as a geoguessr player this is actually very helpful and i sent it to our group chat

The source is the geoguessr subreddit

That's only because of the order they're in though. I wonder which ones is the most yes and most no without order.

That's like half the fun, trying to figure out what the languages might be, based on the other languages near them and just guessing what those letters might be in English or whatever other languages you know.

But yes, it absolutely is difficult, especially with many regions being demarked, which I've probably never heard of.

I tried learning Esperanto through Duolingo, but was a bit disappointed. It was still a bit inconsistent here and there; I was hoping for a 'perfect' language without exceptions.

Still think it's a great initiative though.

Esperanto also has the hideous ĥ which to my knowledge no other language has, but it’s not very common so it’s usually not something you can identify it by.

Frisia! It's a province of the Netherlands and I think their language is the closest one to English

If you like the West Frisian flag wait until you see North Frisia's coat of arms. That's a pot of (red?) grit there, and the motto is "Better dead than slave". Just don't try to conquer them and they're perfectly pleasant to be around with and share a state with, rather cooking grit than looking for trouble. (Not identical to the coat of the district of Nordfriesland, that's quite a bit more territory than North Frisia proper).

The heart shaped figures you are seeing, actually depict leaves of waterlilies.

I feel like 'chh' would only count when pronounced as part of one syllable/sound. Which in all your examples isn't the case. Of course, if someone is not at all familiar with the language they wouldn't be able to make that distinction. So the chart still wouldn't be helpful in that case.

Seriously.

Now I'm no scholar, but categorising English as part of the Celtic-branch is just ridoinkulous to me. Like-- that might have been true since before the Roman conquest, but Modern English is easily a West-Germanic branch, overlaid with Norman French, starting in 1066.

Its a solid language, but im a bit rusty with it.

Sorry, im leaving.

I'm in. Take my upvote!

"Am I seeing those in what I reading".

it's not "ø", "y", it's "øy" in combination (as a digraph?)

same as "th" further down not implying the N languages don't have "t" or "h", just that they don't have "th"

The "øy" is written without a space between the letters, which seems to mean that these letters occur together in words (more obvious example: "eau" leads into French).

I think that choice is more about "ieuw" as a whole, like "nieuw" in Dutch, not the separate 4 letters (like b G R v at the beginning)

I don't get your comment. The "w" isn't used in this graph as a single character.

Like yeah, the first split is about having a number of common letters from the Latin alphabet, so the right side is everything else: Cyrillic, Hebrew, …

A surprising amount of speakers of Spanish have an ř sound, usually in place of the normal trill. Specifically, it's present in New Mexican Spanish (spoken in New Mexico & Colorado), Amazonic Spanish/"Jungle Spanish" and influenced dialects (spoken in Ecuador, Peru, parts of eastern Bolivia, Paruguay, northern Chile, northern Argentinia, the Colombian highlands, and I think south Venezuela), Guatemala, and Costa Rica.

Specifically, the sound is called a voiced alveolar fricative trill. The IPA symbol is [r̝].

It's said to be due to imported influence from northern Spain (Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja), where the same sound is also present, and varyingly from the influence of various local Native American languages, some of which in the areas have/had the sound.

In some of those dialects, a pronunciation like [ʐ] may be used instead, which I think is similar to what's spelled ż/rz in Polish. The pronunciation can weaken further into [ɹ̝], which might be hard to distinguish from the r sound of some English speakers, or even more to [ɹ] which is similar to the r sound in some English speech.

Thankfully, European countries are only a few kilometers across, so even if you just eyeball it, it's usually not too far off.

AfaIk, Schweizer Hochdeutsch is not Schwizerdütsch, but a variety of standard German, with the replacement ß->ss.

Where does the diagram mention grammar?

No. For that to be the case you'd need to start pronouncing stuff correctly.

Where do you see a 'c with a line on it'? Starting from the 'latin' branch, you end up with Estonian saying no to everything except ä and õ.

But then it's correct? Swedish is in the "no" branch for ø.

The chart agrees with you..

Swedish is on the "no" branch of those letters