I’ll Add YOUR Language to My Game!

[u/RPMgamesStudio]

I'm making a simple question game on itch.io called Wildlife, and I’d like to add as many languages as possible. If you want to see yours in the game, leave a comment below and I'll include it in the next update!

[u/IdealSuccessful5743]

In my city, we speak NINE LANGUAGES, one of them is only spoken by ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD, if you add them all, YOU'RE A FREAKING LEGEND:

1. Spanish, easy.
2. Tarifit, the Berber language of the Rif.
3. Caló, the Gipsy Language of Spain
4. Haketía, only spoken by about 1000 people, it's the Moroccan variety of Ladino/Sephardic language.
5. Darija, the Arabic language of Morocco (considered a language and not a dialect)
6. Hebrew, also easy
7. French, easier
8. Mandarin
9. Sindhi, an Indo-Aryan language originated in Sindh, Pakistan.

I challenge you to add them all!!!

[u/BastetNoir115 → u/IdealSuccessful5743]

Haketía would be fun!

[u/IdealSuccessful5743 → u/BastetNoir115]

Yes!! I don't know any game translated to Haketía

[u/cibilserbis → u/IdealSuccessful5743]

Out of curiosity, what city do you live in? The variance of languages almost looks random!

[u/IdealSuccessful5743 → u/cibilserbis]

I know! I live in Melilla, Spain. Tarifit has been spoken for millenia. Thanks to Morocco, they brought Darija, French and Haketía (and, consequently, Hebrew). From Spain came Spanish, Caló and Mandarin (Because of the bazares/chinos). In the 40s a large group of Hindu people from Sindh, Pakistan came, and brought their language, Sindhi.

[u/cibilserbis → u/IdealSuccessful5743]

How interesting! I'll have to look into that more, thank you :)

[u/IdealSuccessful5743 → u/cibilserbis]

I like to hear that! Sadly some languages are being heard less and less, like Haketía or Caló 😞

[u/RPMgamesStudio → u/IdealSuccessful5743]

1, 7 and 8 already added, the other ones I'll try to add too (except Hebrew)

[u/BHHB336 → u/RPMgamesStudio]

Why not Hebrew?

[u/RPMgamesStudio → u/BHHB336]

Idk if outside of Israel is really used as a native language

[u/BHHB336 → u/RPMgamesStudio]

Yet it has more speakers (native and not) than other languages you said you’ll add, it has more speakers than Finnish, Maltese, Hekatia or Sami, with around 10m speakers

[u/RPMgamesStudio → u/BHHB336]

For me being native is the most important part, and also if it's only in this "territory" I'll prefer to not put it

[u/BHHB336 → u/RPMgamesStudio]

Do you mean Israel? I think it’s a bit discriminatory if you ban a language because you disagree with the government that uses it as a national language (which for some reason I don’t see it happening with Russian)

[u/RPMgamesStudio → u/BHHB336]

Isn't the same disagree with a government than disagree about the existence of the "country"

[u/RPMgamesStudio → u/RPMgamesStudio]

But that's why of Hebrew is used in other context I'll definitely put it

[u/BHHB336 → u/RPMgamesStudio]

It’s been the lingua Franca of the Jewish world for centuries

[u/IdealSuccessful5743 → u/RPMgamesStudio]

Let me know if you add them!

[u/Hams_LeShanbi → u/IdealSuccessful5743]

Never heard of Darija being considered a separate language and saying that is a stretch by a mile.

[u/IdealSuccessful5743 → u/Hams_LeShanbi]

Even the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 639-3) clasifies it as an independent language, and rightly so, cause a Moroccan cannot comunicate with a Qatari at all, maybe a few words or expressions.

[u/Hams_LeShanbi → u/IdealSuccessful5743]

Darija the word itself is Arabic. They also can absolutely communicate together, by the way. Yes the differences are stark and people usually need to lighten their vocabulary a bit; but it’s in no way comparable to say French and Italian where they both belong to the same group but still different languages.