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Based on the clues, name these world languages starting with each letter.
"Most-spoken" refers to the number of people who speak it natively.
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Clue
Language
A
Language of the Quran
Arabic
B
Language of northern Spain not closely related to any others
Basque
C
Variety of Chinese spoken in the Hong Kong region
Cantonese
D
Language from which Afrikaans is derived
Dutch
E
Created in 1887, it was intended to be a universal language
Esperanto
F
What Paavo Nurmi spoke. Known in its own language as Suomi.
Finnish
G
"Eins, zwei, drei" is how you'd count to three
German
H
Official language of Israel
Hebrew
I
The only Celtic language that is the official language of an independent country
Irish
J
Can be written in Kana, Hiragana, and Kanji scripts
Japanese
K
Official language of Cambodia
Khmer
L
Language of ancient Rome
Latin
M
Official language of Madagascar
Malagasy
N
Has the most speakers of any Native American language in the United States
Navajo
O
Most commonly-spoken language in Ethiopia
Oromo
P
The most-spoken that is not the official language of any country, native to India and Pakistan
Punjabi
Q
Main language of the Incan Empire, still spoken today
Quechua
R
Romance language spoken in a certain country in Eastern Europe
Romanian
S
Lingua franca of Tanzania and Kenya
Swahili
T
Dominant language of Anatolia
Turkish
U
Spoken in the city of Lviv
Ukrainian
V
Most-spoken language in Indochina
Vietnamese
W
Variety of Chinese spoken in the Shanghai region
Wu
X
Nelson Mandela's mother tongue
Xhosa
Y
Jewish language that developed in Eastern Europe
Yiddish
Z
Most-spoken language in South Africa
Zulu
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38 Comments
sillie
+14
Level 75
Jun 30, 2019
A point worth to remember is that Sibelius grew up in a Swedish-speaking home and didn't learn Finnish until in school. Yes, he spoke Finnish, but it wasn't his first language.
TarsTarkas
+1
Level 74
Jul 27, 2019
Hear hear
ruudsje
+2
Level 68
Jul 27, 2019
kuule kuulla
Josefs
+1
Level 78
Jul 27, 2019
But it also says it’s called suomi in it’s own language
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2022
I have replaced Jean Sibelius with Paavo Nurmi.
AnnikaKim
+3
Level 66
Sep 6, 2023
Should also replace Suomi (=the country) with suomi (=the language).
Dax
+22
Level 66
Jul 27, 2019
Odessa is mainly Russian speaking. The clue is 'spoken in the city of Odessa' - so technically it is correct, just a strange choice of city. I expect Ukranian is spoken in London too, but it would be weird to use that as the clue! Lviv would probably be a better option.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 61
Jul 3, 2020
I had this exact thought.
Jiaozira
+2
Level 72
Mar 29, 2022
I think the clue is alright, it doesn't claim that Ukrainian is the most spoken language there and Lviv is a little more obscure/less known. Realistically, if you were to guess, your options would be Ukrainian or Russian and the letter narrows things down.
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2022
Replaced Odessa with Lviv.
pkerr116
+3
Level 71
Jan 12, 2023
I suspect Russian is on a steep decline nowadays in Odessa. Also, I think it's now 'Odesa' with certain translations morphing from Russian to Ukrainian (eg, Kyiv not Kiev).
jf15
+5
Level 63
Jul 27, 2019
Nice to see Esperanto getting some love.
Hollywood
+2
Level 60
Jan 14, 2020
I guessed Ebonics
SWATkun
+2
Level 59
Jul 28, 2019
Can't wait for part two
czcsanad
+6
Level 57
Jul 29, 2019
Uhm..I missed only Ukrainian. Because the dominant language in Odessa is Russian. I know i am dumb, since i didn't think of Ukrainian, but still, the first language that comes to my mind when hearing Odessa is Russian.
HydratedMite
+1
Level 68
Apr 26, 2024
Did you have like 10 seconds left or something???
Zefyrinus
+10
Level 74
Aug 10, 2019
A little correction: It should say katakana instead of kana. Just kana is the umbrella term for katakana and hiragana.
ppaaccoojrf
+5
Level 42
Aug 22, 2019
Or just write kana and kanji.
NV1
+1
Level 55
Jun 24, 2020
Couldn't type Omoro
NV1
+1
Level 55
Jul 3, 2020
100% Now!
Yeoryios
+20
Level 71
Oct 1, 2020
Wow, was thinking Ethiopia's most spoken is Amharic.
HeyItsMeJJ
+1
Level 65
May 21, 2021
Same!
aquaticgiraffe
+2
Level 74
Nov 16, 2021
The Amharic ethnic group dominate business, culture and politics in the country, but the Oromo are the most numerous by a small margin!
yellowsheets
+2
Level 44
Oct 17, 2020
Accept Malagasi for Malagasy?
JackintheBox
+4
Level 82
Feb 21, 2021
I live in the Wu-speaking region of China!
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Feb 25, 2022
Xhosa...not Xosha. Dangit. I was racking my brain trying to come up with another south african X language.
HydratedMite
+1
Level 68
Apr 26, 2024
Xosha looks so, so wrong to me lol
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Mar 29, 2022
Missed Esperanto because I kept thinking it was Esperanzo for some reason, forgot Malagasy and Oromo
Findlay
+7
Level 80
Mar 29, 2022
"Kana" in Japanese refers to any syllabic script, as opposed to kanji, which are logographic. The three scripts are hiragana (the most common), katakana (used to represent loan words, foreign names, neologisms and onomatopoeia), and kanji (Chinese characters used for names, but also plenty of common words, where they replace hiragana - in children's texts tiny hiragana referred to as furigana are often written above the kanji to help them sound them out). Hiragana and katakana are both forms of kana.
kito
+1
Level 44
Mar 29, 2022
Oromo is more spoken than Amharic?
Walacama
+3
Level 83
Mar 29, 2022
according to wiki - Oromo 33.8%, Amharic 29.3%
Freedom84
+1
Level 64
Mar 29, 2022
Wonderful and super quiz
bn9043
+1
Level 63
May 20, 2022
ugh i need to stop taking jetpunk quizzes this close to midnight

what makes me say this? i missed ukrainian

25/26

SwedishAlien
+1
Level 24
Mar 25, 2023
I got all of them! It's sad that many people have limited knowledge of languages in Africa.
MCdoesgeography
+1
Level 74
Aug 4, 2023
Yiddish developed in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe.

It's also quite similar to Bavarian.

SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Sep 6, 2023
Just missed Oromo, assumed Amharic would be most spoken in Ethiopia since it's their official one
HydratedMite
+1
Level 68
Apr 26, 2024
Oromo is too
Bonifratz
+1
Level 55
Mar 17, 2025
26/26 on the first try, very proud of it. I only remembered Navajo with a few seconds to spare.
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