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Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
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#32First thing I checked for was Equatorial Guinea with Spanish selected. It's there! The official languages make that easy. What's trickier is places where a lot of people speak English but it's not an official language. I'd like to go to Equatorial Guinea. It isn't heavily touristed and requires a visa. Nevertheless I searched it on YouTube and watched some videos and it sounds like an interesting place, and I liked t…
The inverse is also tricky: e.g. South Africa has 12 official languages, but that doesn't mean that most people speak all of them.
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#33Crimea is not Russia. It's Ukraine. Please get it right.
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#34Crazy how physical safety in the United States is so low, makes sense these days as cars are ubiquitous and frequently in accidents, and people might kill you for economic or mental health reasons.
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#35More localization can be added to highlight official languages with more granularity.
In Florida, I came across spanish speaking people who did not know English. That experience was surreal.
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#36They only speak English in Nigeria?
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#37First thing I checked for was Equatorial Guinea with Spanish selected. It's there! The official languages make that easy. What's trickier is places where a lot of people speak English but it's not an official language. I'd like to go to Equatorial Guinea. It isn't heavily touristed and requires a visa. Nevertheless I searched it on YouTube and watched some videos and it sounds like an interesting place, and I liked t…
The inverse is also tricky: e.g. South Africa has 12 official languages, but that doesn't mean that most people speak all of them.
Indeed. And at least one is missing. I just listened to a BBC podcast episode about Kaaps. https://player.fm/series/the-documentary-podcast-1301446/spe... The Wikipedia page seems to get it wrong. :(
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#38Crazy how physical safety in the United States is so low, makes sense these days as cars are ubiquitous and frequently in accidents, and people might kill you for economic or mental health reasons.
I was surprised by that too, but I don't think it makes sense at all. I'm curious as to what those categories are based off.
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#39The problem with using official languages and only going country-level is it excludes minority languages that still have tens of millions of speakers across multiple countries.
Yeah, India is done badly by the OP.
india has many languages and many state languages are unique to the state...
if i speak my state's language - highly likely i don't speak language of the neighboring state, but OP painted india with one broad brush
Re: Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
#40English gets you farther in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, etc., than it does in India.