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[Hunting4Treasure]

[Hunting4Treasure]

[ambskunk]

It looks like Hawaii should be located off the edge of the card. Its position relative to New Caledonia would also mean it couldn't be on the other side of the card.

There are a few things that bother me about the card:
The clue refers to 'going native' implying that we need to be looking at the native or indigenous people of each country.

Thats fine for countries like Russia and Japan where pretty much the whole population is 'native' and speak a native language. But when you get to former colonial countries that may have a population comprising of many tribes or groups (like Liberia - 16 indigenous ethnic groups according to wiki) and no dominant native language it gets tricky. These countries commonly have an official language that is European and you'd hardly call native.

My favourite is New Calendonia which wiki states isn't even a country but an overseas territory.

I was thinking that the answer may come from ordering the letters of countries/languages/something by the number of people in each country speaking the (dominant?) native language.

[Hunting4Treasure]

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word 'native' is 'Indians'. This is probably a stupid question, but do all countries have 'native Indians'? Something else I never thought about before, but why do we call Native Americans 'Indians'? May be a history lesson in there somewhere, but was it first thought that they originally came from India or the West Indies?

OK, I got off-track, but 'Indians' are still running around in in my mind... and they're getting restless!

[ambskunk]

I'm pretty sure that only North America has native Indians (well maybe apart from India ). In most other countries they are refered to as indigenous people. I have no idea why they are called Indians though.

This has got to be the way of seperating the US from the UK (or is it really Wales, Scotland, Nth Ireland and England? - they are considered seperate countries aren't they?), although of course there are many different tribes of native indians. It may be the largest tribe (Navajo I think) that we are after for the US.

[UKver2.0]

[Hunting4Treasure]

UKver2.0, ROFLMAO!
Now that you mention it, that's what I was taught, too... I just forgot.
This card is driving me nuts-ier!

[echidna]

really, just

Anyway...

[oliverkeers13]

Am I mistaken in thinking that all modern languages derive from Sanscrit? I seem to remember that most European, African, and Asian languages come from it, and maybe they all do.

[echidna]

[doublecross]

I think we should steer away from languages themselves and towards something like echidna's idea of the countries in their own language.

I have a couple of differences:

[ramsfan]

Your list has the feel of being there or nearly there. If you use i for israel instead of y you can get english language. However after playing around with most users number one etc I've got nowhere. According to wikipedia South Koreans call South Korea, Namhan. According to Larousse it's called Daehan Minjuk.

[Bendover]

I have been trying to think of"some kind language" that could be common with all these countries. it is not

[Dranioth]

The odd thing is that the answer would have to be somthing in common with ONLY these countires, correct? It's for this reason that It couldn't be a spoken language, because, well, We speak the good languageses in Canada.

[Stratman]

If this is an anagram of some kind, which doesn't seem to have been ruled out yet...
Maybe the choice of countries is simply based on the necessity of getting the correct letters for the anagram, which would make the choice somewhat random, which is the way it appears.