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Hint	Answer	% Correct
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	99%
It evolved from Vulgar Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans during the Second Punic War	Spanish	99%
The Quran and Hadith were written in it	Arabic	95%
Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors	Hebrew	94%
The languages that are most similar are Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish	German	93%
Having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society	Italian	93%
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	92%
New words have been formed by adding affixes such as lao- (老), -zi (子), -(e)r (儿/兒), and -tou (头/頭)	Mandarin	92%
It is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, with 144 million speakers	Russian	90%
Dialects from peripheral regions, such as Tōhoku or Kagoshima, may be unintelligible to speakers from the other parts of the country	Japanese	89%
An Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore	Malay	86%
Also known by its endonym Bangla	Bengali	85%
It would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire	Greek	79%
His original title for the language was simply "the international language"	Esperanto	75%
It is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and is a language isolate in relation to any other known living language	Basque	71%
It is a standardized variety of the Tagalog language, an Austronesian regional language that is widely spoken in the Philippines	Filipino	68%
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	67%
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	64%
According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken of the Bantu languages, after Swahili	Zulu	57%
It stands alongside Hindi and English as one of the few languages with primary official language status in more than one Indian state	Telugu	43%