Which Language is Closest?

For each language, choose the option that is the closest genetically.

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Last updated: March 20, 2023

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1. Italian

Maltese ✓

Romanian ✓

Albanian ✓

Greek ✓

2. Turkish

Russian ✓

Mongolian ✓

Kazakh ✓

Bulgarian ✓

3. German

Norwegian ✓

Dutch ✓

Polish ✓

English ✓

4. Mandarin Chinese

Burmese ✓

Korean ✓

Japanese ✓

Thai ✓

5. Swahili

Somali ✓

Zulu ✓

Yoruba ✓

Arabic ✓

6. Persian

Arabic ✓

Greek ✓

Armenian ✓

Bengali ✓

7. Tagalog

Malagasy ✓

Maori ✓

Vietnamese ✓

Hawaiian ✓

8. Hindi

Bengali ✓

Classical Sanskrit ✓

Punjabi ✓

Indonesian ✓

9. Armenian

Georgian ✓

French ✓

Arabic ✓

Turkish ✓

10. Thai

Lao ✓

Sinhala ✓

Burmese ✓

Khmer ✓

11. Hungarian

Turkish ✓

Polish ✓

Finnish ✓

Romanian ✓

12. Ukrainian

Russian ✓

Kazakh ✓

Polish ✓

Bulgarian ✓

13. Arabic

Wolof ✓

Somali ✓

Turkish ✓

Kurdish ✓

14. Nahuatl

Quechua ✓

Navajo ✓

Shoshoni ✓

Yucatec Maya ✓

15. Hausa

Hebrew ✓

Yoruba ✓

Malagasy ✓

Igbo ✓

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Level 71

Jan 18, 2022

Great quiz! Pretty tough too, some of them really made me think. I think it deserves a nomination :)

Level 65

Jan 18, 2022

Thanks! I took some time for each one to try and make it hard :)

Level 76

May 20, 2022

Armenian is closer to French than Georgian? I'm not doubting you, but how?

Level 69

May 20, 2022

Armenian is an Indo-European language, so is French, Georgian is not. The same way Spanish is more closely related to Hindi than to Basque.

Level 65

May 20, 2022

Yes!

Level 82

May 20, 2022

huh.. Had no idea about a couple of these. Learned some things about Hausa and Malagasy after getting them wrong...

Level 76

May 20, 2022

wow, really tricky but so interesting to see the answers! i thought i could potentially get a few just by guessing whatever was the most unintuitive, but you've got a good mix of seemingly impossible ones and more believable ones to keep us on our toes. nominated!

Level 65

May 20, 2022

Thanks! That was my intention :)

Level 78

May 20, 2022

Very interesting, nominated!

Level 65

May 20, 2022

Thanks!

Level 49

May 28, 2022

Very interesting - thank you. The New World one totally threw me off as I've no idea about language families there!