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Which Language is Closest?

For each language, choose the option that is the closest genetically.
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1. Italian
Romanian
Maltese
Albanian
Greek
2. Turkish
Mongolian
Kazakh
Russian
Bulgarian
3. German
Norwegian
Dutch
English
Polish
4. Mandarin Chinese
Korean
Burmese
Thai
Japanese
5. Swahili
Somali
Zulu
Yoruba
Arabic
6. Persian
Armenian
Greek
Bengali
Arabic
7. Tagalog
Hawaiian
Maori
Malagasy
Vietnamese
8. Hindi
Classical Sanskrit
Bengali
Punjabi
Indonesian
9. Armenian
Georgian
French
Turkish
Arabic
10. Thai
Burmese
Khmer
Sinhala
Lao
11. Hungarian
Romanian
Finnish
Turkish
Polish
12. Ukrainian
Polish
Russian
Bulgarian
Kazakh
13. Arabic
Wolof
Kurdish
Somali
Turkish
14. Nahuatl
Yucatec Maya
Shoshoni
Quechua
Navajo
15. Hausa
Igbo
Hebrew
Malagasy
Yoruba
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15 Comments
JWatson24
+10
Level 71
Jan 18, 2022
Great quiz! Pretty tough too, some of them really made me think. I think it deserves a nomination :)
thread
+2
Level 67
Jan 18, 2022
Thanks! I took some time for each one to try and make it hard :)
Tramp
+2
Level 79
May 20, 2022
Armenian is closer to French than Georgian? I'm not doubting you, but how?
Anderis
+7
Level 76
May 20, 2022
Armenian is an Indo-European language, so is French, Georgian is not. The same way Spanish is more closely related to Hindi than to Basque.
thread
+2
Level 67
May 20, 2022
Yes!
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
May 20, 2022
huh.. Had no idea about a couple of these. Learned some things about Hausa and Malagasy after getting them wrong...
stylus
+2
Level 79
May 20, 2022
wow, really tricky but so interesting to see the answers! i thought i could potentially get a few just by guessing whatever was the most unintuitive, but you've got a good mix of seemingly impossible ones and more believable ones to keep us on our toes. nominated!
thread
+1
Level 67
May 20, 2022
Thanks! That was my intention :)
PaterN
+2
Level 81
May 20, 2022
Very interesting, nominated!
thread
+1
Level 67
May 20, 2022
Thanks!
NHG
+2
Level 48
May 28, 2022
Very interesting - thank you. The New World one totally threw me off as I've no idea about language families there!
DeepFriedSheep
+2
Level 76
Jun 30, 2022
Amazing quiz! Would never have guessed the connection between Malagasy and Tagalog. Really makes you think.

I got lucky by remembering both Hungarian and Finnish were Uralic though :p

thread
+1
Level 67
Jun 30, 2022
Thanks! The first one of my favorite language families, it came from Taiwan but is now spoken in Madagascar and Hawai'i.
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Mar 12, 2023
Sequel? (Add Telugu)
thread
+1
Level 67
Mar 12, 2023
Sure
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