After my ‘virtual travel’ fun of the previous blog, I decided to add language logging to IsItFriday, and write a script to extract all the languages and variants from the data. Since writing it, there have been requests for the following languages. I don’t know why, but I found Egyptian Arabic the most surprising.

It should be noted that the language request has two parts - the language, and then the variant or country. The second part is optional, so where for example “de” is specified, I call that “German - Standard” but there may also be “de-de” which is “German - Germany”. They are essentially the same variant, while “de-ch” or Swiss German could be different.

Anyway… the list…

• English: 1372
  • Standard: 226
  • United States: 904
  • Britain: 216
  • Canada: 9
  • Australia: 7
  • New Zealand: 5
  • Ireland: 2
  • South Africa: 1
• German: 293
  • Standard: 92
  • Germany: 191
  • Switzerland: 6
  • Austria: 4
• Swedish: 253
  • Standard: 246
  • Sweden: 7
• Dutch: 116
  • Standard: 103
  • Belgium: 10
  • Netherlands: 3
• Polish: 67
  • Standard: 61
  • Poland: 6
• Finnish: 64
  • Standard: 63
  • Finland: 1
• Estonian: 40
  • Standard: 40
• Russian: 37
  • Standard: 29
  • Russia: 8
• Spanish: 37
  • Standard: 9
  • Argentina: 16
  • Spain: 6
  • Colombia: 5
  • Mexico: 1
• Portuguese: 23
  • Brazil: 23
• French: 19
  • Standard: 16
  • Canada: 2
  • Belgium: 1
• Norwegian (Bokmål): 18
  • Standard: 17
  • Norway: 1
• Ukranian: 16
  • Standard: 16
• Danish: 13
  • Standard: 13
• Japanese: 11
  • Standard: 11
• Norwegian: 7
  • Standard: 7
• Slovenian: 5
  • Standard: 5
• Hebrew: 5
  • Standard: 5
• Turkish: 4
  • Standard: 3
  • Turkey: 1
• Icelandic: 4
  • Standard: 4
• Italian: 3
  • Standard: 3
• Hungarian: 3
  • Standard: 1
  • Hungary: 2
• Arabic: 3
  • Egypt: 3
• Chinese: 2
  • China: 2
• Romanian: 2
  • Standard: 2
• Czech: 2
  • Standard: 2
• Norwegian (Nynorsk): 1
  • Norway: 1
• Greek: 1
  • Standard: 1

There were a couple of intriguing requests, once for the language rs1-5e889a0ed96 and one for en-securid. Anyone know anything about those? I assume they’re some sort of encrypted communication protocols?