home
Menu
Create
Random
0
0
thumbnail

Top Five Languages by Language Family

Guess the five languages with the most native speakers in each of the language families below.
Indo-European languages are separated
The Uralic languages are only three because there are no clear data
For 2019 according to Ethnologue. Source. Some common sense modifications are made.
Quiz by Aaron197
Rate:
Featured Quiz
Last updated: February 28, 2020
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
First submittedFebruary 28, 2020
Times taken24,587
Average score48.3%
Rating4.98
Quiz and answer stats >>
Friends stats >>
6:00
Enter language name here
0
 / 58 guessed
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
Romance
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Italian
Romanian
 
Sino-Tibetan
Mandarin
Wu
Cantonese
Min Nan
Hakka
Turkic
Turkish
Uzbek
Azerbaijani
Kazakh
Uyghur
 
Afroasiatic
Arabic
Hausa
Amharic
Oromo
Somali
Niger-Congo
Yoruba
Igbo
Swahili
Fula
Kinyarwanda
 
Slavic
Russian
Polish
Ukrainian
Serbo-Croatian
Czech
Germanic
English
German
Dutch
Swedish
Afrikaans
 
Dravidian
Telugu
Tamil
Kannada
Malayalam
Gondi
Indo-Iranian
Hindi
Bengali
Punjabi
Marathi
Urdu
 
Celtic
Welsh
Breton
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
Cornish
Austronesian
Javanese
Malay
Sundanese
Tagalog
Cebuano
 
Uralic
Hungarian
Finnish
Estonian
(Sami Languages)
jbro
+6
Level 60
Aug 17, 2021
Nominated! This quiz is amazing
Cog
+3
Level 74
Jan 1, 2022
Great quiz
bluesdjben
+6
Level 73
Jan 2, 2022
Great quiz. Got more than I thought I would, although it took a while to come up with some of them.
woshiwaiguoren
+1
Level 67
Jan 2, 2022
Awesome! Nominated. Can you add "Bretton"? I thought the T was repeated by analogy to Brittany.
LuigiDood227
+5
Level 64
Jan 3, 2022
*misses English*

*Misses German*

How am I so bad at this, I still get around 60% mostly???

AkiraMorishita
+1
Level 47
May 20, 2022
I completely forget Russian
guigo
+1
Level 67
Jun 20, 2022
Great!
TheOrca
+4
Level 49
Jun 20, 2022
Surprised Burmese doesn't beat Hakka. also would be fun to include other categories like nilo-saharan, austroasiatic, or native American to make it harder.
mathemusician
+1
Level 66
Dec 25, 2022
That would be cool! I can only think of two Nilo-Saharan languages off the top of my head so I'd struggle. Though it looks like this quiz is mainly sticking with true language families (descended from a common ancestor) and native American languages are not a true family. Nilo-Saharan might not be either, but it sounds like there's some evidence. Austroasiatic is pretty well supported though. Also I'm not a linguist lol.
tshalla
+3
Level 74
Aug 26, 2022
Very fun! I thought Afrikaans was very tricky. Apparently half of the people who've taken this quiz didn't!
protector441
+5
Level 40
Oct 15, 2022
If the fifth biggest Germanic language is not Danish nor Norwegian, there is only one left possibility, what it can be...
tshalla
+4
Level 74
Oct 15, 2022
True, but if you're doing this using a mental map, that's a tough one. Similarly, the fifth Dravidian language was tough. Or maybe that's not the right way to put it - I'd never heard of it. Until recently, there were four Dravidian states - each with a different main language.
Quizzy69
+1
Level 69
Aug 26, 2022
Great quiz. Got more than I thought, but also missed a lot. Doesn't help to just think of languages spoken by lots of people, if not in the groups listed. Nominated
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 73
Sep 28, 2022
True, although that's how I missed Afrikaans.
AlmostAGenius
+2
Level 76
Sep 20, 2022
I sat there with the Celtic languages thinking, what is the adjective form of Brittany? Tried everything I could come up with before giving up, thinking it must be something else.
Azerk
+2
Level 61
Sep 25, 2022
Agh, I put Bahasa Malay and not just Malay
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 73
Sep 28, 2022
Excellent quiz, this is a real weak spot for me so it's time to learn...
Geografen
+4
Level 66
Oct 9, 2022
Uralic:

4: mari. 5: udmurt. Both languages have more than ten times so many speakers than all sami languages together,.

Prot
+1
Level 56
Oct 15, 2022
Could you accept indonesian and bahasa for malay?
rhinobaby
+1
Level 62
Oct 15, 2022
Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic are all Germanic languages and it makes literally no sense that Swedish is included but all other Scandinavian languages are omitted. And even less sense that Afrikaans is included but three out of four Scandinavian languages are nowhere to be found.
Geografen
+13
Level 66
Oct 15, 2022
Swedish and Afrikaans have around 11 and 7 million speakers, number 4 and 5 after English, German and Dutch; and it makes no sense that Danish and Norwegian, with each have around 5.5 million speakers should been included among top 5. And even less sense to include Icelandic, with only 0.3 million speakers.
WelshWizard
+7
Level 80
Oct 15, 2022
Swedish and Afrikaans are included because they have more speakers than Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. Re-read the quiz description.
NQChien
+1
Level 64
Oct 15, 2022
Manx doesn't make the fifth place?
protector441
+1
Level 40
Oct 15, 2022
So Bahasa Indonesia is considered as part of Malay language?
Koopa
+1
Level 73
Oct 15, 2022
Very challenging, and very fun.
FranckMee
+9
Level 66
Oct 16, 2022
You should not accept "Scots" as a synonym for "Scottish Gaelic". Scots is a Germanic language (I tried it because I had forgotten about Afrikaans), quite close to English.

You may accept "Scots Gaelic", but just "Scots" isn't right.

cocachiantos
+1
Level 63
Oct 16, 2022
Absolutely true.
stromae
+1
Level 69
Oct 18, 2022
ugh i wrote cornwallish because i knew they were celtic but didn't know what they spoke
TheUnableDerk
+2
Level 48
Nov 2, 2022
You know theres more than four Uralic languages right

Udmurt

Komi

Moksha

Erzya

Nenets languages

Võro

Karelian

Veps

Ingrian

Nganasan

Khanty

Mansi

Just cause you don't like them doesn't mean they don't exist. Hell, it would've made more sense than Niger-Congo considering not only are they much less known but the existence of it as a family is still debated.

brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
Feb 11, 2023
Have you tried reading the title and description?
Fianchetto
+1
Level 65
May 10, 2023
Yay, now it takes me 1000 points to level up!
DenysParfirov
+1
Level 20
May 12, 2023
Russian isn't Slavic. Russian is a Ugro-Finnish language
Save Your Progress
More Quizzes in this Series
Top Languages
Similar Quizzes by Tag
Groups of Things
Language
Top 5 Groups

Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2023

Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site