| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Just behind Spanish for most speakers in South America despite being widely spoken in only one South American country | Portuguese | 89%
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| Also known as Farsi | Persian | 81%
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| Most spoken language in the Philippines | Tagalog | 77%
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| Has the most native speakers of any South American indigenous language | Quechua | 76%
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| Only Slavic language on this quiz | Russian | 74%
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| Lingua franca of East Africa | Swahili | 72%
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| Only Indo-European language where the most speakers live in Africa | Afrikaans | 70%
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| Most spoken Semitic language (and only one on this quiz!) | Arabic | 70%
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| Language with the most native speakers | Mandarin | 67%
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| Only official U.N language ending in "CH" | French | 64%
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| Hiragana is a script of this language | Japanese | 62%
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| Marco Polo spoke a offshoot of this language | Italian | 60%
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| Shares its name with a peninsula | Korean | 57%
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| Krung Thep Maha Nakhon is in this language | Thai | 56%
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| One of the languages on the Rosetta Stone | Greek | 50%
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| Hessian and Franconian are dialects from this language | German | 49%
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| One of Eswatini's official languages | English | 43%
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| Language with the longest alphabet in the world | Khmer | 41%
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| Loan words from this language to English include anchovy, sleigh and caboose | Dutch | 35%
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| Has the most native speakers of any European language | Spanish | 26%
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