Statistics for All Major Afroasiatic Languages (with a map)

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Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.

Subdivision	Dialect	L1	Language or Dialect	% Correct
Semitic	-	348 m	Arabic	100%
Cushitic	-	21 m	Somali	93%
Semitic	-	5.0 m	Hebrew	91%
Semitic	Arabic	132 m	Egypto-Sudanic Arabic	75%
Semitic	-	32 m	Amharic	74%
Semitic	Arabic	95 m	Maghrebi Arabic	72%
Semitic	-	520 k	Maltese	59%
Semitic	Arabic	38 m	Levantine Arabic	57%
Semitic	Arabic	41 m	Mesopotamian Arabic	52%
Semitic	Arabic	42 m	Peninsular Arabic	51%
Cushitic	-	37 m	Oromo	45%
Semitic	-	9.8 m	Tigrinya	40%
Chadic	-	60 m	Hausa	37%
Semitic	-	587 k	Suret	37%
Cushitic	-	1.9 m	Afar	29%
Berber	-	2.4 m	Central Atlas Tamazight	20%
Berber	-	3.0 m	Kabyle	16%
Semitic	-	1.0 m	Tigre	16%
Cushitic	-	1.1 m	Beja	13%
Berber	-	2.1 m	Tarifit	9%
Berber	-	4.3 m	Shilha	8%
Cushitic	-	3.0 m	Sidama	7%
Beber	-	500 k	Tamasheq	7%
Berber	-	2.1 m	Shawiya	5%
Cushitic	-	1.3 m	Hadiyya	4%
Berber	-	801 k	Tawellemmet	4%
Cushitic	-	980 k	Gedeo	3%
Cushitic	-	740 k	Kambaata	3%