Wiktionary:Todo/Impossible translations

Introduction
Many books, websites, online communities and even Wikimedia wikis are dedicated to playing "what if" with dead languages- how would these languages have responded to concepts, technologies, things and events that didn't exist or were unknown when the languages were spoken. These are full of terms that people have made up using authentic morphological elements and rules in order to imitate these languages as closely as possible. This may be fun, even educational, but none of these should ever appear in Wiktionary entries. Since no authentic speaker of a dead language could possibly have used those terms, they inherently fail WT:ATTEST.

For example, Old English Wikipedia has an article titled about the platypus. Australia was unknown to Europeans until modern English times, so this is obviously made up.

These are periodically added to translation sections by clueless people, and people with agendas, so constant vigilance is necessary.

You can use the following for any language by replacing the "ang" with the language code you want to search for:
 * {{search|insource:/\{t?t\+?\{{!}}ang\{{!}}/|Search for Old English translations}}

Eurasia
No verified contact with the Americas before 1492, except for limited contacts by Old Norse speakers

No verified European contact with Australia before 1606

Ancient references to Asia should be checked as to whether they refer to the continent or to Asia Minor

Countries
This is tricky, because some countries didn't exist as a unified state until modern times, but may share their name with a region


 * Dominican Republic
 * Haiti
 * North Korea
 * Northern Ireland
 * South Korea
 * Soviet Union

Plants

 * cacao/chocolate, chile pepper, kidney bean, maize, peanut, pecan, pineapple, potato, pumpkin, redwood, squash sunflower, tobacco, tomato, vanilla

Mammals

 * alpaca, coyote, guinea pig, jaguar, llama, raccoon, skunk, sloth

Birds
hummingbird, meadowlark, mockingbird, turkey

Reptiles

 * alligator, anaconda, iguana, rattlesnake

Amphibians

 * bullfrog

Plants
eucalyptus, wattle

Mammals
kangaroo, koala, platypus

Birds
cassowary, emu

Technology

 * Airplanes
 * Automobiles
 * Computers

List of languages to watch for

 * See Category:All extinct languages
 * Extinct languages with hobbyists
 * Gothic
 * Old English (}
 * Old Norse
 * Old Prussian
 * All

A-E

 * Akkadian - to ~ 1st century
 * Old Akkadian
 * Assyrian:
 * Old Assyrian
 * Middle Assyrian
 * Neo-Assyrian
 * Babylonian:
 * Late Babylonian
 * Middle Babylonian
 * Neo-Babylonian
 * Old Babylonian
 * Standard Babylonian
 * Baekje - to ~7th century
 * Carian - attested to 3rd century BCE
 * Celtiberian - to ~1st century
 * Crimean Gothic - attested 1562, to ~18th century
 * Cumbric - to ~12th century
 * Curonian - to ~16th century
 * Dacian - 1 inscription, mentions in Greek & Latin, probably extinct by 6th century
 * Dalmatian - to late 19th century
 * Demotic - ~650 BCE to 5th century CE
 * Egyptian
 * Elamite - attested to 4th century BCE
 * Eteocretan - attested to 3rd century BCE
 * Etruscan - to 1st century

F-K

 * Faliscan - to 2nd century BCE
 * Fingallian - Attested 17th century
 * Gallaecian (- 1st century BCE- ?
 * Gaulish - to ~6th century
 * Transalpine Gaulish ≈
 * Goguryeo - to 10th century?
 * Gothic - to 9th century
 * Guanche - to ~17th century
 * Hadrami - ~8th century BCE to 6th century CE
 * Hattic - 2nd millenium BCE
 * Hittite - to ~12th century BCE
 * Hurrian - attested to end of 2nd millenium BCE
 * Iberian - to ~2nd century
 * Illyrian - to ~11th century
 * Jurchen - to ~16th century

L-N

 * Latin:
 * Classical Latin
 * Old Latin
 * Late Latin
 * Medieval Latin
 * Vulgar Latin
 * Lemnian - attested 6th century BCE
 * Lepontic - to ~6th or ~2nd century BCE
 * Lusitanian attested 1st century
 * Luwian - to ~7th century BCE
 * Lycian - to ~3rd century BCE
 * Lydian - to ~3rd century BCE
 * Marsian
 * Marrucinian
 * Minoan
 * Moabite
 * Mozarabic - to ~13th century?
 * Mycenaean Greek - to ~12th century BCE
 * Mysian

O

 * Old Church Slavonic - to ~11th century
 * Old English - to 12th century
 * Old French - to ~14th century
 * Old Galician-Portuguese - 9th to 14th century
 * Old High German - to ~11th century
 * Old Irish - to ~10th century
 * Old Norse - to ~15th century
 * Old Persian
 * Old Prussian - Last texts ~16th century, extinct ~18th century
 * Old Saxon
 * Old Turkic - to ~13th century
 * Oscan - to ~1st century

P-R

 * Paelignian
 * Parthian
 * Phoenician - to ~2nd century BCE
 * Philistine - to ~9th century BCE
 * Phrygian
 * Pictish
 * Prakrit - 3rd century BCE to 8th century CE
 * Ardhamagadhi Prakrit
 * Helu Prakrit
 * Khasa Prakrit
 * Magadhi Prakrit
 * Maharastri Prakrit
 * Sauraseni Prakrit
 * Punic - to ~6th century
 * Pictish

S-Z

 * Sabaean
 * Sabine
 * Sicel
 * South Picene
 * Sudovian
 * Sumerian - to ~1700 BCE, learned and religous usage to ~1st century CE
 * Thracian - to ~6th century
 * Tocharian A
 * Tocharian B - to ~9th century
 * Ugaritic
 * Umbrian - 7th to 1st century BCE
 * Urartian
 * Vandalic
 * Volscian

Complexes

 * Arabic
 * Aramaic
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
 * Syriac
 * Chinese
 * German
 * High German
 * Alemannic German
 * Low German
 * Greek
 * Mycenaean Greek
 * Ancient Greek
 * Classical Greek
 * Epic Greek
 * Koine Greek
 * Modern Greek
 * Greek
 * Mariupol Greek
 * Pontic Greek
 * Tsakonian
 * Malay
 * Nahuatl
 * Norwegian
 * Persian
 * Ancient
 * Avestan
 * Old Persian
 * Middle
 * Modern
 * Dari
 * Serbo-Croatian

Learned and religious languages
Kept alive by scholars or adherents of religions
 * Ancient Greek
 * Avestan
 * Church Slavic
 * Coptic
 * Ge'ez
 * Latin
 * Pali
 * Sanskrit

Eurasian

 * Cornish