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OK, I can make this list ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/13273) in to a contest of course! Rules are simple:

1. Add a game of which the BGG-title is in a language not already presented in this Geeklist.
2. NO alternate names, the name of the game as listed on BGG is the language. Example: I Coloni di Katan does not count; it's listed as Settlers of Catan.
3. Existing languages only; please provide a translation if you can. No names. So no ZERTZ, no Caylus.
4. Titles that can mean something in different languages don't count. Only the original intended title counts.
5. No dialect.
6. The entry that remains the last entry for more than 48 hours gets 5 GG.
7. I can add rules if I forget one (I will, most likely).

Please provide translations of the titles if you can.

I'll start with a few easy ones.
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1. Board Game: The Settlers of Catan [Average Rating:7.62 Overall Rank:45]
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2. Board Game: The Scepter of Zavandor [Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:189]
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The Scepter of Zavandor
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Which make no sense anymore as the game is out in English now...
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Aaargh! :shake:

Well, that's the problem with this list; it might look very very stupid in a few years.

Although it does show my translation was correct. :what:
3. Board Game: De Ontembare Stad [Average Rating:6.12 Overall Rank:2758]
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The Indomitable City
4. Board Game: Gabula u Gabeli [Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
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Trouble in Gabela
5. Board Game: De Bellis Antiquitatis [Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:520]
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"On the wars of antiquity", I think
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I always thought this was "Beautiful antiques". Silly me... :D
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:p while here I was always 'thinkin' IT as "the ANCIENT 'grumblers'!" or 'belly-ache`rs' eh? :surprise:
6. Board Game: El Grande [Average Rating:7.98 Overall Rank:10]
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The Great
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I thought that this was Spanish for "The Grande".
Dane Peacock
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I think it translates as "El Big"
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It could be losely translated as "the big guy" or "the big place."
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Where's my smiley when I need him? :D
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7. Board Game: Terrain Vague [Average Rating:6.67 Overall Rank:2934]
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Both words in the title exist in English but you would call it "Vague Terrain" if the title was English...
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Avec la mer du Nord pour dernier terrain vague...

Le Plat Pays - Jacques Brel
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I was hoping for Montgolfière (hot air baloon)
8. Board Game: Il Principe [Average Rating:6.65 Overall Rank:702]
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 Italian: The Prince
9. Board Game: Tahuantinsuyu [Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:444]
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 Inca
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I guess Inca isn't exactly correct. The language is spoken by the Quechua people of the west coast of South America. Tahuantinsuyu means "Land of the Four Regions".
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There's at least one other Quechua title in the 'Geek, too--Rumis.
10. Board Game: Go [Average Rating:7.81 Overall Rank:36]
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Japanese.
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The game is Chinese. The name is Japanese.
Should read, WeiQi. ;)
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Japanese. Chinese is "wei-chi," Korean is "baduk."

The real Japanese name is "igo," but it is usually called just "go." I'm not sure how common "igo" vs. "go" is in Japan, but in the US it's always just plain "go."
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:D YOU 'got' yer "GO" in my 'peanut butter'!
uh-uhhh YOU 'got' yer 'peanut butter' in my "GO"!
NOW, '2' "great tastes" that are combined together in: "Reese's 'Peanut Butter~ GO'!"
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actually the game is presumably chinese. (what constitutes chinese here? the game would be older than most forms of a self-aware chinese nation).

chinese is weíqí (hanyu pinyin transliteration), wei-ch'i (wade-giles transl.) etc. other variants surely exist.

japanese is go (oh! the convenience of a widely agreed-upon transl.-system, hepburn by the way).

korean is hard. everybody pretymuch transliterates anything as he/she likes. and. i. mean. it. so be prepared for anything from paduk (mccune-reischauer system), baduk (the official transl., they will probably continue to change it every few years and most koreans do not care anyway) and badook and bahduk and bhadook and whatever comes to your mind. there probably are also french systems who transliterate padouk or something. i hate korean.
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Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these.
11. Board Game: Shogi [Average Rating:7.28 Overall Rank:443]
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12. Board Game: Jambo [Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:157]
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Oh! And I was going to add Sisimizi.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/540

(supposedly means ants in Swahili)
13. Board Game: Chess [Average Rating:7.05 Overall Rank:211]
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Jon, isn't Chess the English or at least European word for the game? I understood that it possibly derived from the Perisan word Shah but that it wasn't actually called Chess in that language. Not that I have an alternative Persian game to put forward... :)
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bye bye chess.
14. Board Game: Ostindiska Kompaniet [Average Rating:4.97 Overall Rank:5192]
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Ostindiska Company

(and the image was uploaded by Aldie - does that get bonus gg :-) )
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Ostindiska = East Indian?
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Correct. -et at the end of Kompani equals the in English, so it´s The East Indian Company.
15. Board Game: Hnefatafl [Average Rating:6.51 Overall Rank:1230]
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 "Hnefatafl" - Old Norse for "King's Table"
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Hnefatafl translates to "fist-board", actually (cool name!). The root of the word is "hnefi" meaning fist ("näve" in modern day Swedish) and "tafl" meaning board or table.
16. Board Game: Deuce [Average Rating:4.50 Unranked]
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I'm glad you posted this. I've been wondering how to play this game since I got a copy of Paari last year.

