Friday’s answers

Andrei and J Bloggs posed the questions, all but two of which stumped me.

If they stumped us all they can claim a virtual bunch of peonies by leaving the answers below.

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2 Responses to Friday’s answers

  1. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    04/12/2015 at 2:17 pm

    1) DD Smash

    2) Arthur Dent, The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy

    3) Due to my confused question asking I’ll accept both answers – Thurs has the sound of the soft “th” as in thing, and in Old Norse has the meaning of “Giant”

    4) The Last Supper

    5) Jupiter/Jove (hence: jeudi (Fr.), giovedi (It.) & jueves (Sp.) )

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  2. Andrei's avatar Andrei says:
    04/12/2015 at 2:18 pm

    (1) Where would you read of the “Tower of Babel”?

    This is found in the Holy Bible in Genesis 11 and explains the plethora of human languages

    (2) In what part of the world was the Glagolitic alphabet used? In what context would you most likely encounter it today?

    This script was developed in the Balkans for writing the Slavonic languages of that region – it was superseded by Cyrillic but remained in use in Roman Catholic liturgical texts e.g. the Missal which used Church Slavonic rather than the more usual Latin

    Croatia is the only region where the Mass in Church Slavonic still survives and its use is rare even there

    (3) What people speak the Magyar language?

    Hungarians

    (4) What would be the most likely mother tongue of a Walloon?

    French

    (5) Where is the Iron dialect spoken and what language family group does it belong to?

    This is the major dialect of Ossetian spoken in the Caucasus and the only language spoken in both the North and South Caucasus – it is related to Iranian -there are about 500,000 native speakers of it

    Another dialect of Ossetian was spoken in Hungary but has been lost

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