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@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ This section lists some of the most notable human languages. In the brackets the
- **Afrikaans** (~7 M native speakers, *Wat is jou naam?*): Young language, very similar to Dutch and English.
- **Danish** (~6 M native speakers, *Hvad er dit navn?*): Sounds a little bit like German and Dutch minus the pig sounds.
- **Dutch** (~25 M native speakers, Netherlands, [ena], *Wat is jouw naam?*): Similar to English but with added "grunting" pig sounds.
- **[English](english.md)** (~400 M native speakers, [eta], *What's your name?*): Most spoken language in the world (considering also non-native speakers), very simple grammar, fixed word order, no letters with accents, pronounces "r" as if "having a hot potato in mouth", awkward spelling of words, can't say the Spanish "j", is the universal world language of modern age, a must know for everyone.
- **[English](english.md)** (~400 M native speakers, [eta], *What's your name?*): Most spoken language in the world (considering also non-native speakers), very simple grammar, fixed word order, no letters with accents, pronounces "r" as if "having a hot potato in mouth", awkward spelling of words, can't say the Spanish "j", is the universal world language of modern age, a must know for everyone. Mutually intelligible with Scots.
- **Australian**: Very similar to UK.
- **Irish**: Most prominent feature is probably pronouncing "th" as "t" or "d", pronounce "r"s.
- **New Zealand**: Pronounce certain letters differently, e.g. "pen" sounds like "pin".
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- **German** (~100 M native speakers, [eni], *Wie heißt du?*): Hard and rough staccato rhythm sound, unpleasant, very long words, identifiable by characteristic rolling "r" and articles like "das", "der" etc.
- **Scots** (*Whit's yer name?*): Spoken in parts of Scotland, is mutually intelligible with English -- in fact it's often described as "English with funny spelling".
- **Swedish** (~10 M native speakers, [ean], *Vad heter du?*): Mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish.
- **Yiddish** (~4 M native speakers, *װי הײסטו, "Vi heystu?"*): Language spoken by [Jews](jew.md), developed in Jewish diaspora, an interesting "Frankenstein monster" mix of German, Hebrew and other languages, written right to left.
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