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Languages - Sudden Death

Click on the names of the languages that actually exist without clicking any of the ones that don't.
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Last updated: June 11, 2025
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First submittedNovember 23, 2024
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Argyle
Australian
Basque
Burmese
Cebuano
English
Forint
Frisian
Gurkhan
Hausa
Hmong
Igbo
Italian
Khmer
Lhoti
Luxembourgish
Maori
Netherlandish
Odia
Ouroboros
Pashto
Peruvian
Quechua
Sepia
Swahili
Swiss
Tagalog
Tajik
Urdu
Zulu
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59 Comments
+11
Level 72
Jun 11, 2025
Congrats on the Feature mate
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Level 26
Jun 14, 2025
Thank you so much.
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Level 89
Jun 11, 2025
This proud Frisian girl was so glad to see it in the list!
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Level 26
Jun 14, 2025
Awesome!
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Level 57
Jun 11, 2025
Great quiz! Good to have such a thing featured on the site.

Swish is a mean one though since it can make sense, in a way.

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Level 26
Jun 14, 2025
Thank you! I understand what you mean for Swiss, I researched this before making the quiz and again after reading other comments. Swiss German is also spoken in Switzerland, and as I understand even if you know German you shouldn't expect to be able to understand Swiss German because of the differences. However, there still isn't a language named Swiss.
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Level 79
Jun 14, 2025
That's correct. We do speak Swiss German in Switzerland. It isn't an official language but more of a collection of dialects and only spoken. We do read & write standard German, which is also the language spoken in schools & on the news in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.

Source: I'm Swiss from the German-speaking part & lived here all my live.

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Level 81
Sep 25, 2025
Technically, we also have Swiss French and Swiss Italian. For the Italian, I've heard the Italian from Ticino and Lombardy are nearly identical. A few different words. French has more confusion over some words and the Swiss numbers are (obviously) superior ;)
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Level 63
Jun 11, 2025
25 seconds

fun fact khmer is pronounced khmai i think

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Level 52
Dec 26, 2025
I thought it was more like 'khym'?
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Level 76
Jun 11, 2025
Clever quiz, but after watching an Australian cookery show last night, it was so infested with Aussie slang that Australian is edging towards becoming its own language
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Level 26
Jun 14, 2025
That would be fun to watch!
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Level 55
Jun 14, 2025
i actually thought australian might be one of the remaining, because of indigenous australians
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Level 76
Jun 11, 2025
Mine was first and has more takes. Quizmaster how is this fair?!?! You keep doing this to me!
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Level ∞
Jun 12, 2025
We don't always choose the first quiz, sorry.
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Level 78
Jun 14, 2025
So what's the criteria then?

Is it all random?

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Level 67
Jun 12, 2025
Swiss is short for Swiss-German. It's a language.
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Level 92
Jun 12, 2025
I came to say this. All my years of learning German and we had various times we would study it just to see the difference. Romansh is also called Swiss.
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Level 57
Jun 14, 2025
Well first, swiss german officially isn't considered its own language, but rather a collective term for german dialects spoken in switzerland. I don't know about the exact requirements that swiss german is lacking for it to be considered its own language, but there is, for example, no orthography for swiss german. Official documents are written in german (or french/italian/romansh), and so is formal communication like e-mails. Swiss german is mainly used for speaking and informal text messages.

Romansh on the other hand is its own language, spoken by very few people in the south-eastern part of switzerland. It has little to do with swiss german, as it is a romance language and as such closer related to italian or french than german. It is pretty much spoken in Switzerland only, however I have never heard someone call it swiss. But I don't know of it is a mix-up or if other languages effectively call it so.

So I'd say, it is a tricky call, but technically Quizmaster is right.

