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Post by principled on Mar 27, 2011 12:30:29 GMT 1
With today being census day, I thought we ought to see which of the posters should be in our census pub quiz team. WITHOUT using the Internet or any other reference source, state which country or area the following languages belong. 1)Akan 2)Amharic 3)Tagalog 4)Igbo 5)Lingala 6)Pahari 7)Sinhala 8)Tigrinya 9) Yoruba 10) And the most difficult-English! No cheating, OK  . P |
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 27, 2011 12:34:42 GMT 1
Yoruba - Nigeria?
Sinhala - Ceylon?
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Post by Progenitor A on Mar 27, 2011 12:35:14 GMT 1
1)Akan -London
2)Amharic-London
3)Tagalog-London
4)Igbo-London
5)Lingala-London
6)Pahari-London
7)Sinhala-London
8)Tigrinya-London
9) Yoruba- er...umm..er.London
10) And the most difficult-English!-Outside London
Can I be Captain (capuchio) ;D
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 27, 2011 12:36:08 GMT 1
Karma for that, nay!
What a wag you are!
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Post by principled on Mar 27, 2011 14:57:31 GMT 1
Bloomin 'eck Nay, how do you always know the answers? Based on your performance, I've decided to promote you to reserve captain as your answer to question 10 was a little too general. Unfortunately, English as a majority language is now confined to a few rural outposts far off the beaten track or, in dialect form, on the other side of Hadrian's wall or Offa's Dyke. Still, help is at hand in the schools, where English may become the compulsory foreign language in the National Curriculum! On a serious note, I find it impossible to believe that such a diverse range of first languages does not impinge greatly on the academic progress of schools where there is a high immigrant population. For my sins, I have taught students whose second language was English, BUT there were either one or two in a class or the whole class were from a single overseas country. In addition, the students also had a certain level of competency in English. Where one starts in a class where 10 or 20 different mother tongues abound, I haven't got a clue.  P Marchesa. I'll post the correct answers tomorrow. |
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Post by principled on Mar 29, 2011 19:48:46 GMT 1
For those who didn't cheat, the answer to my pub census questions are: 1)Akan-the principal native language of Ghana, 2)Amharic-spoken in North Central Ethiopia 3)Tagalog-A first language spoken by a third of the population of the Philippines 4)Igbo- The native language of the Igbo people primarily located in southeastern Nigeria 5)Lingala-Spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 6)Pahari-group of Indic languages spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas, from Nepal in the east to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh in the west 7)Sinhala-Mother tongue of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka 8)Tigrinya-Spoken by the Tigrinya people in central Eritrea 9) Yoruba-Native tongue of the Yoruba people spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo 10) And the most difficult-English!- Previously answered I think the bottle of bubbly must go to Marchesa, who got two more than I did! BTW, who decided which languages were sufficiently widely spoken to require guidance notes for the census completion? I only ask because I had a lodger from Vanuatu on Sunday who speaks Lemerig and I couldn't find a translation. Luckily for him I am the only other fluent speaker of the language so was able to translate! P |
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Post by speakertoanimals on Mar 29, 2011 20:01:06 GMT 1
Date from the last census?  |
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Post by principled on Mar 29, 2011 20:47:22 GMT 1
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