Biggest Cities by Language Quiz

Fun quiz. Got 100%. Two of these answers might help someone figure out one of the answers on my very tricky analogies quiz that most people missed.

Very good quiz, I like the ones with languages :)

8 million in the actual city, plus the suburbs in Long Island, northern New Jersey, southern New York, southwest Connecticut.

Serbo-croatian consist of Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian, so I think the quiz is right.

It's a political thing. If you'd read Serbian newspapers during Croatia's World Cup adventure, maybe you'd understand. Not that I do. :)

Difference between Serbian and Croatian
is smaller than between British English and American English
so I think that it is simple one language: Serbo-Croatian

Yeah I know about script, but I was talking about language
- Croat easily mean what Serb is talking and vice versa
and for person from the outside is hard to recognize
in which language person (Bosnian, Croat, Serb) is speaking.

Ok maybe I wrong said that is one language, but differences between them are small.
Now I wonder in which other languages differences are even smaller.

Im from Serbia and the difference is really small, just a few words but almost everyone knows them. Both Serbia and Croatia use the latin script but only Serbia uses the cyrilic but nevertheless theyre much closer to dialects than languages of their own

So it would be like calling it Dano-Swedish, and including all of the Copenhagen-Malmo metro area?

Scanian, spoken in Malmö, is a Danish dialect influenced heavily by Swedish.

Just call it Norse-dialects.

Greeks are just Ottoman Christians.

Hahaha, if Greeks are Ottoman Christians then Turks are Muslim Byzantines :P

That's not accurate. Turks came from central Asia, outside of the Byzantine Empire. It's not like there were Muslims living in the Byzantine Empire that agitated for independence and then got Anatolia to secede. The Seljuq Turks were foreign invaders of the Greek-speaking Christian Byzantine Empire. Over the next 500 years as they ruled these lands the term Greek came to mean anyone in the Empire who still belonged to the Greek-speaking Greek Orthodox Christian Church.

The myth of Nationalism has confused people into thinking that all of these people who spoke Greek were somehow connected genetically, a discrete cogent people... but it's not so. After Alexander the Great Greek because the lingua franca everywhere from Bulgaria to Egypt to Iraq to Afghanistan. Romans eventually conquered most of the western portion of these Greek-speaking lands, but Latin did not become the most spoken language except in the Western Roman Empire. The Eastern half of the empire continued to speak Greek, as it had for centuries before, but not because the people there were "Greek" the way we conceptualize the term today.

Incidentally all nationalistic myths are lies. Including Turkish nationalism. And Macedonian nationalism. And Bulgarian nationalism. And French and German and Russian and Chinese and Indian nationalism. And Greek nationalism, for sure. I'm not bigoted against Greeks...

Anyway after being ruled for over 5 centuries the lands that were the Ottoman Empire and the people in them of course would share a lot of cultural similarities. Greek and Turkish coffee.. same thing, like gandalf said. Kebab? Shawarma? Gyros? It's the same thing. The Balkans and the Near East are all Ottoman. That doesn't mean they're all Turkish.

Because Turks look so much like central Asians, right?

As much as I look like an American, I guess.

I thought that

What are you talking about? You don't need to click on anything. Just answer :)

Right, no need to do them in order.

Lol, I found Ahmadabad was way to easy if you think about it. Ahmadabad is a city in Gujarat either way. It's not that hard to get that answer...

It's easy if you know Hindu States, which I am not very knowledgeable of.

then you are like most of the people and dont get that one right lol

Uh Bengali is a language in Bangladesh so it should be Dhaka, not Kolkata. Kolkata is a city in India.

Right, because languages always start and end at natural borders and there's never any cultural overlap.

And they only speak one language in India I guess. And Bangladesh and India were never the same country. Oops...

Bengail is a regional language in india.West bengal speaks it.Kolkata is the largest city in West bengal. Kolkata is larger than dhaka. So it's Kolkata

Kolkata is in bengal state of india so it speaks bengali but dhaka' s population is slightly larger than kolkata

Not slightly, Dhaka is way bigger than Kolkata

It looks like the quiz was updated and Kolkata was replaced by Dhaka. I assume this is because Dhaka has had more population growth and it has nothing to do with which country each city is in.

As a last second try I typed in Canton and it worked!

Guangzhou/ Guangdong is sometimes called Canton in English, and so is the province it is in (also called Guangdong). The actual name for Cantonese is Yue.

Actually, Cantonese is a dialect of Yue.

Ahmedabad?

It's in Indian state of Gujarat...largest city if that state

Rome should be on here not Milan.

i typed that first

I think Belgrade kind of ruins the quiz... All of them are big, famous cities and Belgrade 1.3 m :|

Belgrade is a famous city, historically important. But it has a small population.

Just because you aren't familiar with it doesn't make it popular.

Wu is the second most spoken language in China, and is even more spoken than Cantonese worldwide. There are about 30 million speakers of Wu, however, most of them live in Shanghai or surrounding areas like the Zhejiang province, while Cantonese has many speakers in other countries such as UK, USA, Canada and Australia

It's all Greek to me!

No, I ran out of time!

YUSS got them all this time :-)

'Tolerated' you are not very tolerant when it comes to time for quizzes that you are good at. Most quizzes (except the timed typing quizzes) are for general knowledge not typing skills. If you are one of those unfortunate people that think that typing skills are more important than knowledge, I feel sorry for you. If you are just a very intelligent quizzer then try some of my quizzes, you might not find those as easy. (click on Malbaby and go from there)

Is the urban area of Tel Aviv considered larger than Jerusalem on citypopulation.de? Or is Arabic listed as more common than Hebrew? I'd be more likely to believe the former than the latter, though I was pretty sure Jerusalem was bigger.

Done with 28 seconds left. And from my phone, where I write slower.

You're wrong on Bengali...Dhaka should be the main city, not Kolkata. Wiki shows Dhaka having 14.4m in 2013. Kolkata has 14.38m in 2015.

And that even shows stats for different years, proving his point invalid.

So much for that

Guangzhou doesn't have 46.9 million people

Metro area, man.

20 out of 24. I kept typing in Hong Kong; I did not think that guagzhou had such a big population. But the way what is the difference between Wu and Mandarin

Thought that Jerusalem was bigger than tel aviv

Guangzhou does not have that large of a population, you can't just include other cities like Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou into Guangzhou and even if you did, Shenzhen is a city where you speak mandarin due to the fact that the majority of the population have migrated from other provinces

Now Ankara is turkey's capital

Your point is? The quiz is asking for the biggest cities where a language is most commonly spoken and Istanbul has thrice as many people as Ankara.

Missed just Lagos and Ahmedabad, got all others however.

I knew sau Paulo. just i forgotten it's spelling

sao paulo

Missed Gujarati but got everything else. What a fun quiz!

Is Dhaka (at 18 million) not larger than Kolkata?

who else had no clue what Gujarati is lol

According to English Wikipedia, urban Kinshasa has more inhabitants than urban Paris, maybe check on some other sources, too.

Isn't Shenzhen included in the numbers for Guangzhou? In that case, Shenzhen should be an acceptable answer.

Idk if someone has mentioned it before, but Rome should be bigger than Milan today (even with urban area around it). See Wikipedia, etc.

Sometimes they replace a few words and insist it's a new language because of politics.

Accept Beograd for Belgrade?

Jerusalem has more hebrew speakers than Tel Aviv

I think this is false if you consider the urban area. But more importantly this isn't based on the cities with the largest number of speakers of each language, it's about naming the biggest cities where each language is spoken more than any other language in those cities.