato da verifiche sperimentali. Un modello è un’astrazione utile a fare delle previsioni sull’occorrenza di un fenomeno, che possono essere verificate mediante esperimenti e osservazioni.
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French
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Italian
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German
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Polish
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Wetenskaplike navorsing speel ‘n groot rol in alle ontwikkelde lande en van hul wetenskaplikes word verwag om enige vindings in vaktydskrifte te publiseer. Hierdie tydskrifte het medewerkers wat al die feite in ‘n artikel nagaan voordat dit gepubliseer word, maar selfs ná publisering word nuwe idees gewoonlik nie aanvaar voordat dit elders herhaal kon word nie.
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Dutch
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Danish
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Swahili
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Afrikaans
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Question of
En canvi, el realisme científic defineix la ciència en termes ontològics: la ciència és la identificació dels fenòmens i dels elements de l’entorn, de les energies que els causen, dels mecanismes pels quals hi exerceixen aquestes energies, i de les fonts d’aquestes energies en el context de l’estructura o natura interna del subjecte en estudi.
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Romanian
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Catalan
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Portuguese
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Irish
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Question of
Cangen o wyddoniaeth sy’n disgrifio’r gwrthrychau a’r grymoedd mwyaf gwaelodol a sylfaenol ynghyd â’r berthynas rhyngddynt a’r deddfau sy’n eu llywodraethu fel y gellir dweud fod pob ffenomen naturiol yn deillio ohonynt yw gwyddoniaeth bur neu wyddoniaeth waelodol.
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Breton
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Scots Gaelic
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Welsh
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Dutch
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Erromatarrek ez zuten aurrerapenik egin zientzia hutsean baina greziarren ezagupenak gorde eta zabaldu zituzten, eta ingeniaritzako eta arkitekturako arazoen konponbideei eman zieten lehentasuna. Erromako Inperioaren gainbeherarekin batera desagertu zen greziar klasikoen hedapena Europan.
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Irish
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Basque
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Icelandic
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Vietnamese
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Tio signifis unuafoje, ke teoriaj studoj estas iel aplikeblaj al analizo kaj priskribo de realaĵoj. Post Sokrato, Aristotelo evoluigis sciencecan mondmodelon laŭ kiu la Suno ĉirkaŭiras la Teron, kaj multaj aĵoj en naturo ekzistas ĝuste pro ilia utilo al la homo: estis la unua ekzemplo je homcentra modelo.
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Esperanto
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Polish
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Estonian
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Romanian
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Tá an t-ualach chruthúnais níos suntasaí agus níos doichte ná a mhalairt. Mar sin de, bíonn hipitéis measartha coitianta san eolaíocht, bíonn méid áirithe “teoiric” ann, ach bíonn “dlíthe” gann go leor ar an dtalamh.
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Lao
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Maori
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French
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Irish
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Hanya ta farko: Iyaye; Ana fara samun ilimin farko ne daga iyaye, musamman Mahaifiya. Daga gare ta ne mutum yake fara koyar abubuwa iri-iri. Kamar su cin abinci, sanya tufafi, tarbiyyar rayuwa, tsafta da sauransu. Da taimakon mahaifi kuma yaro ya ke samun Juriya, Dogaro da Kai, Nagarta da kuma tabbatuwa a kan turba ta gari.
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Welsh
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Breton
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Hausa
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Swahili
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Namna ya kueleza jambo kisayansi huchimbuka toka Nadharia ama Udhanifu. Halafu tena ili Kweli ikubalike; hutoka kwenye udhanifu; kwa kupitia kupitia majaribio rasmi, hutengeneza dhana kamili ama nadharia kama ni shauri la kueleza mwenendo na tabia.
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Swahili
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Hausa
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Xhosa
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Afrikaans
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Az egyetemes tudomány fejlődéséhez hozzájárul (többek között) a felsőoktatás az intézményeiben folyó kutató-, alkotó művészeti munka, az új tudományos eredmények és alkotások létrehozásával, a korszerű ismeretek átvétele és továbbadása által, továbbá a kiemelkedő képességű tehetségek tudományos szintű felkészítése révén.
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Czech
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Slovenian
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Hungarian
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Cornish
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Il s’agissait ainsi d’une notion philosophique (la connaissance pure, au sens de « savoir »), qui devint ensuite une notion religieuse, sous l’influence du christianisme. La « docte science » concernait alors la connaissance des canons religieux, de l’exégèse et des écritures, paraphrase pour la théologie, première science instituée.
