Wikipedia:500th language pool

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500th language

This is a pool for guessing when the 500th language Wikipedia will be created, and what that language will be. This is not a serious pool. List of Wikipedias will be used to determine the winners. There will be two winners: the one who comes closest to the correct date, and the one who first predicts the correct language. The winners will be entitled to contribute mightily to the new edition. Losers are expected to contribute even more to that edition.

The current number of languages with active Wikipedia editions is 330. You can see an up to date figure on m:List of Wikipedias. The pool will close when the number exceeds 400.

Add subheadings below as necessary. You are not prevented from choosing languages that others have already chosen. You may comment on predictions so long as the comment is distinct from the prediction.

You may make up to 3 predictions, but each must concern a different language.

4004 BC

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  • Cave person. - Me Urk! Me invent chisel! Me create Wikipedia stone everyone in tribe can edit! --carlb (talk) 18:19, 14 February 4008 BC (UTC)

... 6021 years later ...

1902 AD

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Yesterday

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1984

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2006

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2007

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Really? Of all the weird languages Wikipedia has, how has no nerd decided "Yah lets do Ancient Egyptian!" ✶Mitch199811 01:47, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2008

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That's not a language. —Keenan Pepper 16:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good point. I was tired last night; I withdraw that vote! :D ~Mr Inky · (T @ C) 17:12, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Go Canada! *waves flag* I always knew we'd take over someday. CameoAppearance 10:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2009

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2009 1/2

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Sometime in the 2010s

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*AAA-AAAAAAAA. AAAAAAAA AA AAAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAA AAAA AAAAAAA AAAAA AAAAAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAA. - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 17:07, 8 AAAAAAAA 2006.

**The first article will be taken from here. - Ghelaetalkcontribs 10:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Bushic - After people miss President Bush (because of President Rumsfeld), they'll make a whole language of Bushisms. This will catch on, especially in the South, and Wikipedia starts up bush.wikipedia.org. Fifty years later, a Democratic president will get elected and ban Bushic. —THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 21:27, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:70.184.32.37Tie between everything on this page, because everyone wants to win, and on Deceber 29, when the 499th is made, everyone will simultaneously create theirs at the same picosecond.

2010

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Lets just say that past experence suggests it may not stay that way.Geni 02:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2011

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2012

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P.S. Before someone whines I'm just being silly. I'm not aiming to win, I'm aiming to make someone smile. SO SMILE DAMMIT!

2013

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2014

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Irrational Wikipediance! CameoAppearance 10:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2015

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2016

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2017

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Early March: The language spoken by the Korowai tribe. It's in the Awyu-Dumut family (southeastern Papua) and is part of the Trans-New Guinea phylum. Pengo 12:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC) September 27: Backus–Naur Form N/A0 02:34, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ainu language--Seonookim (talk) 06:12, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2017,5

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2018

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2019

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The 499th language will be Early Modern English, created at precisely 0000 hours on December 25. Acs4b T C U 11:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sometime in the 2020s

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2030

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2031

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2020-2040

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In the Not-Too-Distant Future

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2040

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2041

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I hope there isn't a What does the fox say language --Pie3141527182 10:11 19 November 2013 (EST)

2043

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2048

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2050

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  • 31 December Newspeak- By a date as early as 2050, Oldspeak will have been completely forgotten. (By the way, I didn't notice the other guess for Newpeak when the one below was made. Am I allowed to guess the same thing, so long as it's for a different date. I mean, my guess for the date was a subtle reference to 1984! That makes it better, right? Does it matter? Will I ever get a job?) Steveo2 11:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2052

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2065

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Angel, spoken by angels and souls in Heaven-ha ha, as if!--Seonookim (talk) 06:14, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2063

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2073

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2075

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2078

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2084

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2095

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2096

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Actually, Pokémon began in 1995. Phail..:Stirb Nicht Vor Mir:. 14:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But it was released in 1996, wasn't it? [User:Williditor|Williditor] ([User talk:Williditor|Talk to me!]) 22:07, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

