The Western IslesBoard

English only on the RMB, Libertarial.

Nhoor wrote:

Why? Where is it?

Ardoyne, Belfast be there or be square.

Watambi wrote:

Can someone just blow up my house already?

Pretty sure we have some dynamite stashed somewhere... So sure... You just gotta pay me first. :P

Nhoor wrote:

Dynamite? Stew!

Nope, honest to god TNT. It's. Ot illegal if you... Or your dad has a license...

Libertarial wrote:

Ok, but I speak Spanish

Speak Chinese.

For the first time we have a sort of language barrier

This is an English only region. If you are going to speak in a foreign language on the RMB please also provide a translation

Hello everyone, I’m Stapolka which you can probably tell by my name and I’m new to the region and my nation is new as well but I’m not new to nationstates although I haven’t played in a while. I can’t wait to meet you all! :)

Dravidista wrote:

Hi. I'm new to this. How to post about my nation? Can anybody tell me?

You are planning to have a South India-based nation right?

Athara magarat wrote:

"What is this English you speak of? This is clearly a Nyssic only region. We are clearly speaking Nyssic language here."

What do you mean Nyssic we clearly only speak Ashkriishi here.

Watambi wrote:

Speak Chinese.

Speaking of this...actually how many nations here have like multiple languages that their government pretends are just "dialects" of one language even though they are often not even mutually unintelligible.

New aapelistan, that happens in Aprosia right? Or am I wrong? This sure does not happen in AM (the nation of weirdos where the number of languages spoken seems to increase every census). Anyone else whose gov has "they are all dialects of our state-mandated language" policy?

Watambi wrote:

I didn't understand half of that but uhhh yeah.

Sorry to bother you. I just have this habit of going from one topic to another. You mentioned Chinese, may or may not be one language depending on who you ask. So I was asking people in TWI if any of them have something like that.

Athara magarat wrote:

New aapelistan, that happens in Aprosia right? Or am I wrong? This sure does not happen in AM (the nation of weirdos where the number of languages spoken seems to increase every census). Anyone else whose gov has "they are all dialects of our state-mandated language" policy?

No, they are recognized as separate languages that are integral to the national identity of the federal subjects.

EDIT: However the language situation can be a bit complex... You have Severiók, which is the official language that most speak. However, it has both a written and a spoken variety and no one really speaks the written variety and the written variety is mostly used in official situations. The spoken variety is the one most people would speak, while being able to understand the written standard. Then there's the local languages, which have their own standard and their own dialects.

Watambi wrote:

Oh yeah i see now lol there are like 40 different versions of Chinese or something and all of them are completely different other than the writing system is the same lmao.

Depends on how you count and what you count as a different language and a dialect. The Chinese government claims that they are all dialects of Chinese, some consider the 10 or so dialect groups as separate languages and some consider a large portion of the dialects themselves to be separate languages. Heck, even the Mandarin of Beijing and Chongqing are rather different, even if you compare them as a non-speaker.

They have some common vocabulary as is to be expected but yea, a lot of it is different but from what I know, people can learn a different variety rather easily, they are related languages of course. And then there's Written Chinese or more like Written Mandarin, but written local varieties also exist, Cantonese being the most used local vernacular variety. They are used in more unofficial circumstances though.