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We give you the name of the language in it's own language. You give us the English name.
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First submittedSeptember 24, 2013
Times taken135,608
Average score71.4%
Rating4.87
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77 Comments
kalbahamut
+29
Level 81
Nov 17, 2013
Got everything except for Welsh, and still only beat 78.6%. Must be a lot of linguists on here this morning.
epicdjyoshi
+15
Level 33
Aug 12, 2015
Yes hello
epicdjyoshi
+10
Level 33
Aug 12, 2015
Got Japanese cos I learn Japanese. Guessed Korean from the Hang, which I assumed was Hangul script or language of Korean. Knew the rest. :) and got all of them and with 2:25 remaining :)
TheRatmeister
+21
Level 89
Mar 27, 2018
Looks like Cymru, or Wales in Welsh. That's how I got it.
AlexThirkell
+5
Level 75
May 6, 2021
Can anyone explain why Cymru is pronounced Cumry? It looks like a typo that stuck...
Larabee
+8
Level 15
May 1, 2023
It’s how the Welsh pronounce y and u
bambrini
+2
Level 33
Mar 12, 2025
Perhaps because the Latin alphabet has been adapted to countless languages, not just English, and different languages have different phonologies
kitsims
+9
Level 83
May 6, 2021
That's just how Y and U are pronounced in Welsh.
ruftytufty
+38
Level 79
May 8, 2021
It's almost like it's a different language
AlexThirkell
+6
Level 75
Jan 29, 2022
It's a different language, but the same Latin script as English...
JTest54
+6
Level 65
Apr 16, 2024
Just because something is written in the same script doesn't mean it has to be pronounced the same. The letter J is pronounced differently in English, Spanish, and German.
bambrini
+2
Level 33
Mar 12, 2025
Do you think the *Latin* alphabet was created for English or something? Why aren't you asking why "v" pronounced like a voiced "f" in English when it's pronounced like an English "w" in Latin? Why is "v" pronounced like that in English when it's pronounced like "b" in Spanish, a Romance language much closer to Latin than English is?
alekspet
+11
Level 46
Mar 21, 2022
Script is the same, but the values of letters are different. Also, English has very weird letter values itself.
theperiodictable
+1
Level 46
Aug 19, 2018
or maybe just command+t google translate
smoceany
+18
Level 51
May 6, 2021
no cheating
Prestfromthewest
+1
Level 45
May 25, 2024
I got 21/21 (not cuz I looked up the other half)
nettybet
+2
Level 76
Nov 17, 2013
How come I got 2 wrong (Hungarian and Chinese) and still beat 83.8%?
kalbahamut
+53
Level 81
Nov 17, 2013
Well the sun rises earlier in Europe. All of the geniuses there probably kick the average score up pretty high before the dummies in 'merica wake up and bring down the average.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Nov 17, 2013
In all seriousness.... it actually may have something to do with timing. I've noticed new quizzes tend to go up around 8 a.m. my time, just when I'm arriving at the office which is when I usually take the ones on the front page. At that point they are brand new and the only people who would have taken the quiz before are quiz junkies who go looking for stuff that has not been featured or people who are interested in the subject of that particular quiz and searched for it.

After any quiz has been on the front page for a few hours, though.. then lots of more casual jetpunk users including people who are not really interested in the subject of the quiz will end up taking it, and this probably does in fact bring down the average score.

