Recognizing languages in Geoguessr is about spotting unique characters and letter combinations: Slovak features Ľ, Ô, Ä; Czech uses Ř, Ě, Ů; Hebrew contains no vowels; Sinhala has distinctive "curvy" characters that resemble C's; Hindi includes upside-down 'h's; Arabic has calligraphic lines; Chinese characters consist of more strokes than Japanese or Korean; Khmer has right-pointing hooks on symbols; Japanese utilizes simple curved strokes; Thai boasts small circles on letters; Bengali displays a horizontal line over characters; Lao includes curved letters; Korean is blocky with circles; Dutch often has doubled vowels and 'ij'; Italian words typically end in vowels; Icelandic uses Þ and ð; German features ä, ü, ö, and ß (or 'ss' in Switzerland); Romanian includes ă, ș, ț; Croatian sports ž, š, ć; Latvian has diacritics like ū; Polish displays unique ‘ł’ and ‘ż’; Estonian is characterized by double letters and Õ; Greek is identified by its alphabet; Hungarian has distinctive umlauts like ő, ű; Lithuanian is marked by ė and word endings '...ai', '...as'; Macedonian Cyrillic incorporates ‘Ѓ’, ‘Ќ’; Ukrainian Cyrillic uses ґ, і, ї, є; Serbian combines Cyrillic and Latin, with Ђ, ћ; Montenegrin tends to use Latin script; Kigali signs feature English and Kinyarwanda; English is common in the Philippines; Palestine predominantly uses Arabic; Senegalese signs display French; Indonesian has 'Jl.' for streets; Brazilian Portuguese contains 'Ç' and 'ã'; Turkish includes 'ş' and 'ç'; Curaçao employs Dutch; Russian, Slovene, and Norwegian also have special characters; Malaysian and Indonesian are notably similar, influenced by English and Dutch respectively.

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