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Odd Language Out
Each group of answers contains two related and one less-related language; can you guess the odd one out?
Each language's classification follows Wikipedia
A few languages are dead
Not all questions cover the same-size language families or groups
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Last updated: July 19, 2023
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| First submitted | July 18, 2023 |
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1. Which language is less-related?
Hindi and German are Indo-European; Hungarian is Uralic.
German
Hungarian
Hindi
2. Which language is less-related?
Latin and Greek are Indo-European; Aramaic is Afro-Asiatic.
Latin
Greek
Aramaic
3. Which language is less-related?
English and Swedish are Germanic languages; French is Italic.
English
Swedish
French
4. Which language is less-related?
Polish and Bulgarian are Slavic languages; Armenian is in its own Indo-European branch, Armenian.
Polish
Bulgarian
Armenian
5. Which language is less-related?
Comanche and Nahuatl are Uto-Aztecan, Yucatec Maya is Mayan.
Yucatec Maya
Nahuatl
Comanche
6. Which language is less-related?
Navajo and Tlingit are Na-Dené languages; Lakota is Siouan.
Lakota
Tlingit
Navajo
7. Which language is less-related?
Spanish and Irish are Indo-European; Basque is an isolate.
Spanish
Basque
Irish
8. Which language is less-related?
Tamil and Malayalam are Dravidian languages; Sinhala is Indo-European.
Sinhala
Tamil
Malayalam
9. Which language is less-related?
Arabic and Berber are Afro-Asiatic languages; Persian is Indo-European.
Persian
Berber
Arabic
10. Which language is less-related?
Turkish and Azerbaijani are Turkic languages; Georgian is Kartvelian.
Georgian
Azerbaijani
Turkish
11. Which language is less-related?
Norwegian and Russian are Indo-European languages; Finnish is Uralic.
Norwegian
Russian
Finnish
12. Which language is less-related?
Guarani and Tupí are Tupian languages; Southern Quechua is Quechuan.
Guarani
Southern Quechua
Tupí
13. Which language is less-related?
Kazakh and Kyrgyz are Turkic languages; Mongolian is Mongolic.
Mongolian
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
14. Which language is less-related?
Tagalog and Indonesian are Austronesian languages; Thai is Kra-Dai.
Thai
Indonesian
Tagalog
15. Which language is less-related?
Mandarin and Tibetan are Sino-Tibetan; Nepali is Indo-European.
Nepali
Mandarin
Tibetan
16. Which language is less-related?
Burmese and Cantonese are Sino-Tibetan languages; Japanese is Japonic.
Cantonese
Japanese
Burmese
17. Which language is less-related?
Amharic and Hebrew are Semitic languages; Somali is Cushitic.
Hebrew
Amharic
Somali
18. Which language is less-related?
Dutch and Luxembourgish are West Germanic; Danish is North Germanic.
Dutch
Danish
Luxembourgish
19. Which language is less-related?
Zulu and Comorian are Bantu languages; Malagasy is Austronesian.
Malagasy
Comorian
Zulu
20. Which language is less-related?
Xhosa and Swahili are Bantu languages; Yoruba is Yoruboid.
Swahili
Yoruba
Xhosa
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3 Comments
partdavid
+2
Level 74
Jul 18, 2023
I suspect it's a little too difficult to be fun, but I wanted to get a variety of language families and areas represented and a decent number of questions. There's a fair number you can puzzle out with a little linguistic knowledge and logic and some more obscure ones. I tried to avoid any edge cases or controversies. Enjoy!
cuotak
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Level 70
Jul 18, 2023
Q4 and 17 the answers and explanations don't match.
partdavid
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Level 74
Jul 19, 2023
Thank you! Fixed.
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