Guess the Language Family

When given 3 languages, guess the language family or sub-family they belong to.
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Last updated: September 10, 2021
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Languages
Family
Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic
Semitic
Vietnamese, Khmer, Santhali
Austro-Asiatic
Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
North Germanic
Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi
Indo-Aryan
Maori, Hawaiian, Samoan,
Polynesian
Turkish, Kazakh, Uyghur
Turkic
Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian
Slavic
Songhay, Dinka, Maasai,
Nilo-Saharan
English, Hindi, Russian
Indo-European
Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese
Sinitic
Spanish, French, Italian
Romance
Thai, Lao, Isan
Tai-Kadai
Swahili, Zulu, Xhosa
Bantu
Irish, Welsh, Scottish
Celtic
Hindi, Persian, Bengali
Indo-Iranian
Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian
Uralic
Arabic, Hausa, Somali
Afro-Asiatic
German, English, Swedish
Germanic
Mandarin, Burmese, Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan
Indonesian, Malagasy, Tagalog
Austronesian
Swahili, Yoruba, Wolof
Niger-Congo
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
Dravidian
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2 Comments
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Level 73
Feb 18, 2023
Please accept "Finno-Ugric" for Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian.
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Level 58
Nov 5, 2024
Could you say it's Scottish Gaelic please, as is it can be confused with Scots, which is not a celtic language.