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SilentlyBroken · Boot Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 37

[hex set] #202 - Mother Tongue

**Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:07 pm

c1023 · Boot Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Hampshire, UK

I'm not sure of the answer, but:

**Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:55 pm

SpinneNetz · Boot Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 19

Yeah, its hard to see from the scan, but I can make out:

nandita

Does anyone know what the answer field looks like yet? Are we looking for one common answer or multiple ones?

**Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:40 pm

doublecross

Single answer, headed 'What is the answer?'. Very helpful!

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:48 am

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doublecross

Is there a 25th country in the Pacific, just below and to the left of the 204 for getting the hex set?

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:17 pm

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hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

My initial thought was that it was indicating some sort of Language family (wikipedia.org); however, the obvious glaring case against this is the inclusion of Japan with the other Indo-European languages (among others).

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:01 pm

nandita

Does anyone think that there may be some kind of Tower of Babel connection? The idea of there being a mono-genesis of language? That was my first thought when I saw the card...

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:07 pm

SpinneNetz · Boot Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 19

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:28 pm

SilentlyBroken · Boot Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 37

Tried:

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:05 pm

modern_hero · Decorated Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 159 Location: UK

could it be the root of the languages? tried

**Posted:** Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:17 pm

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Stratman

Thought I had found something here...
Havent had time to read it all yet

http://www.grsampson.net/Q_PIE.html

tried

**Posted:** Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:43 pm

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unclean · Kilroy Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 2 Location: UK

Following on from the previous post, I have also tried:

**Posted:** Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:08 pm

Stratman

Hmm...I had taken this to mean a search for a single ancient language from which the languages of the marked countries derived. I now think that is unlikely - it is certainly not what mother tongue means...a person has a mother tongue - usually the language they learn first.
From Wikipedia (mother tongue)
Definition based on Origin: the language(s) one learned first (the language(s) in which one has established the first long-lasting verbal contacts).
Definition based on internal identification: the language(s) one identifies with/as a native speaker of;
Definition based on external indentification: the language(s) one is identified with/as a native speaker of, by others.
Definition based on competence: the language(s) one knows best.
Definition based on function: the language(s) one uses most.
Maybe we have been barking up the wrong tree.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:58 am

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Fuseunderground · Decorated Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 151

If you take the country of origin of the languages (mother country?)
'I' for Ireland 'A' for Arabia (or Arab lands)
'N' for Netherlands

This reduces the amount of countries
Then with the first letters you can spell
'Singular Speak' unfortunately with a 'J' left over.

Whether this points to Japan,
or is going in completely the wrong direction. Who knows?

I hope this helps someone.

Rich

**Posted:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:34 am