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Top World Languages A-Z

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 taken10,538
Average score61.5%
Rating4.83
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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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27 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 65
Jul 6, 2015
Thanks for the suggestion; we will fix!
SirPhilippines
+3
Level 67
Apr 12, 2021
"We"?
Levisek27
+1
Level 46
Aug 31, 2024
Yea, because not "they".
joez
+9
Level 74
Apr 2, 2016
T was the toughest. I tried Turkish, Thai, Tagalog and Tamil
Sifhraven
+2
Level 71
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 65
Feb 15, 2022
That's my language :)
Neodymium
+1
Level 59
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 59
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 65
Feb 15, 2022
I have a blog about it (T) if you want to learn more!
Neodymium
+2
Level 59
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 65
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
+5
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
+6
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
+1
Level 54
Aug 31, 2024
Farsi is the official name for Persian.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 1, 2024
No.
kitsims
+1
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 76
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 86
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
+1
Level 42
Sep 13, 2024
Shouldn't the language for I be Indonesian? It's the official language of Indonesia and has 200 million speakers
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