Quizmaster
+12
Level ∞
Nov 18, 2013
The reason is that featured quizzes can be found on the site as soon as I make them (before they hit the front page). The users who find the quizzes this way tend to be serious trivia buffs.
nettybet
+1
Level 76
Nov 18, 2013
Thanks for the explanation - I understand now (maybe) :-)
epicdjyoshi
+1
Level 33
Aug 12, 2015
Yep, cant agree more
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Jan 28, 2016
yes, Yoshi. I've noticed that there are people from certain parts of the world that are never hesitant to prove certain negative stereotypes about themselves... make a sarcastic comment meant to point out such a stereotype and someone will pipe in soon enough to agree with it earnestly.
sprk
+2
Level 60
Jan 29, 2016
Some of us use the "recent user quizzes" part of the site which is where the new quizzes go up, before they get popular enough to be on the front page. In that part, you can just scroll down until you find a title that interests you. If you are a linguist, you would just pick language quizzes. So the language quizzes get lots of linguists taking them at first, which really boosts the stats. (This is the same for any type of quiz and its respective experts.) So by the time they reach the front page, they have very high stats on them, and the front-page-only users bring the scores down a little (since they are more casual quizzers). But since everyone here is interested in taking quizzes, most people have a higher than average general knowledge. So the percentages on these quizzes are (I would guess) about twice as high as what the average person would get. Hope this helps explain the stats to any new user.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Feb 1, 2016
User quizzes, when first created, do not grant points. User quizzes, once selected to be featured and given a star next to them, do. And there is usually a gap of several weeks or even months between when a quiz is selected to be featured and when it appears on the front page. This is my understanding, anyway.
justaq
+1
Level 53
Nov 19, 2013
All with 2:44 left.
Hampus
+1
Level 56
Mar 19, 2021
3:11 BOOM
sillie
+2
Level 76
Jun 4, 2014
Only had to think a moment about Korean, the rest was easy.
Jerry928
+5
Level 76
Jul 24, 2014
... in its [no apostrophe] own language...
bambrini
+1
Level 33
Mar 12, 2025
11 years later and it's still not corrected lol
Lillyrose333
+1
Level 21
Jan 7, 2015
100% yay with 2;30 left
verdun
+5
Level 70
Nov 23, 2015
In the instructions, it's should be its.
Ragoat
+2
Level 29
Jan 28, 2016
Chinese in Chinese is zhongwen not hanyu
HomicidalChicken
+15
Level 43
May 30, 2016
Honestly, I think either one flies. If we're really going to split hairs, "Chinese" isn't even its own language. There's Mandarin (putonghua), Cantonese (guangdonghua), and lots of other dialects, like Wu or Min. I'm not sure about this, but I think zhongwen refers to the written form? At any rate, the vast majority of China is of the Han ethnicity so really, hanyu (literally "language of the Han", so Mandarin) is probably as close as you'll get to "Chinese". I can think of like four different ways to refer to Chinese in Chinese off the top off my head, though, so I suppose it's difficult to keep them all straight.
Tramp
+1
Level 77
Aug 19, 2018
They're both fine
bonk
+3
Level 75
Jul 28, 2020
zhongwen is more of a general term, which can refer to either language or writing, but hanyu is used to talk about language specifically (you don't get people saying i write in hanyu)
jmellor13
+1
Level 67
May 6, 2021
I lived in China for a year, and I definitely heard "hanyu" a lot. If I heard the other term, I sure don't remember it.
jennraven
+2
Level 67
Jan 4, 2023
That’s funny, I heard zhongwen 中文 way more when I lived there. But yes, both are correct.
Angbo
+2
Level 66
May 7, 2021
Yap.

We usually says Putonghua and Zhongwen,Hanyu is an official word.

In chinese,Hanyu meant Korean too.