2101

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  • January 1 - 13375p33k - In 2101 war was beginning, so CATS took over all base and made 13375p33k Earth's official language. He also forced a group of haxx0r gorillas to make a 13375p33k Wikipedia and delete all 499 other Wikipedias. Then, he made a gold statue of himself and ruled t3h n3w w0r1d!!!!!!111onehundredandeleven1!111!!!shift+1shift+1!!!1!11 --81.226.110.29 17:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • September 2 - the Twitterese language. Spoken and typed by Twitterians all over the world. Also tweeted by small blue birds. ScienceFan66 | talk | 17:07, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]



2112

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2113

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  • 5 June. Quenya. That is the day after my 126th birthday. I can be pretty sure I'll be dead by then, since I will do anything possible to avoid this happens when I'm alive, given my hate for LotR... --Army1987 14:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
ummm.Geni 13:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, Quenya and Sindarin incubators seem to have been deleted now, and since they were incubators, I don't think they should count...but still, voting for Telerin (5 June), which will be created along with Quenya and Sindarin WP. Double sharp (talk) 14:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2154

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2222

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Omicronian - When World War IV breaks out ۩ Dracion ۩ Talk 10:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2300

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July 13, 2380. It will be Klingon. 65.167.146.130 (talk) 15:54, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2525

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If man is still alive. – The Grid (talk) 20:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2711

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  • STPR (Supertext Protocol Robotese)

-- Downgrader  101010  23:18, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

4149

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5330

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6666

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10001

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Um, what language written in binary? —Keenan Pepper 00:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
By that point, sentient computers will have created their own language, as part of their plot to overthrow mankind. So.... it will be that language. Written in binary. - Razer64 19:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Why is "worldspeak" in English, then?

10191

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12346

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Shouldn't ROT47 be in there too? Just wondered. ~ Ghelaetalkcontribs 15:12, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
`8AcJ cf`?`cJ _Cdb>cJ _5b4cJ bbfdAbb<`cJ (Translated into ROT47 for you.)
Then you have to translate it into binary and ROT-2 it. ~ Ghelæ talkcontribs 07:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

207.145.133.34 14:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's not morse code. --Army1987 15:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

21984

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82930 and a bit

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200,000

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500,000

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802,701

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971,496

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  • March 28 - Proto-World. Upon the advent of safe, reliable time travel in the year 754,280, linguists begin documenting the language of every human group that ever existed. Finally, after more than 200,000 years of hard work, a reliable reconstruction of Proto-World with a strong post-post-post-post-Chomskyan theoretical basis emerges. Proto-World turns out to be exactly the same as the universal language of all humankind, which had emerged around 400,000 as all languages merged, albeit with slight dialectical differences due to historical English, Chinese and Spanish substrata. (All evidence of substrata had disappeared by the mid-971,000s.) To an American English speaker from about 2006, Proto-World sounds like a cross between the Basque, Ainu and Zuni languages. szyslak (t, c, e) 22:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1,234,567,789

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  • 32nd Tridecember. Southern Pariapatatian, from City Southern Pariapatatia, State ΛΞ, Country Eka-Greekioniese, Planet Sphxzvewdrster Glasdfqwwrestyujkakahfurmde, Solar System Holomonobosipsippararp, Galaxy Inmemoryofprofessorastatauliandagaragaliatheinventorofthemachinethatcanturnanythingintoanything, Universe Calixo-9900133143, Universe system Pluon-222, Mother universe Suttttttte, Dimension 5.

111,000,000,001 (Eleventy-one billion one)

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10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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292,277,026,596

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2^74,207,281-1

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This would be a Prime candidate for 500 languages, the 500th of which would be Simlish (220.239.253.185 (talk) 10:38, 18 April 2016 (UTC))[reply]

  • Woah, what number is that?

Never

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Unknown date

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Records

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Notes

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  1. ^ Votes for Borean languages and Proto-Indo-European language are counted as contributing to the tally of Proto-World language
  2. ^ Where a vote is for a specific language expressed with a particular twist, such as a leet version of pig latin expressed in morse code, I've interpreted it simply as a vote for the language rather than the expression; in this case pig latin. This interpretation is likely to be controversial and other interpretations will change the order of most commonly predicted languages shown above. A new pool will open shortly to predict when someone will take me to Arbcom over this.
  3. ^ Klingon is also one of the most commonly predicted languages, but being a language which already has had a Wikipedia edition disqualifies it from that list