I've had these saved up for a year or two, since I participated in a similar game elsewhere. Time to dust them off and see if y'all can guess which language is named by each rebus! Some are probably stupid easy, but at least some others probably aren't.

It would be nice of you to hide your answers, so that others can read the thread without fearing they will be spoiled.

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Onward with the second half...

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And finally, to make a baker's dozen, there's one more... one which I myself can neither remember nor figure out the answer to. Feel free to have a go! (If you guess correctly I will probably be able to tell that it's correct.)

extra

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*closes this tab so she doesn't try sneaking a glance to guess while she is driving down mountains*

1. Kalenglututlutut
2. Nimitz
3. Tubata
4. Paseljon
5. German ... Bactrian?
6. Farsi ?
7. Ainu
8. Burushaski
9. Kreyol Lwiziyen
10. Tigrinya
11. Swahili?
12. Anglo Sakson

Extra: Pierbulb

Yaali: you guessed correctly for #5 (the first one), and for all of 7 - 12.



I admit, #6 is rather a stretch, and if nobody gets it I will have nobody to blame but myself.

2. Plains Cree

quoting Travis B.:

2. Plains Cree

Incorrect, I'm afraid. You may be over-thinking it - #2 is, in principle at least, the simplest of them.

2. Carrier

3. Tubatulabal

1. Cantonese! (Can + two knees)

3. Tübatulabal
6. Faroese?

All four of you: correct! Woo

Only 4, 6, and the extra remain undeciphered by anyone.

The logic of #6, for which I apologize:
There are four clips of Beowulf. Which is written in Old English, or OE. Four OEs —> Faroese.

Extra: not a language nor an entirely phonetic rebus; the (Sapir-)Whorf hypothesis.

4. Hindi

#4. Chickasaw < Jigsaw Indian?

EXTRA: Pirahã

BINGO. Thank you.