Languages Flashcards
Portuguese: Where is it spoken and which special characters are used
Brazil and Portugal
Looks similar to Spanish but uses special letter ã
It’s common to see São in Brazil and Portugal
Where is French spoken?
France, Southern Belgium, Western Switzerland and Québec
Dutch and Flemish
Spoke in Northern Belgium and Netherlands
Common letters: ij, ee, z, and w
Where is German spoken and what are it’s special letters?
Germany, Northeastern Switzerland, Austria and South Tyrol in Italy
Specie letters: ä, ö, ü, ß
Italian
Italy and south of alps in Switzerland
Letters: à, ì, cc, gg
Danish
Only Denmark
Letters: æ, ø, å
Swedish
Only in Sweden
Letters: ö, ä and å
Norwegian
Only in Norway
Letters: æ, ø and å
To differentiate between Norway and Denmark: Norway has mountains, Denmark has none
Finnish
Only Finland
Letters: ä and lots of double letters
Estonian
Estonia only
Very similar to finish but they use õ
Latvian
Only Latvia
Letters: all vowels with a flat hat e.g ā
Also use: ž, and a weird į
Lithuanian
Only Lithuania
Letters: ė, š, ž, č, ū
Polish
Only Poland
Letters: ł, ó, ż, ś, ę, ń
Often see: cz, sz, rz
Czech and Slovakian
Slovak uses ä
And where Slovak uses r with an acute accent, Czech uses r with an upside down circumflex.
If you see u with a ring, it’s Czech
Hungarian
Spoken in Hungary and a small part of Romania
Letters: á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ö and and o with two acute accents
Slovenian
Only in Slovenia
Letters: ž, š, č and lots of j
Croatian
Uses letter d with a line through
It is also very hard to discern from Slovak, Slovenian and Czech
Cyrillic
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria Serbia, Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia
Greek
Only Greece
Only country using Greek alphabet
Albanian
Albania
Letters: ç, ë and q and j in weird places
Turkish
Turkey
Letters: ö, ü, ç, a short I, curvy accent on a g and an s with a cedilla
Romanian
Romania
Letters: S cedilla, t with a tail, a with a curvy up hat, and an a with a curvy down hat
If place names contain diereses (2 dots) and rings (°) it is likely to be…
Sweden
How do you tell Ukrainian from other Cyrillic languages?
It contains ï or a € like letter
What distinct letter allows you to tell Bulgarian from other Slavic languages?
A lower case ‘b’ in bold with a tail at the top left
How to tell Serbian apart from Slavic languages?
A lower case h with line through the top
It does not contain many similarities to Russian
North Macedonia is the only language which contains what 2 letters
A T with one side chopped off plus an a cute accent
And a K with an acute accent
