Surname Language Origin Quiz

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Surname Language Origin Quiz

by hudson

Created Nov 11, 2009 in Language
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	brendonb:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 06:28 GMT	1 point
	"Chinese" is misspelled.

	RS89:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 07:07 GMT	2 points
	"Jewish" is not a language.

	lalalala:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 07:27 GMT	1 point
	You know you live in New York when...

	Rients:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 09:44 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz, could be a bit harder. Language is misspelled though.

	JayHankEdLyonJr:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 17:42 GMT	3 points
	Love etymology. Brilliant idea, great quiz. Nominated and 5 whatever the hell those orange things are.

	Hamburger:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 19:43 GMT	6 points
	Ng is not Chinese. It is Hmong

	ulashima:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 15:25 GMT	3 points
	Actually Ng is used as the Cantonese form of the Mandarin Wu. About the others, Jansen is also found in Danish and possibly German too. Alexandersson can be an Icelandic surname also. In Iceland, the surnaming practice is putting a -sson after the father's name for boys and -dottir after the father's name for girls.

	Williams27:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 08:51 GMT	5 points
	"Scottish" would be country origin, not language origin. Do you mean Scots or Gaelic?

	phibbyfan:	Feb 8th, 2010 at 06:57 GMT	2 points
	You should add a Thai last name. Those are some of the longest I've ever seen! African ones would be fun, too.

	fazzini:	Feb 8th, 2010 at 20:05 GMT	3 points
	Spanish should be acceptable for Abreu as well...

	hellobob:	Jul 31st, 2010 at 16:05 GMT	3 points
	I'm pretty sure Vemulakonda is not Hindi, I would guess Telugu. From your source surnames.behindthenames.com, its origin is listed as "Hindu", a religion, not "Hindi", a language. The site goes on to say that "There is a city called Vemulakonda in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India." The language spoken in Andhra Pradesh is Telugu. I would not expect you to necessarily know that Telugu is spoken in Andhra Pradesh, but I would expect most people to know the difference between "Hindi" and "Hindu".