Welcome to International Create a Family!
If you would like to play International CAF, simply sign up below by posting a response. Once you have signed up, I will respond by providing you a group of countries or languages that you are to use for the names of the members of your family (The groups and applicable languages are listed below). A new thread will be posted, in which I will provide the family template, judging criteria and specify the date when the thread will be closed for judging. So, here in the introduction thread, simply sign up, and once I assign your group, start brainstorming! The group assignments will be completely random, but if you have a strong preference for any one group, indicate it in your response, and I will see if I can accomodate you (to make sure all the categories are even).
Sign Ups end March 27, 2008, 8AM EST (New York City Time)
The Groups
Group 1: The British Isles
1. English
2. Irish/ Gaelic
3. Scottish
4. Welsh
5. Cornish and Manx
Group 2: The Iberian
1. Spanish
2. Portuguese
3. Basque, Romanian (Romance) and Galician
Group 3: Northwest Europe
1. French
2. German
3. Dutch
4. Frisian, Provencal
Group 4: Scandinavia
1. Swedish
2. Norwegian
3. Danish
3. Finnish
4. Icelandic
Group 5: Eastern Europe
1. Hungarian
2. Polish
3. Czech and Croatian
4. Slovak and Slovene
Group 6: Near East and the Balkans
1. Armenian
2. Turkish
3. Serbian and Azerbaijani
4. Georgian and Albanian
5. Macedonian
Group 7: Russian
1. Russian
2. Bulgarian
3. Ukranian
Group 8: Mediterranean
1. Greek
2. Greek Mythology
3. Italian
4. Corsican
Group 9: Middle Eastern
1. Arabic
2. Kurdish
3. Persian/Farsi
4. Kazakh
Group 10: Hebrew and Biblical
1. Hebrew
2. Yiddish
3. The Bible and Judeo-Christian Legend
Group 11: India
1. Indian Mythology
2. Sanskrit and Indian Names
Group 12: Africa
1. Igbo
2. Yoruba
3. Swahili
4. African Myth and Legend
Group 13: Eastern Asia
1. Chinese
2. Japanese
3. Vietnamese
4. Thai and Khmer
5. Vietnamese
Disclaimer: For the sake of grouping, I have lumped many countrie together, sometimes along language lines, sometimes along geographical lines. I realize that to maintain a generally equal pool of names for each group, I may have forced together two completely different cultures. I apologize, but I did need to keep the groups to a minimum.
This message was edited 3/25/2008, 10:47 AM