Can you name the languages in which speakers of different but related languages can readily understand each other? by Papua_New_Guinea

Can you name the languages in which speakers of different but related languages can readily understand each other?

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Source: Sourced list of mutually intelligible languages
You must write all the languages of each group of mutually intelligible languages.
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Language group	Languages	Number of languages
Austronesian		2
Polynesian		2
Slavic		2
Germanic		3
Bantu		2
Slavic		4
Germanic		2
Romance		3
Slavic		2
Turkic		2
Germanic		2
Slavic		3

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Mutually Intelligible Quiz

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Created Oct 16, 2010 in Language
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	Papua_New_Guinea:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 14:48 GMT	2 points
	let me know if there are any not included above

	finnoztoffee:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 18:01 GMT	1 point
	I speak Indonesian reasonably well and it is understood in Malaysia. I think it became a national language in Indonesia in 1949-50, and was based on modern Malay. I also think they are more similar than Swedish and Danish for example. Maybe research Icelandic as well, and its similarity to Norwegian. Good quiz!

	finnoztoffee:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 18:04 GMT	1 point
	oh, and maybe work on the instructions a bit, so you know that you have to enter all of the countries, or perhaps just accept one. cheers

	chriskotx:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 18:17 GMT	1 point
	I'd like to understand what differentiates between mutually intelligible languages and just differing dialects of a language. For example, why are American English and British English considered the same language but English and Scots are not ? Also, I've always understood it to be true that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish well, but Spanish speakers can't understand Portuguese very well.

	finnoztoffee:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 18:26 GMT	1 point
	chriskotx... People in Scotland mostly speak English, but Scots or Scottish or Gaelic refers to pre-anglo language which still exists but is spoken by few, like in Wales and Cornwall, where they are official and important, yet are still minority languages in their own countries/regions. Portuguese and Spanish are related and have many similarities but not mutually intelligible. Swedish and Danish are more similar. Where's the line? Don't know. It's like at what length does a boat become a ship?

	Martin:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 19:15 GMT	2 points
	Scots and Scottish Gaelic are two completely different languages, the former is a Germanic and the latter a Celtic language.

	Papua_New_Guinea:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 20:11 GMT	3 points
	Thanks finnoztoffee, I added Indonesian-Malay but I don't think Icelandic is that similar to the other three. I also added a game note to clarify things a bit.

	naali:	Jan 9th, 2011 at 13:42 GMT	2 points
	That's right, finnoztoffee, Icelandic and Norwegian are not closely enough related to be mutually understandable. Written Icelandic and written Faroese are mutually understandable though.

	emilkr:	Jan 24th, 2011 at 22:48 GMT	1 point
	@naali: Correct on Icelandic and Norwegian... but Icelandic and Faroese are not as mutually intelligible as Norwegian and Danish. @Papua_new_guinea: It is, to say the least, debateable whether to consider Scots a language.