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Level 57
Jun 14, 2025
But if you want to learn more, both Swiss German and the Romansh language have extensive wikipedia articles that explain the situation with these languages pretty well.
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Level 79
Jun 14, 2025
As a Swiss, I have never heard anyone refering to Romansh as Swiss. Also, Swiss-German is not a language, nor is Swiss.
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Level 75
Jun 14, 2025
I've also heard that Tajik is a dialect of Persian.
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Level 26
Jun 14, 2025
Thank you for your comment amgine. I've gotten this a lot in other comments, but my research hasn't indicated that Swiss is a language or that it is short for Swiss-German. I could be wrong, of course, but I haven't seen where any research indicates this.
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Level 82
Mar 14, 2026
No, "Swiss" is definitely not a language. No one in Switzerland calls "Swiss German" "Swiss", so there is no case to be made that it is a language
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Level 75
Jun 13, 2025
Good quiz with clever traps. Congrats on the feature!
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Level 26
Jun 14, 2025
Thank you, I appreciate it!
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Level 64
Jun 14, 2025
Anyone who's seen Conan learning Australian slangs knows that it's definitely its own language.
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Level 26
Jun 14, 2025
Lol!
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Level 56
Jun 14, 2025
I'm pretty sure Lhoti is a Bantu language and Argyle is spoken in the Caucasus.
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Level 34
Aug 14, 2025
no. maybe youre thinking of Adyghe?
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Level 56
Mar 26, 2026
Yeah, this was a joke as they sounded like Bantu and Caucasian languages.
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Level 88
Jan 15, 2026
You might be thinking of Lozi?
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Level 48
Jun 14, 2025
ODIA MY LANGUAGE
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Level 20
Jun 15, 2025
If you don't speak netherlandish in the Netherlands then what do you speak in the Netherlands?
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Level 26
Jun 15, 2025
I think dutch
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Level 69
Jun 17, 2025
They speak English
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Level 80
Jun 17, 2025
I'm fascinated that 11% of people taking this quiz in English didn't get English... I don't understand how.
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Level 65
Aug 5, 2025
It's sudden death so they got one wrong before reaching English
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Level 73
Jun 18, 2025
To be fair, if you believe the Dutch word for our language, Netherlandish would be correct :p
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Level 26
Jun 19, 2025
Ah 19/20, I failed to pick Odia :)
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Level 87
Jun 20, 2025
100%, quick and easy.
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Level 17
Jun 23, 2025
i did 13/20 not bad i expected worst of me
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Level 57
Jun 24, 2025
As a "Dutch" person not accepting Netherlandish is understandable but also super frustrating, cause that's what we call our own language lol. The only reason the English know our language as Dutch is because to them all the mainland Germanic peoples were the same, and since the High Germans called themselves "Deutsch" the English just applied that term to the Germanic-adjacent peoples living in the Netherlands as well. Over time they came to know the High Germans as Germans, but the term "Dutch" has always stuck to the Netherlandish people. To the great chagrin of all of us lol.
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Level 86
Aug 28, 2025
I feel your pain
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Level 67
Jul 8, 2025
first attempt forgot swiss is not the same as romansch
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Level 67
Jul 16, 2025
Lhoti is a genius trap. I googled it and it means nothing. No results. But it sounds so much like a plausible language, it's the most frequent mistake.
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Level 26
Jul 16, 2025
lol thanks
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Level 56
Sep 12, 2025
I would've never guessed Odia. I thought Gurkhan could be a secret Turkic language hidden across a couple of villages in Russia (Gagauz for instance). Bamboozled. Great quiz.
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Level 50
Oct 9, 2025
When I solved the India States quiz I learnt about Odia
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Level 62
Sep 30, 2025
Australian...
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Level 48
Oct 6, 2025
29 seconds ..
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Level 50
Oct 9, 2025
EZ
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Level 69
Oct 10, 2025
gliit kwiz
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Level 73
Oct 13, 2025
As a Dutchman, I know Netherlandish isn't correct, but it really should be. If you translate what we call our language into English, that's literally it. Idk where 'Dutch' came from
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Level 82
Dec 29, 2025
Apparently the language round there being called some variant of "Dutch" (historically used by many European languages for numerous Low Germanic dialects) predates the concept of the Netherlands.
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Level 51
Nov 22, 2025
I'm odia 🙂
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Level 61
Jan 14, 2026
17 first try yay! I have a friend who's family speaks odia
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Level 20
Mar 24, 2026
luxembourgish is crazy
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Level 57
Apr 22, 2026
It’s really just the German dialect spoken in Luxemburg. They decided to call it an own "language" for political reasons.