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For each letter A-Z guess the language starting with that letter which has the greatest number of NATIVE speakers.
According to Ethnologue (2019) via Wikipedia. I made some common sense modifications.
Chinese and Hindustani languages need to be guessed separately
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First submittedJuly 4, 2015
Times taken29,632
Average score57.7%
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# Speakers
Language
A
250 m+
Arabic
B
228 m
Bengali
C
73 m
Cantonese
D
23 m
Dutch
E
379 m
English
F
77 m
French
G
90 m
German
H
341 m
Hindi
I
65 m
Italian
 
# Speakers
Language
J
128 m
Japanese
K
78 m
Korean
L
20 m
Lingala
M
915 m
Mandarin
N
16 m
Nepali
O
35 m
Odia
P
221 m
Portuguese
Q
9 m
Quechua
R
154 m
Russian
 
# Speakers
Language
S
480 m
Spanish
T
82 m
Telugu
U
69 m
Urdu
V
76 m
Vietnamese
W
81 m
Wu
X
37 m
Xiang
Y
38 m
Yoruba
Z
12 m
Zulu
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45 Comments
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Jul 5, 2015
You should accept Nepalese for Nepali. Missed that one because of this. I think I also misspelled Yoruba but don't know how. Yaroba or Yaruba maybe.
Quizzer6794
+2
Level 66
Jul 6, 2015
Thanks for the suggestion; we will fix!
SirPhilippines
+5
Level 68
Apr 12, 2021
"We"?
Levisek27
+1
Level 55
Aug 31, 2024
Yea, because not "they".
joez
+16
Level 75
Apr 2, 2016
T was the toughest. I tried Turkish, Thai, Tagalog and Tamil
Sifhraven
+2
Level 72
Jan 20, 2019
yea T was tough, had a hard time with B aswell though, belarusian. bulgarian, burmese, basque, breton... And L and M (got l though, but missed zulu... I ended up with all but; b,m,o,q,t,x,y,z I should ve gotten b, m and z... )
thread
+3
Level 66
Feb 15, 2022
That's my language :)
Neodymium
+1
Level 61
Aug 31, 2024
same
JWatson24
+3
Level 71
Feb 15, 2022
Telugu was one of my first guesses. Unfortunately I always misspell it as "Telegu" without realizing it. Sigh...
Neodymium
+1
Level 61
Aug 31, 2024
😔
MayaB
+1
Level 73
Apr 12, 2021
Interesting quiz. From those I've missed, I've never heard of T and O. It's weird to see languages with almost as many speakers as Germany's population (for T) which I didn't even know existed.
thread
+3
Level 66
Feb 15, 2022
I have a blog about it (T) if you want to learn more!
Neodymium
+3
Level 61
Aug 31, 2024
You should read Thread’s blog on it!
BigFloppa
+1
Level 62
Apr 12, 2021
so i get Nepali, but not Arabic...
thread
+2
Level 66
Feb 15, 2022
*checks language quiz*

*sees telugu is there*

*happy telugu noises*

Great quiz, nominated!

JonOfKent
+1
Level 57
Feb 15, 2022
Dutch! Argh! Idiot!
Evildrache
+2
Level 45
Feb 15, 2022
Bengali is also called Bangla. Accept this too
Willuna
+1
Level 56
Apr 7, 2022
i got all but m. I feel so silly.
LunarosMusic
+7
Level 57
Aug 17, 2023
I can't even describe how stupid I'm feeling right now.

Did I miss Arabic? No.

Did I miss Spanish? No.

I. Just. Missed. English.

Henceforth516
+8
Level 85
Aug 31, 2024
Is there a more recent citation than Wikipedia's that Turkish has 84m L1 speakers? It says the number is from 2006. Since Turkiye's population is growing, seems likely that it would be higher than 84m today. Wikipedia says that in 2011 Telugu was 83m.

Wikipedia also says that Oromo has 45.5m native speakers.

Hadi5160
+2
Level 54
Aug 31, 2024
Farsi is the official name for Persian.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Sep 1, 2024
No.
Dontforget
+1
Level 69
Oct 11, 2024
Farsi is the current endonym, Persian is the exonym.

Because this is an English quiz we would use the latter. Though Farsi is used interchangeably with Persian by so many people that I think it would be reasonable to have it as a type in for quizzes (but only for ones that aren't first-letter specific like this one)

kitsims
+2
Level 83
Sep 1, 2024
Please also accept Oriya. It's a common name for the language.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 1, 2024
Already accepted.
Tramp
+1
Level 77
Sep 1, 2024
Very cool quiz. Just an idea for anybody looking for a quiz idea, but I think the same quiz, but with the top 3 languages for each letter would also be good.
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 87
Sep 8, 2024
Argh! Can't believe I missed Urdu. So obvious once I see it, but I kept thinking Surely it's Uyghur! No? Not Uyghur? Maybe Uzbek?"
law20
+2
Level 59
Sep 13, 2024
Shouldn't the language for I be Indonesian? It's the official language of Indonesia and has 200 million speakers
PeregrineFalcon
+1
Level 77
Oct 11, 2024
It only has about 44 million native speakers
harajuku
+2
Level 29
Oct 11, 2024
I got Yoruba, but missed Japanese...and I live in Japan...
ColinShadow
+1
Level 52
Oct 11, 2024
I got Urdu and Nepali but nearly missed Hindi...
Ema1331
+1
Level 41
Oct 11, 2024
Concerning french, the difference between the sources used for the quizz and the Organization of International Francophonie is so weird: around 80 vs 220 millions native french speaker!

I'm curious to know the method of the two calculations...

PeregrineFalcon
+1
Level 77
Oct 11, 2024
According to Ethnologue, the total number of native Arabic speakers of all varieties is 383 million
cmoneyplays
+1
Level 62
Oct 11, 2024
The source itself lists Turkish ahead of Telugu. Might be worth updating it soon.
Neodymium
+1
Level 61
Oct 11, 2024
@thread (@thenaturethread) says the stats are from different years. ig bro has an ethnolog subscription or smth?
thread
+1
Level 66
Oct 14, 2024
what
JohnnyYeet
+2
Level 59
Oct 11, 2024
O should be Oromo
dasubergeek
+1
Level 74
Oct 11, 2024
Not me going "am I misspelling Xhosa? Xosa? Xohsa?" and then it wasn't Xhosa at all. Also, Odia/Oriya has 35 million L1 speakers but Oromo has 45.5 million L1 speakers.
franzbabu
+1
Level 22
Oct 11, 2024
does bengali have more native speakers than bahasa? i would imagine bahasa has more since it is spoken in both malaysia as well as indonesia
Neodymium
+1
Level 61
Oct 11, 2024
doesnt bahasa just mean language
Yakimayodashi
+1
Level 48
Oct 11, 2024
yeah it "means" in what language
CosmicCalamity
+1
Level 71
Oct 11, 2024
So there are more native Odia speakers than Oromo speakers. Who knew?
david2013
+1
Level 85
Oct 11, 2024
It always seems the French number is low, thinking of all the French speakers in Africa. But I'm assuming many of them may be secondary speakers and not native speakers, as per the quiz notes.
jennywren21
+1
Level 63
Oct 12, 2024
I thought for sure Waodani would be here; and yes I feel really silly when I saw Quechua.
ZelebobaUkraine
+1
Level 32
Dec 17, 2024
I got Odia but missed Italian
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