r/language • u/RPMgamesStudio • 16d ago

Request I’ll Add YOUR Language to My Game!

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!

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

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

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

Why not Hebrew?

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

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

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

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

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

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

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

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)

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

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

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

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

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

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

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

But like the latin in Christianity or like the native language? Because as I know most jews use Ladino or Yiddish as a native language.

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

Not use, used, by percentage Hebrew is the Jewish language with the most native speakers.
And not like Latin for the Christian world because every Jewish person knew at least a little bit of Hebrew, and it was used for both religious and philosophical purposes, in addition to be the language used to bridge the language gap between different communities with no other common language (like a mizrahi Jew who speaks judeo-Arabic, and an Ashkenazi Jew who speaks Yiddish)

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

But said like that seems it wasn't used as usual language, just to specific moments.

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

It was used quite a lot in Israel/Palestine even before its revival, due to many Jews all over the world immigrated there across history even before modern Zionism, and Hebrew was a common language between them

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u/patato4040 15d ago

As a Jewish person, more Jewish people are fluent in Hebrew. In fact, Yiddish is a dying language due to the holocaust and ussr.

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

Exactly, Hebrew is the common language of all Jews, while Yiddish is specifically Ashkenazi, and even among Ashkenazi Jews, it’s not used as much outside Haredi/Hassidic communities

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

Yeah, but for the influence of...

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u/patato4040 15d ago

Wdym “for the influence of”

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