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Catalan
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Galician
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French
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Croatian
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Í heimi vísindanna er ekkert sem telst algerlega sannað og byggist allt á því sem að menn vita best á hverjum tíma. Kenningar eiga til með að mótast eða verið afsannaðar eftir að þær hafa verið settar svo að taka skal tillit til þess þegar kenningar eru íhugaðar. Þess ber að minnast að svonefnd „lögmál“ eru kenningar, þrátt fyrir að nafngiftin segi annað.
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Danish
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Finnish
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Irish
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Icelandic
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Piştre zanistên weke Kant, Hegel, Marks û hwd wê derkevin û wê hizrên xwe bênina ser ziman û wê bihizrên xwe re demekê bidina destpê kirin. Zanyarên weke Albert Einstain, Sigmond Freud, û hwd, wê demekê bidina destpê kirin. Einstein bi fizikê wê hizrên xwe bêne ser ziman Teorîya Dîtbarî û ankû ‘rolatîvît’ ya wî ya.
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Turkish
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Kurdish
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Azeri
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Hausa
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nortcele eht ,elcitrap cimotabus tsrif eht fo yrevocsid eht emac raey txen eht ni . ytivitcaoidar fo yrevocsid eht deripsni syar X fo yrevocsid eht : yrutnec suoiverp eht fo edaced tsal eht ni derevocsid erew mota eht fo noitcurtsnoced eht wolla dluow taht anemonehp eht
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Basque
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Swahili
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Esperanto
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None of the above!
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I made a similar quiz (currently pending) without knowing you did one too, but I thought it was possible it was already posted by someone else.
How could I confuse Dutch with Afrikaans? ?
At least I got the last one right, reverse speech, uh? ?
11/15, yay!
7 out of 15 is a surprisingly good effort on my part
Well done- this was a tricky quiz, especially for any non-European!
8 out of 15 😀 My self confidence has just waved me “goodbye” 😀
I am surprised – they were mostly European languages! But you made up for it later when recognising a language by its script 🙂
My country is on the South and I am not so familiar with North European languages. Still, those quizzes are for fun and to learn something new and that’s why I like them. 🙂
Next time try to add some Croatian. 🙂
You can do it, mrki! What are you waiting for? 🙂
I like more physic, math and women. 🙂
Tough one! I got 8/15.
It was meant to be challenging! You did quite well 🙂
It’s fun having a good mix of tough quizzes and easier ones 🙂
Only 7 out of 15, shame on me. Thanks for your quizz, it is very interesting one.
No shame, Tealea! 7 is a pass. Thanks for playing 🙂
4 again
This was a hard quiz!
Shared on Facebook 2/7/17
8/15
It’s a good score! Thanks for playing 🙂
5 out of 15
It was real hard, I know! Thanks for playing 🙂
Great quiz, I only recognized 6 of them but I really enjoyed learning!
Enjoying it is what matters! And it sure was a toughie 🙂 Thanks for participating, Doc
Again not my best subject only 4 correct.
It was a tough one – even for the language experts! Thanks for playing, Carol 🙂
That’s over 30% – almost a pass!! It was a real toughie, in fairness – thanks for playing 🙂
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7 out of 15
Not so bad 🙂
Not so bad at all, Emily! Thanks for playing 🙂
9/15 cool quiz!
Nice score, Ellie! Thanks for playing 🙂
“You got 9 out of 15 right!” Two of them by chance!! 🙂
Chance or not, 9 is a good score in this, Ileana! Thanks for playing 🙂
My pleasure, Norman! It was a pleasure to see that you also chose Romanian in this quiz! 🙂
5/15
Not too bad, for such a tough quiz! Thanks for playing 🙂
8 out of 15 right!
Not so bad
Not bad at all! Thanks for playing, Lucia 🙂
I got 7 out of 15 right!
That’s a decent score! Thanks for playing 🙂
8 rights. Some are recognisable, but some are totally foreign. A challenging quiz
You did well! Thanks for playing 🙂
8/15
Anything over 50% is a good score on a quiz like this! Thanks for playing 🙂
7/15
A decent score, Benedict! Thanks for playing 🙂
6/15 haha…very nice quiz
It was a tough one, TL! Thanks for playing 🙂
Welcome too Norman… 🙂
I got a very low score. Not good at it.
I think it was a particularly tricky quiz, Cassy! Thanks for playing 🙂