Country Names in Turkish Quiz

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Country Names in Turkish Quiz

by ulashima

Created Nov 20, 2009 in Language
Featured Nov 20, 2010
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	cappy:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 04:46 GMT	57 points
	This quiz is just Şili.

	slick7fool:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 04:51 GMT	7 points
	can't tell which i missed, it's all red!

	julie10:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 05:15 GMT	8 points
	cool quiz!!

	JayHankEdLyon:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 05:21 GMT	38 points
	I swear, I have no idea how I knew that was Egypt. No recollection of where I learned it or even if I had, but I typed it in instantly and bam. I love how the brain decides to keep things like that under wraps until the opportunity arrives.

	ryder889:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 05:55 GMT	6 points
	for knowing zero Turkish, I think 18/30 is pretty damn good.

	Mad_Hatter:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 05:57 GMT	7 points
	26/30. Great quiz. I found very interesting that some of the names in turkish are very close to the portuguese ones.

	NightOwl:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 06:19 GMT	31 points
	Interesting. It seems the closer the countries are to Turkey, and the more ancient, the less recognizable their names to the English speaker. I assume these names go back to antiquity.

	jefe_:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 06:51 GMT	1 point
	@ryder I know zero Turkish as well, but I'm slapping myself in the face for only getting 18. After seeing the answers, most of the ones I missed prompted a "Duh, how did I not get that?"

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	Niques:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 07:53 GMT	10 points
	Can thank having to play Turkish "Risk" for a couple of those.

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	CSwe:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 09:46 GMT	2 points
	Fun quiz! Makes me feel like I'm smart because I got 20/30 and I don't know any Turkish ;)

	EmYanks2001:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 13:07 GMT	-2 points
	got 18 as well but 2nd time around, since 1st time i wasnt logged in.. I think I got 12 first time... I gotta remember some of these to impress my friend whos turkish (turkish decent, wasn't born there or anything)

	EmYanks2001:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 13:13 GMT	6 points
	did anyone else try kazakhstan/kyrgyzstan?? (both of which I still have to google for the spelling -- shame on me!!)

	shawnoc:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 14:04 GMT	32 points
	But how do you say Turkey in Turkish?

	icing:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 14:20 GMT	13 points
	Really terrific quiz, ulashima! Very challenging. I must have tried every country in the world that ended in -stan for the Yunanistan clue - never, ever would have guessed Greece!

	dancastro:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 15:10 GMT	20 points
	Excellent quiz! It's very interesting to try to guess also the origin of the names. I think Karadag for Montenegro directly translates "black mountain". Portekiz seems to derive from the demonym "português" rather than from Portugal. Arjantin is probably from French (l'Argentine). Yunanistan must be "land of the Ionians" (not of Greeks or Hellenes like in other languages). What really surprised me is Isviçre. It doesn't seem to stem from the German Schweiz nor from the French Suisse, but (quite unpredictably) from the Italian Svizzera.

	dancastro:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 15:21 GMT	15 points
	@shawnoc: it's Türkiye. Probably it wasn't included as being too easy (although also Kanada or Kamerun are).

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	ezois:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 17:47 GMT	4 points
	I can now recognise the Turkish word for united. Unfortunately I forgot United Arab Emirates is plural.

	YaleBird:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 17:53 GMT	11 points
	@Yeezy: Arabic?! ARABIC?!? I am Turkish though, so...yeah. And to be fair Ottoman Turkish did use the Arabic alphabet, and the language does borrow heavily from Arabic in vocabulary (though not grammar). Karadag does indeed translate literally as "Black/Dark Mountain". And Turkish does borrow extensively from European languages for country names: Germany is "Almanya" (Allemagne), and England is "Ingiltere" - those might have made better additions than Canada and Cameroon. Good quiz!

	charolastra:	Nov 20th, 2010 at 18:20 GMT	3 points
	I have to thank my one miserable year of college Arabic for helping me know Egypt and Jordan, since they're pretty much the same in Turkish.