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Languages by Wikipedia Descriptions

Can you name these world languages based solely on excerpts from their wikipedia descriptions?
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Last updated: January 27, 2020
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It is the most widely learned second language and is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states
English
New words have been formed by adding affixes such as lao- (老), -zi (子), -(e)r (儿/兒), and -tou (头/頭)
Mandarin
It evolved from Vulgar Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans during the Second Punic War
Spanish
Having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society
Italian
An Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Malay
It stands alongside Hindi and English as one of the few languages with primary official language status in more than one Indian state
Telugu
The Quran and Hadith were written in it
Arabic
According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken of the Bantu languages, after Swahili
Zulu
The ultimate source for current estimates of the number of users in the United States is a report for the National Census of the Deaf Population (NCDP) by Schein and Delk (1974)
American Sign Language
It was used as the language of international communication, scholarship and science until well into the 18th century, when it began to be supplanted by vernaculars (including the Romance languages)
Latin
Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors
Hebrew
Dialects from peripheral regions, such as Tōhoku or Kagoshima, may be unintelligible to speakers from the other parts of the country
Japanese
It is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, with 144 million speakers
Russian
Also known by its endonym Bangla
Bengali
The languages that are most similar are Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish
German
It is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and is a language isolate in relation to any other known living language
Basque
It would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire
Greek
It is a standardized variety of the Tagalog language, an Austronesian regional language that is widely spoken in the Philippines
Filipino
His original title for the language was simply "the international language"
Esperanto
It is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and the predominant language of most works of Hindu philosophy as well as some of the principal texts of Buddhism and Jainism
Sanskrit
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2 Comments
JNJ1308
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Level 26
Jul 25, 2023
I didn't realise you have to be specific with the sign language one...
Sifhraven
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Level 72
May 23, 2024
Nice quiz, but it really needs a yellow box and a little bit more time.

I also expected sign language to be accepted luckily I remembered the abbreviation asl (not even realizing the a stood for american, that is what you get with photographic memory haha, you know words, but not always why)

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