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Troll_Whisperer on 04 February 2012
Kai Master said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
I can only say that in games with language selection screens the order is usually this: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian.

So I guess that's the order from biggest to smallest (in PAL territories, not counting Japan).


Your're maybe right, I know that since at least PS1 langage selection menue gives English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, sometimes Netherlands. But my memory says German before French, maybe my memory is wrong... but that's just in Europe, what is the langage selection menue in US : English and Spanish or just English ?

I don't know, I'm Spanish.

About the language order, you may be right, I'm not 100% sure about the order between French and German.



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Stefl1504 on 04 February 2012
Barozi said:
Stefl1504 said:
Barozi said:

nah he's just denying that his country doesn't have its own language but only a dialect :P
Also probably closer to high German than some other German dialects....

Swiss German however is kinda different.

Videogames in the European market have usually multiple languages on the disk. English, German, French being almost always included, followed by Italian, Spanish etc.

Austrian was in fact declared by some language congress as a different language than german, because of specifical gramatical structures in spoken language as well as additional/different vocabluary in written/spoken language, for naming several examples:

Austrian vs. German

Paradaiser - Tomate
Türken/Kukuruz - Mais
Eierschwammerl - Pfifferling
Erdäpfel - Kartoffel
Tixo - Tesafilm
Topfen - Quark
Marmelade - Konfitüre
Semmel - Brötchen

You can also get Marmelade in Germany but it won't be the same thing you get in Austria, you can also get Brötchen in Austria but it won't be the same you get in Germany



(I know most of the things above are just food but anyway ;P)

We have our own Austrian Dictionary, differentiating Spelling from german.

Austrian was declared it's own language because it has every aspect a language needs to be a language - different Dialects, its own historical developement, a differenting Grammar from other related languages, unic way of spelling, pronounciation and grammar, all given to the Austrian Language, it's the same as Schwiizerdütsch is not German, while Austrian and German are really similar languages and you probably don't have problems understanding one another, but thats just the same as slovene, croatian and other languages spoken in the former jugoslavia.

And you really think that makes it any different to other German dialects ?
Because everything you just said can be applied to them with ease.

*cough* no *cough*

there was some language congress that declared austrian a language by itself ;P



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Barozi on 05 February 2012
Stefl1504 said:
Barozi said:
Stefl1504 said:
Barozi said:

nah he's just denying that his country doesn't have its own language but only a dialect :P
Also probably closer to high German than some other German dialects....

Swiss German however is kinda different.

Videogames in the European market have usually multiple languages on the disk. English, German, French being almost always included, followed by Italian, Spanish etc.

Austrian was in fact declared by some language congress as a different language than german, because of specifical gramatical structures in spoken language as well as additional/different vocabluary in written/spoken language, for naming several examples:

Austrian vs. German

Paradaiser - Tomate
Türken/Kukuruz - Mais
Eierschwammerl - Pfifferling
Erdäpfel - Kartoffel
Tixo - Tesafilm
Topfen - Quark
Marmelade - Konfitüre
Semmel - Brötchen

You can also get Marmelade in Germany but it won't be the same thing you get in Austria, you can also get Brötchen in Austria but it won't be the same you get in Germany



(I know most of the things above are just food but anyway ;P)

We have our own Austrian Dictionary, differentiating Spelling from german.

Austrian was declared it's own language because it has every aspect a language needs to be a language - different Dialects, its own historical developement, a differenting Grammar from other related languages, unic way of spelling, pronounciation and grammar, all given to the Austrian Language, it's the same as Schwiizerdütsch is not German, while Austrian and German are really similar languages and you probably don't have problems understanding one another, but thats just the same as slovene, croatian and other languages spoken in the former jugoslavia.

And you really think that makes it any different to other German dialects ?
Because everything you just said can be applied to them with ease.

*cough* no *cough*

there was some language congress that declared austrian a language by itself ;P

I like your frequent use of the word "some" in front of "language congress", which kinda indicates that you don't take them seriously yourself or they're not really important at all.
Anyway in Northern Germany, Low German is an official language in many of the states and even taught in school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages

One step closer than Austrian or some other German dialects. In the end, every single "main" dialect could reach such a status. However, that wouldn't give the Austrian language more prestige, if all nations had like 10 official languages.


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Troll_Whisperer on 05 February 2012
RolStoppable said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Kai Master said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
I can only say that in games with language selection screens the order is usually this: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian.

So I guess that's the order from biggest to smallest (in PAL territories, not counting Japan).

Your're maybe right, I know that since at least PS1 langage selection menue gives English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, sometimes Netherlands. But my memory says German before French, maybe my memory is wrong... but that's just in Europe, what is the langage selection menue in US : English and Spanish or just English ?

I don't know, I'm Spanish.

About the language order, you may be right, I'm not 100% sure about the order between French and German.

US versions are usually English only, probably because most Spanish speakers in the USA are illegal immigrants.

By the way, Japan is NTSC territory.

Yeah, I meant that as 'PAL territories only, so not counting Japan'.

And I would've imagined they only use English in the USA. Anyway, they always dub the games in European Spanish and American Spanish speakers couldn't relate to our accent or vocabulary I imagine.



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Barozi on 05 February 2012
Kai Master said:
The question is : on Wiki, do Austrians add content in German or in Austrian ? Do they read the German wiki or do they have a Autrian wiki ? Maybe that would help me find out if Austria is a German language county or not.

Won't help you much since many dialects have its own Wikipedia page.
And I'm VERY sure that close to 99% of all Austrians use the German page. (To be honest I use the English one much more since it contains more information)

Also you added UK under English, even though they have for example Welsh, which is a language after all...
I'm not saying that you should be nitpicking, but that game developers will not include Welsh or "Austrian" into the game, because all Welsh people "should" understand English and all Austrian people "should" understand German.