Stats: Guess the Language from the Description

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
I'm the language with the most non-native speakers.	English	99%
I'm the language with the most native speakers.	Mandarin	99%
I'm the language spoken by the majority of the population in the most countries.	Spanish	94%
I'm the language to blame for the English spelling system.	French	78%
Although I go by a different name and use a different writing system, I'm nearly identical to Hindi in most respects.	Urdu	74%
I'm the most widely used language that was ever consciously invented. I even have a handful of native speakers!	Esperanto	65%
Although I'm widely spoken in parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula, I'm not closely related to any of the Nordic languages.	Finnish / Sami	65%
I'm the language that first enabled linguists to decipher the Rosetta Stone.	Greek	58%
I'm the most-spoken creole language.	Haitian Creole	55%
Although I'm an African language, my closest relatives are spoken in Indonesia.	Malagasy	47%
I'm spoken in the Arctic Circle all the way from Siberia to Greenland. I'm sometimes described as a single language with many dialects, and other times as a continuum of distinct but closely related languages.	Inuit	46%
I'm the language spoken by Asia's most populous stateless nation.	Kurdish	42%
I've been described as history's first "world language", and I was the most widely spoken language of the Middle East prior to the Arab conquests. (I'm also not extinct, despite what you may have heard!)	Aramaic	39%
I'm the last remaining Paleo-European language.	Basque	39%
I'm the most-spoken language indigenous to Africa.	Hausa	39%
I'm the Ethiopian language with the most native speakers.	Oromo	38%
If you speak a language with an alphabet or other phonetic writing system, I'm the language whose alphabet yours is probably derived from.	Phoenician	38%
I'm the most-spoken language indigenous to the Americas.	Guaraní	37%
I used to be the most widely distributed language in prewar Europe, stretching all the way from Russia to the UK.	Yiddish	36%
I'm the most successful case of language revitalization in history.	Hebrew	35%
Out of the 60+ languages taught by the U.S. Foreign Service, they consider me to be the most difficult to learn for a monolingual English speaker.	Japanese	35%
I'm the national lingua franca of the world's most linguistically diverse country.	Tok Pisin	35%
I was once the main linguistic rival to Latin in the Italian Peninsula during the era of the Roman Republic.	Etruscan	34%
I'm the only Semitic language conventionally written in the Latin alphabet.	Maltese	34%
I'm often considered English's closest living relative, not counting Scots.	West Frisian	33%
I'm frequently considered the world's most-spoken language isolate, meaning I'm not known to be related to any other language.	Korean (feel free to argue about Jeju in the comments)	32%
I'm the classical language of the Aztec Empire, and I'm still spoken today by almost 2 million people.	Nahuatl	32%
I'm the oldest known written language.	Sumerian	32%
I'm one of the few non-tonal Bantu languages, and I'm known for my large number of Arabic loanwords.	Swahili	32%
I'm a large language written in the Latin script who is particularly famous for my prolific use of diacritics.	Vietnamese	32%
Although I was once the royal language of the Qing Dynasty, the final Chinese dynasty before the Republic of China, today I'm considered a critically endangered language.	Manchu	26%
I'm a language featured prominently in the novel "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe.	Igbo	25%
I'm the language with the longest continuous written history.	Egyptian	23%
I'm the first language that linguists ever reconstructed from prehistory.	Proto-Indo-European	21%
I'm the only Mongolic language native to Europe.	Kalmyk	18%
If you're a fan of gamelan music and elaborate puppet theater, I'm the language you should thank. (Two different answers are acceptable here.)	Javanese / Balinese	15%
Translating to the "language of good", I'm a minimalistic artificial language that was designed to be exceedingly simple to use, easy to learn, and promote happiness.	Toki Pona	13%
I'm the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism.	Avestan	11%
I'm an Amazonian language (in)famous among linguists for my many unusual features, particularly my alleged lack of syntactic recursion.	Pirahã	11%
I'm the language whose alphabet is often considered the most complex in the world.	Tibetan	11%
I was a secret language (or "cant") used in England until the late 20th century to converse among a number of clandestine or low-status subcultures, including gay men, actors, showmen, wrestlers, sailors, sex workers, and criminals. My vocabulary was influenced by Yiddish, Romani, Gaelic, and Italian. Slang words like "butch", "camp" and "zhoosh" entered the English language because of me.	Polari	8%
I'm a language with a unique writing system derived entirely from numerals.	Dhivehi	7%
I'm the world's youngest known natural language. (Google me later, it's an incredible story.)	Nicaraguan Sign Language	6%
I'm the only language known to use all four airstream mechanisms: pulmonic, ejective, implosive, and click. I'm also the only Afro-Asiatic language to use click consonants at all.	Dahalo	4%
I'm the only language outside of Africa known to use click consonants.	Damin	4%
After every indigenous language of Tasmania was driven to extinction by British Australian settlers, I'm a constructed language being developed by Aboriginal Tasmanians to preserve their cultural heritage.	palawa kani	3%
I'm the most-spoken creole language which is NOT based on a colonial European language.	Kituba	2%
I'm the language with the funniest name.	Libido	2%
I'm the most famous example of a "mixed language" among linguists.	Michif	2%
I'm an Austronesian language famous among linguists for my extensive use of metathesis.	Rotuman	2%

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