In South Africa, Afrikaans we call a turtle a skilpad (peel road) but it probably originated from Swedish or a similar word to that (as it's probably a reduced word (drop the "-d-" and the "-da")).
We call an ibis a Hadida based on the sound they make (ha-dee-daa), isn't that amazing?
Oh and "yes-no" (ja-nee) which means you are agreeing with what they say. And "now" is like in 15 min to half an hour, whilst "now-now" (nou-nou pronounced núnou) means in a while (an hour to three hours) and "just-now" (net-nou) means three hours to probably never.
Ooh. I’m enjoying this. I wish I could think of things like that for my location, but I’m not really that aware. Most of the things we say that are “localized” tend to diffuse in this modern Information Age. Like: instead of “a lot” or “very” we say: “hella,” but that is more common other places now too. We tend to say “yeah... no,” and “no... yeah” for yes and no- but I don’t really know of any other things asides from local originating slang that has become well known through hip hop and pop culture. We probably say things differently and don’t realize it. One I have been told that isn’t just this area- but is different than some areas is that people don’t tend to say distances like miles or kilometers. We tend to use time like to say “it’s 15 minutes to the store” or similar.
skilpad = Afrikaans
skildpadde = Norwegian
skildpadde = Danish
schildpad = Dutch
sköldpadda = Swedish
schildkröte = German
Afrikaans is rooted in German and Dutch. Swedish happens to be another Germanic language. If you speak Dutch or German you get along fine with Afrikaans
We call an ibis a Hadida based on the sound they make (ha-dee-daa), isn't that amazing?
skildpadde = Norwegian
skildpadde = Danish
schildpad = Dutch
sköldpadda = Swedish
schildkröte = German
Afrikaans is rooted in German and Dutch. Swedish happens to be another Germanic language. If you speak Dutch or German you get along fine with Afrikaans