MrMackASOY
+2
Level 68
Oct 25, 2023
it's a different 'han' though. Your comment makes it sound like the word for chinese and korean is the same
MrMackASOY
+1
Level 68
Oct 25, 2023
The 'wen' in zhongwen refers to script or writing. The 'yu' in hanyu means language. It is used in many chinese words for foreign languages eg yingyu, fayu, deyu.
joedimaggio
+2
Level 73
Jan 29, 2016
Hahaha I can't belive that 6% could not find italian!!
xXeLeCtRoNiXx
+3
Level 21
Feb 1, 2016
What about the old français?
Hectorselector
+2
Level 59
Jul 31, 2023
it's too passe
mariposita
+3
Level 69
Sep 17, 2016
Really surprised that 12 was the average score. Thought most of these would be either obvious or common knowledge.
CupASoup
+2
Level 53
May 2, 2017
Here I was thinking it was called "Norse" or "Nordic."
benjaminmarker
+2
Level 72
May 6, 2021
What? The Scandinavian languages? Noth germanic languages? Norwegian?
Lewons
+1
Level 32
Jun 30, 2018
I guessed every other balkan state exept croatia for Hrvatski lol
MrMackASOY
+1
Level 68
Oct 25, 2023
Croatian for Croatia is Hrvatska. We get the word cravat from the name on account of how Croatian soldiers wore little neckties to identify themselves
Aleksandro
+2
Level 48
Jun 30, 2018
Got all except Japanese, Chinese, and Greek. Feeling good about myself
SjiroVT
+1
Level 32
Aug 19, 2018
Good quiz, that was lots of fun! Didn't get Welsh and Croatian, even though Itried a few balkan languages. Welsh is pretty hard if you dont know alot about it though.
ecky
+1
Level 72
Aug 20, 2018
Breezed through it...100% with 3.11 left
Gozzagog
+2
Level 69
Jan 3, 2023
boring
KanzazKyote
+2
Level 89
Jul 21, 2019
Wow, that use of Pinyin really threw me off, and I'm Chinese. Very much used to Hanyu in Chinese.
Creo
+1
Level 44
Dec 6, 2019
Norwegian was so obvious, I just didn't know how to spell it, I thought it was Norweigan
Yoshimano
+1
Level 65
Sep 14, 2020
wow.. using characters à and ǔ was very misleading..

Thanks though!

TheAlternateNY
+5
Level 66
Sep 14, 2020
that...is how you write Chinese in Chinese pinyin...

If you want then they could write it as 汉语

s246
+2
Level 33
May 6, 2021
How come "Gaelic" isn't accepted?
nios
+4
Level 53
May 6, 2021
Because Gaelic isn't a single language, rather a branch of Celtic. It would be like saying 'Accept North Germanic for Norwegian.'
brandybuck96
+3
Level 83
May 6, 2021
From Wikipedia: 'As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually.' Though you usually see just 'Gaelic' to refer to Scottish Gaelic rather than Irish.
granuaile
+4
Level 77
Jan 3, 2023
The term Gaelic really covers three languages nowadays - Gaeilge (Irish), Gaidhlig (Scots Gaelic) and Manx.
MUFC7
+1
Level 69
May 6, 2021
It was accepted for me
Saftra
+1
Level 51
May 6, 2021
15/21
YogBarOg
+2
Level 73
May 6, 2021
No Français? I am sad.
draisaitl29
+1
Level 29
Dec 5, 2024
thats what i was wondering too

im pretty sure a lot of people know what it means

EnderzRealm
+4
Level 46
May 6, 2021
Good to see Wales getting some recognition in a quiz :) Cymru am byth!
codylitboigeo
+1
Level 32
May 14, 2021
got them all with 10 seconds left, great quiz
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 72
Jun 1, 2021
18. Couldn't spell Norwegian, missed Welsh and Korean. I'm not sure how my brain made the connection to Gaelic for Irish but that's how I got that, and for Greek I saw the "Ell" and though of the ell in Hellas
Irishboy11
+1
Level 39
Oct 30, 2021
Got All With 20 Seconds To Spare
mrzli86
+3
Level 89
Apr 3, 2022
bravo za hrvatski
TheLonelyAlula
+4
Level 55
Jan 15, 2024
Some more languages with interesting names in their own language that differ from the English name: Hayeren (Armenian), Kartuli ena (Georgian), Shqip (Albanian), Avañeʼẽ (Guarani), Amarəñña (Amharic), Kalaallisut (Greenlandic).
KiloNova
+1
Level 55
Sep 16, 2024
I thought I know most of these...turns out I don't...
DougB
+1
Level 65
Nov 10, 2024
In the quiz description you mean "its" not "it's". I wouldn't complain but it is a quiz about language, so getting English right seems appropriate ....
ColinShadow
+1
Level 54
Dec 5, 2024
Can't believe that my language (Korean) is even less guessed than Croatian or Welsh....
draisaitl29
+1
Level 29
Dec 5, 2024
i got korean but not croatian or welsh
Neodymium
+2
Level 62
Dec 5, 2024
its* no apostrophe
draisaitl29
+2
Level 29
Dec 5, 2024
im still wondering how i didnt get swahili
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