Fun With Wikipedia

If you've ever been to the Wikipedia home page, you've undoubtedly seen the long list of languages in which the articles are written. Most of them are real languages, but I almost think that the Scots language articles are somebody's idea of a practical joke. Here, for example, is the Scots Wikipedia article on the United States:

The Unitit States o Americae is a kintra on the North American continent, an it is bund bi twa oceans (the Atlantic, an the Pacific) an bi twa kintras (Mexico tae the sooth, an Canadae tae the north). Its current Presses is George W. Bush o the Republican Pairtie.

Follaein the European colonisation o the Americaes, thretteen o Graet Breetain's nineteen American colonies spleet frae the mither kintra an formed the Unitit States, the warld's first constitutional an democratic federal republic, efter thair Declaration o Unthirldom in 1776 an the Weir o Unthirldom (1775–1783).

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This airticle's a stub. Ye can gie Wikipædia a haund bi eikin til it.

Ach, come on, yer pullin' mah laig!

Here is the same article in Anglo-Saxon:

Þā Geānlǣtan Rīcu American is trēowiendlicu cynewīse þe ligþ mǣst in Norðamerican. Hīe gebyrdaþ norþ Canadan and sūþ Mexico. Hīe habbaæ 50 rīca and āne trēowiendlice scīre, and habbaþ sume foldan mid syndrigum gradum sibbe. Man spricþ ymbe hīe, in syndrigum fiellum, swā þā Geānlǣhtan Rīcan, America^[1], þā U.S., þa U.S.A., þā U.S. of A., þā Rīcu, oþþe (leōþlīce) Columbia.

And just for fun, in Esperanto (Here's enough to give you the flavor of it):

Usono (angle: The United States of America; mallonge: USA, US aŭ America) estas federala konstitucia respubliko kiu konsistas el 50 subŝtatoj kaj federala distrikto.

Usono estas preskaŭ tute en la okcidenta hemisfero. Ĝia kvardek-ok apudaj subŝtatoj kaj ĝia ĉefurbo Vaŝingtono situas en Nordameriko; la plej granda parto de Usono (la t.n. 48 ŝtatoj, krom Alasko kaj Havajo) limitiĝas norde de Kanado, oriente de la Atlantika Oceano, sude de la Golfo de Meksiko kaj Meksiko, kaj okcidente de la Pacifika Oceano. Alasko lokiĝas nord-okcidente de Kanado, kaj Havajo lokiĝas enmeze de la Pacifika Oceano. Usono ankaŭ posedas dek-kvar teritorioj, inkluzive de Gvamo kaj Puerto-Riko.

Man, they love their J's and K's in Esperanto, don't they? And just for the hell of it, read their list of American cities at the bottom of the article.

And yes, in case you were wondering, there is, indeed, a Latin version of the page, for the Civitates Foederatae Americae:

Civitates Foederatae Americae^[1] (Anglice: United States of America), breviter Civitates Foederatae vel Civitates vel America, in quibus quinquaginta civitates insunt, in America Septentrionali anno 1789 conditae sunt; quarum urbs Vasingtoniae est caput. Septentrione Canadam, austre Mexicum, oriente Oceanum Atlanticum, occidente Oceanum Pacificum tangunt. Praeses est quadragesimus tertius Georgius W. Bush.

There does not, however, appear to be one in Pig Latin. Ixnay on that idea! Be sure and read the list of American states and their capitals in Latin at the bottom of the article, and see how many you can puzzle out. Cenomannica? Mons Viridis? Novum Eboracum? Terra Mariae? Have fun with those!