Incidentally, it's also highlighted that this is a duplicate entry with Paari.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/13674

The Paari entry doesn't have as good a description as the Deuce entry.:laugh:
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Yes it is. Heh, after spending half an hour listening to a French person explain to me what a "larry" is...
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? English is already in the list.
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:) I didn't count this one.
17. Board Game: Yut Nori [Average Rating:5.39 Unranked]
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..and a brilliant example of why an official, consistent, easy to use transliteration of korean is necessary.

this game *should* really be transcribed as "yut" (mccune-reischauer transliteration)or maybe "ywus" (yale transl.)

nyout seems completely unmotivated to me. or some korean ad hoc transliterating his native dialect?
18. Board Game: Fighting Serpents [Average Rating:7.00 Unranked]
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 Does this count? Like someone says about Perudo below, Kolowis Awithlaknannai was here before the Geek...

Fighting Serpents is a rough translation of "Kolowis Awithlaknannai", a game of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
19. Board Game: Mehen [Average Rating:5.19 Unranked]
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'Coiled one'
20. Board Game: The VANITPL8 Game [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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 L337!

(vanityplate for all non leet readers)
21. Board Game: Tongiaki [Average Rating:6.33 Overall Rank:902]
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 Polynesian:
It's the name for the boats.
22. Board Game: Afrikan tähti [Average Rating:4.41 Overall Rank:5683]
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 Afrikan tähti - Finnish for "Star of Africa"
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Strange that it is Afrikan tähti, not Afrikan Tähti.
23. Board Game: Angus: Batalhas Medievais [Average Rating:6.87 Overall Rank:2634]
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 Brazilian Portuguese for "Medieval Battles"
24. Board Game: Metropolis [Average Rating:6.57 Overall Rank:1245]
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means Capital City
25. Board Game: Hai Lu Kong Zhan Qi [Average Rating:5.10 Unranked]
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 I thought I'd better add this so that there'd be a genuine Chinese title on this Geeklist.

hacksword is right: Go (or Igo) is the Japanese name of the game. In Chinese, it is WeiQi.
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Never said Go wasn't a genuine Chinese game; only that it wasn't a genuine Chinese title.
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and the title means something like "War Chess on Sea, Land and in the Air"
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Or you could've opted for the obvious XiangQi (elephant board game).
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I'd add Perudo, but BGG insist calling it Liar's Dice... :what:
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Languages already in this GeekList:

1. Afrikaans
2. Akkadian
3. Algonquian
4. Anglo-Saxon
5. Arab
6. Arpitan
7. Aryan
8. Breton
9. Burmese
10. Cantonese
11. Catalan
12. Croatian
13. Czech
14. Danish
15. Dharug / Eora
16. Dutch
17. Egyptian
18. English
19. Esperanto
20. Finnish
21. French
22. Frisian
23. German
24. Greek
25. Hawaiian
26. Hebrew
27. Hindi
28. Hungarian
29. Icelandic
30. Inuktitut
31. Irish Gaelic
32. Italian
33. Japanese
34. K'ekchi
35. Kannada
36. Kiowa
37. Korean
38. Lakhota
39. Latin
40. Lenni Lenape
41. Lithuanian
42. Luganda
43. Malagasy
44. Malay
45. Mandarin
46. Maori
47. Mongolian
48. Nahuatl
49. Norwegian
50. Ojibwe
51. Persian
52. Polish
53. Portuguese
54. Quechua
55. Russian
56. Sami
57. Sanskrit
58. Scottish Gaelic
59. Serbian
60. Sinhala
61. Spanish
62. Swahili
63. Swedish
64. Swiss-German
65. Tagalog
66. Tamil
67. Thai
68. Tongan
69. Tupi-Guarani
70. Turkish
71. Vietnamese
72. Welsh
73. Wiradjuri
74. Yavapai / Yuman
75. Yiddish
76. Yolngu
77. Zulu / Isizulu
78. Zuni

I stopped deleting entries because some are very interesting.
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After 78 languages & 12 days ddubin won the contest! Congrats and thanks to everyone for playing!
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This was great fun -- thanks very much, Bas.

Dave
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JeremiahClayton wrote:
I will give a GeekCent to anyone who can find a game in Esperanto. :p


There is "Sokoj", an Esperanto version of Ploughshares...
http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoj
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