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[Lilian]

has anybody come up with a reason why the countries fading to blue

[Rand0m]

Bored designer?

Lots of pretty, but not terribly useful, language maps here. (Don't think anyone's posted that link yet?)

[ramsfan]

I've been looking at country names in their native language as listed in Larousse. Possibles were mainly arabic because there's a common word which I presume means country or republic and starts with a useful J. I've left the list at home and will add later in case anybody can find a subtle variation of any of them.

[Rand0m]

[doublecross]

I like your spec, jonthefay - a reverse engineering approach.

The 29/30 letters may not spell a language but ask to name a language or a similar question or statement (the initials of countries in their own languages nearly spells SUM THE NUMBER OF SINGLE LANGUAGES, only requiring an O to be an F, for example). That tends to be the way that these cards work, but there are always exceptions.

[kalisco]

My visual puzzle approach produced nothing, so tried this next.

http://www.ethnologue.com/language_code_index.asp has a list of 3-letter codes for every language in the world.
So looked up the codes that could spell a word that meant 'Mother'.

This is what it produced for my 3 guesses today, which have been logged at http://www.ukinetmedia.com/perplexcity/

[jonthefay]

[sirichj]

Ok guys if we're going to try to form an anagram as I asked previously what letters are we using ?

For the UK do we use U and K, just U, or maybe E, S, W, I for England Scotland Wales and Ireland? Or should we use GB for Great Britain ?

Same problem for America, do we use A or US or USA ?

Same problem for the 'federations' in the list, do we include FO for 'federation of' or just the country letter itself?

If you can see my point the number of letters could jumo from 29 or 30 to however many you want it to be.

This is the problem I have with the anagram route there seems to be so many ambiguous letters that you can pretty much choose what letters you want to fit what you think the question may be.

I'm not saying that the anagram route is wrong, I'm just asking if we're going to try and do this what definitive set of letters do we try and arrange?

[sirichj]

Just to put my mind at rest and going off on a tangent again could someone please try

[pjm1974]

[Lilian]

ok
doublecross if you rephrase it a little you get the single sum number of languages which by the spread sheet turns out to be 17 or 18 i think the Irish speak gaelic makes 18 that information from the spread sheet only(un checked)slightly concernd about the F O change bit but your anagram is close to being to a proper sentence than we've had so far

[JayJay]

Well Done

miamo_tutti

For being the first solver... although probably never been on Unfication and may not ever read the congrats ... ah well

(No posts from him on here yet! only solved 1/2 hour before this post)

[sackofpotatoes]

I just emailed miamo_tutti hoping for a little hint... I'll post any reply he sends here, or ask him to do so. Hopefully a few hundred other people haven't also spammed him too.

[domroberts]

New line of thought

[domroberts]

SCAN of that