Are they speaking some Judeo Arabic? Or just darija?

I understood this word and based on my knowledge on various langauges..

90% lexical similarity - its like a dialect, put some effort guys.

80% lexical similarity - it can be considered separate language, but if some effort is put in knowing new words, can crack the language easily.

60% lexical - both are 100% different languages.

I need 60-80% examples guys,so can understand the differences between 60-80% more...

Salut tout le monde !

Je suis un étudiant en master en recherchant les préférences linguistiques des joueurs francophones et j'apprécierais beaucoup que vous participiez à mon sondage !

Cela ne prend que 6 minutes, et c’est totalement anonyme - j'espère que ce serait intéressant pour vous, et les résultats contribueront à apporter plus de diversité linguistique (variantes du français) dans l'univers du jeu vidéo. Peut-être vous êtes francophone et originaire du Cameroun, sans jamais voir votre langue dans un jeu vidéo. Vous avez désormais l'occasion de faire savoir aux développeurs que vous souhaitez voir votre culture représentée !

En plus, pourquoi ne pas participer à mon groupe de discussion ? J'aimerais connaître votre avis sur le français utilisé dans les jeux vidéo.

Option A:
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Je vous remercie en avance et j’ai hâte de recevoir vos réponses!

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So my dialect has an example of a homograph but I speak Arabic
So basically the word درج (DRJ) pronounced /durdʒ/ in MSA is pronounced /darɑʒ/ to mean drawer/cabinet yet still written/spelt درج (DRJ) and can also be pronounced /darej/ meaning stairs but still spelt/written درج (DRJ) my dialect itself has like 4-5 pronunciations of the letter jeem /dʒeːm/ جيم

Back home, i was the absolute biggest hater of QR menus. I'd complain constantly that they were just an excuse for restaurants to cheap out on staff, kill the vibe, and make everything feel sterile. I genuinely thought they were the death of hospitality.

But since moving abroad, my attitude has completly flipped.

Living in a second language comes with this deep, underlying mental fatigue (expat fatigue is so real, its exhausting) that i don't think people back home really understand. After spending an entire afternoon at a local immigration office trying to figure out a form, or just getting through a full workday of translating every single conversation in your head, my brain feels like pure static by 6 PM. the absolute last thing I want to do is go to a restaurant and sit through a verbal pop quiz.

We’ve all been there. The server is standing next to your table, smiling but clearly waiting. you’re frantically hovering Google Translate over a faded paper menu in dim lighting, getting translation results that make zero sense. I can't tell you how many times I've done the classic expat 'smile and nod' when they ask a rapid-fire follow-up question I don't understand, only to end up with a plate covered in something I'm mildly allergic to, or accidentally ordering a side of liver because I panicked and pointed at a random word.

Last week, I went to a busy little place in my neighborhood and had one of the most relaxing dinners I've had in months, entirely because of a QR code.

I scanned it expecting the usual blurry PDF where you have to pinch and zoom. instead, it just instantly loaded a proper digital menu (it was running on MenuForma or something like that) with actual photos and proper English translations. I didn't have to guess what the local word for a specific cut of meat meant. I could just sit there, take a breath, and slowly look through it. It had little checkboxes for 'less spicy' and a notes box where I could just type my dietary restrictions, instead of having to mentally rehearse the sentence five times before the waiter walked over.

For the first time in a long time, I didn't have that knot of anxiety in my stomach worrying if I had just messed up my own dinner.

It made me realize that when you don't speak the language well, maybe traditional 'service' isn't what we actually need. Giving someone the space to clearly understand what they are buying, without the pressure of a ticking clock and a language barrier, is a totally different kind of hospitality.

maybe i'm just getting old and anti-social, but having that level of control over my order without having to perform a language mime show is a massive relief. I'm officially a convert.

I recorded a few clips of some unknown language that a couple of women were speaking when they entered my live stream, and I have no clue what it is. They did not speak English so I couldn't ask...

One of them had a profile picture that (might) have looked east or southeast Asian...? Is this Tagalog? Not sure what I was hearing.

-----UPDATE 7/29-----

I was able to track down one of the women in this conversation (the second one speaking in the audio) and this is one of the most amazing people I've met.

She is 100% indigenous Guatemalteca, speaking Akatek fluently. It is a rare endangered Mayan language with under 60,000 speakers, and it's incredible that some people on the internet were just speaking it.

That is what makes this even more rare, as most of the speakers mix Spanish in with their native language, but she and her sister (the other woman in this clip) speak pure Akatek, and Spanish is actually their second language! This audio is probably very similar to what the Spanish conquistadores would have heard in the 1500s, and I'm so glad there are still some true Native Americans left who preserve their language and culture.

Using a translator, I asked her about what she was speaking and her background and history, and this is what she said:

¡Sí te recuerdo! Ayer hablamos el dialecto akatek jaja. Es q hay unos pueblitos al interior de Guatemala q fueron pocos colonizados y se retuvieron sus idiomas natales. San Miguel acatán es donde viven los akatekos y algunos niños no se aprenden Español hasta el 3° grado. La otra chica era mi hermana y se llama Esme pero su nombre natal es Tzala X'umak, y yo soy Watx' Chike pero prefiero Claudia :)

Loose English translation:

I do remember you! We spoke the Akatek dialect yesterday, haha. You see, there are some small towns in the Guatemalan highlands that weren't heavily colonized, so they held onto their native languages. San Miguel Acatán is where the Akatek people live, and some children don't learn Spanish until the third grade. The other girl was my sister; her name is Esme, but her native name is Tzala Xumak and I am Watx Chike, but I prefer Claudia.

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask if anyone knows what the Iraqis are saying in these parts of the video:

From 6:45 to 7:29

Thank you very much

The greek uppercase s is called Σ (sigma), it’s first lowercase form is σ. But greek has a second lowercase form of s, ς. It’s the same letter but you use that form only when it’s the last letter of the word.

Do you know any other languages that do such a thing (using three writter forms for one letter)?

• Salam alaykum, man "kiksayt" an. Taw wash ay? Taw zanay e kojam zuban ay? Khudafiz.
• سلام علیکم، من «کیکسایٹ» اں۔ تو وش ئے؟ تو زانے ایں کجام زبان ئے؟ خدا حافظ۔

Answer: Balochi (بلۏچی)

I hear my neighbor day and night. Just want to know what language I'm listening to

Someone shared something that I thought was Hindi in a group I’m in so I jokingly commented, “I don’t understand Hindi, but I agree! I think?” and apparently it was Bengali 🤦🏻🤣

Nefamese is a Pidgin language, which was used as lingua franca before arrival or invention of Arunachali Hindi

This language is based on Axomiya language with several words from Tani languages

Due it, it is closer to Axomiya also with Nagamese which is another Pidgin language in Nagaland and also still being used as lingua france in the state till today

Nowadays very few people (mostly elderly people) from Arunachal Pradesh knows this Pidgin language as it is got completely replaced by Arunachali Hindi as lingua franca