Tough quiz. I don't believe that there are only 6.5M native English speakers in Africa though. I'm aware that many (most?) speak it as a second language, but it still seems incredibly low to me.
(Maybe) accept Ashanti and/or Fante for Akan? I know the Ashanti and Fante people are technically subgroups of the Akan, but since they are the largest/most recognizable groups I think it might make sense to accept those as type-ins (though I'm not sure, so if you have a reason for not accepting those I'd be interested in hearing it).
Yes those will be accepted now! It does make sense, since those are different standardized versions of Akan. I've been wanting to do a larger overhaul of this quiz for almost a year now but fow now I am touching things up when they are requested :)
Yes, will fix soon. In my source there were a few languages which showed up, yet didn't have a number of speakers attached to them (i.e. Swazi, Ga, Afar) so they will need to be added.
Such a shame German isn't on the list - IIRC, the GDR had funded German education in socialist states like Angola, and was one of the leading Western states against Apartheid and racism.
According to Wikipedia 0.9% of Namibia, including 35% of white Namibians, speaks German. I assume the first figure is for L1 and the second for L1 and L2 speakers but I'm not completely sure. The list is already incomplete, so German would need a lot of traction to appear on the quiz!
Amazing quiz! I've been doing a JetPunk language project the last few months so I appreciate these quizzes a lot more even though i already appreciated them infinitely . I found a lot more 1 Million speaker languages myself, and I also tried to use your source but it seemed to be very faulty. I also had a lot of trouble finding sources but the pages of the languages themselves were pretty reasonable :)
Originally the source was even worse since not all the languages even had the number of speakers. I believe it has been updated by someone with a (reasonably priced) Ethnologue subscription but when I update the quiz I may have to exclude all languages with under 5 million speakers. It's crazy how some languages with 2-3 million speakers can have so little information, it's like a mystery!
even though i already appreciated them infinitely. I found a lot more 1 Million speaker languages myself, and I also tried to use your source but it seemed to be very faulty. I also had a lot of trouble finding sources but the pages of the languages themselves were pretty reasonable :)I tried Morisyen, after it didn't work I didn't think to try Mauritian Creole, though I guess that bit is on me^^'