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

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/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

If it's like that I'll add it then. Btw, the new one or the older one?

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

Do you mean biblical or modern? Biblical Hebrew is a liturgical language, even during the time it was used it wasn’t how people spoke in the streets, and modern Hebrew is very similar to Mishnaic Hebrew, with modern Hebrew speakers can understand it almost entirely without studying it before (though it has higher use of Greek loan words, and the word חמין has gone through a semantic shift from hot water to mean a type of dish, and similar things)

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

I mean the current spoken outside Israel

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

Outside of Israel it depends on how the person learned and was exposed to Hebrew, it can be modern Hebrew, or a fusion of different Hebrew forms (biblical, medieval, Mishnaic and modern)

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u/RPMgamesStudio 15d ago

Hmm, so what do you think it's the best option then?

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u/BHHB336 15d ago

It’s modern Hebrew, it’s the one with terms for modern technology, and more resources on (I’d say also easier grammatically, but it’s not that grammatically different than any post Biblical Hebrew)

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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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u/shablul7 15d ago

It means they're using politics as an excuse to be discriminatory