Can you name the languages from their word for 'friend'?

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Friend	Language
friend
朋友 péngyǒu
Freund or Freundin
صاحب (sahib)‌ or صديقي (sadiqi)
ami
barát
φίλος (philos)
友達 (tomodachi)
rafiki
amigo

Friend	Language
親舊 (chingu or jingu)
друг (droog)
amico
ven
amicus
vriend
दोस्त (dost)
venn
vän or kompis
hoaloha, makamaka, or aikāne
dost or doost
cara
mellon
kaibigan

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	kittendoodles:	May 16th, 2013 at 17:42 GMT		26 points
	Today I learned that Rafiki from the Lion King is named so because he's a friend to Simba and his father.

	socraticmethod:	May 16th, 2013 at 17:54 GMT		18 points
	And Simba means lion in Swahili. Nala means gift, also in Swahili. Mufasa means king in Manazoto. Disney likes the "obvious" names.

	CatStarcatcher:	May 16th, 2013 at 18:08 GMT		15 points
	Not sure whether to be embarrassed that I tried 'Nadsat' instead of Russian.

	prouvaire:	May 16th, 2013 at 18:18 GMT		10 points
	Oh boy. When "Magyar" wasn't accepted I gave up on that one... That'll teach me.

	hsver1887:	May 16th, 2013 at 18:48 GMT		1 point
	dost is also the turkish word for friend

	NikeSkylark:	May 16th, 2013 at 18:57 GMT		22 points
	i'm wondering why the korean isn't written in korean?

	waegooktom:	May 16th, 2013 at 19:05 GMT		12 points
	@NikeSkylark I was wondering the same. Yes, why is the Korean written in Chinese characters rather than Korean ones?...

	UnholyMudcrab:	May 16th, 2013 at 19:23 GMT		9 points
	Korean has two sets of characters: the hangul alphabet, which is what you are referring to when you say "Korean," and hanja, which are Chinese characters with Korean pronunciations. It's still considered Korean, it just looks like Chinese.

	707penguin:	May 16th, 2013 at 19:23 GMT		8 points
	Zero point one percent of quiztakers did not know that "friend" is the English word for "friend."

	caramba:	May 16th, 2013 at 19:29 GMT		17 points
	Stuck on my last one, tried "Kyrgyz", almost expecting it be right.

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	crimescenefairy:	May 16th, 2013 at 20:49 GMT		6 points
	It's pronounced droog, not drug :P

	Jeffhabfan:	May 16th, 2013 at 21:51 GMT		7 points
	I feel Magyar should really be accepted as well as Hungarian. While it is the Hungarian word for Hungarian, it is also commonly used as the name for the language in English as well. Just my opinion, though.

	dancastro:	May 16th, 2013 at 21:57 GMT		3 points
	@UnholyMudcrab: thanks, I didn't know that. I always thought that Korean had developed a fully alphabetic script (with the enormous advantage that you only have to learn some tens of symbols instead of thousands of them like in Chinese or, to a lesser extent, Japanese), but seemingly they couldn't get rid completely of the Chinese characters. Every day you learn something new in Sporcle.

	BrainyChica303:	May 16th, 2013 at 22:43 GMT		8 points
	You should add "mellon" in there ;) (Lord of the Rings joke...)

	cgrapes429:	May 16th, 2013 at 22:48 GMT		-2 points
	Wouldn't Chinese be the proper term rather than Mandarin? I always thought that Mandarin referred only a spoken form of the written Chinese language (which can be read by some other Chinese languages). Of course, I may not know what I'm talking about.

	Usmcfunkymunky:	May 16th, 2013 at 23:32 GMT		2 points
	@hsver1887 While the Turkish word for friend may be dost, it is not written in the devenagari alphabet, like Hindi.

	Salmon:	May 17th, 2013 at 02:37 GMT		5 points
	Norwegian should be accepted for "ven" in addition to Danish. There are currently two different written standards of Norwegian which are of considered equally as official in Norway and which are treated equal for all intents and purposes. Bokmål, the most popular of the two standards, spells the Norwegian word for friend "venn". However, Nynorsk, the other standard, spells the Norwegian word for friend "ven". Since both Bokmål and Nynorsk are equally as official or correct in terms of being standards for written Norwegian langauge, it is incorrect to say that "ven" is not a Norwegian word for friend.

	phibbyfan:	May 17th, 2013 at 04:07 GMT		2 points
	Anyone else type 'friend' for at least one of them, forgetting that it's not a translation quiz?

	hellofromUK:	May 17th, 2013 at 10:16 GMT		0 points
	Yes, for Mandarin should read Chinese as the language. Although Mandarin is regarded as the standard dialect of Chinese, it is still a dialect and the language is still known as Chinese. But for added confusion you have written in the question Chinese characters plus a Mandarin pronunciation.

	cheesyjon:	May 18th, 2013 at 19:58 GMT		1 point
	I guess I wasn't Hungary enough to get 100% on this quiz.

	fla:	May 19th, 2013 at 13:53 GMT		2 points
	"barát? But that looks nothing like any of the other words on this quiz! It must be some language entirely unrelated to any of the- ohhhhhh" types "Hungarian"

	HerzenSprechen:	May 19th, 2013 at 18:55 GMT		1 point
	Considering that none of the other forms have possessive pronouns attached, the Arabic should be: صديق (friend) and not صديقي (my friend)

	calm_incense:	May 20th, 2013 at 16:37 GMT		2 points
	@hellofromUK: Mandarin is not a dialect. It is a language. Northeastern, Beijing, Ji-Lu, Jiao-Liao, Zhongyuan, Lan-Yin, Jiang-Huai, and Southwestern (which includes Sichuanese) are all dialects of Mandarin. Yue (which includes Cantonese and Taishanese), Wu (which includes Shanghainese), Min (which includes Min Nan [which includes Hokkien and Teochew]), Hakka, Gan, and Xiang are all different languages––none of which are mutually intelligible with Mandarin, and many of which are so diverse that they themselves have "dialects" that are not mutually intelligible (especially Min and Wu, which are more like language families, akin to the Germanic languages and Romance languages). Sorry, but I am so tired of seeing this myth (which only exists for political reasons) being perpetuated. The immense diversity of Chinese languages (which are akin to European languages) should be celebrated, not swept under the rug and ignored.

	reepicheep:	May 22nd, 2013 at 04:56 GMT		1 point
	Using the Sino- characters for Korean is ridiculous. Technically they have been used, and you can really, really stretch and say that they're interchangable, but they're simply not. For a Korean answer, you really need to use the Hangul characters. To do otherwise is just silly, if not deliberately misleading.