| Clue | Language | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Has the most native speakers in the world | Mandarin | 96%
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| Asian national language whose transition to the Cyrillic script contributed to increasing of the literacy rate from 17.3% to 73.5% between 1941 and 1950 | Mongolian | 95%
|
| Aotearoa is its native home | Māori | 87%
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| "Bahasa" means "language" in it | Malay | 85%
|
| Smallest of the Serbo-Croatian languages | Montenegrin | 82%
|
| It is mutually intelligible with Bulgarian | Macedonian | 79%
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| The only official language of the EU that is in the Semitic group | Maltese | 74%
|
| Native American language with the namesake of an unsual hairstyle | Mohawk | 74%
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| Language of the Isle of Man | Manx | 70%
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| Language that is spoken in Mumbai – besides Hindi | Marathi | 63%
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| The national language of the Qing dynasty of China between 1644–1912 | Manchu | 58%
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| East African language that is in the same family as the two above | Malagasy | 55%
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| Official language of Kerala | Malayalam | 51%
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| Main Chinese dialect that is spoken in Taiwan | Min Nan | 48%
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| Language of an East African tribe whose life centers around cattle herding | Maasai | 34%
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| Spoken mainly on the Indonesian island of Madura | Madurese | 34%
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| It was spoken in the movie "Apocalypto" | Mayan | 30%
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| Nepal's second-most spoken – also spoken in India's Mithila region | Maithili | 26%
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| Southernmost Indo-European language – before the European expansion | Maldivian | 23%
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| Official language in Burkina Faso that is spoken by half the country | Mossi | 15%
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