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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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First submittedJanuary 18, 2022
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1. Italian
Maltese ✓
Greek ✓
Albanian ✓
Romanian ✓
2. Turkish
Kazakh ✓
Mongolian ✓
Bulgarian ✓
Russian ✓
3. German
English ✓
Dutch ✓
Polish ✓
Norwegian ✓
4. Mandarin Chinese
Burmese ✓
Thai ✓
Korean ✓
Japanese ✓
5. Swahili
Somali ✓
Yoruba ✓
Zulu ✓
Arabic ✓
6. Persian
Armenian ✓
Bengali ✓
Arabic ✓
Greek ✓
7. Tagalog
Maori ✓
Hawaiian ✓
Malagasy ✓
Vietnamese ✓
8. Hindi
Bengali ✓
Classical Sanskrit ✓
Punjabi ✓
Indonesian ✓
9. Armenian
Turkish ✓
Georgian ✓
Arabic ✓
French ✓
10. Thai
Burmese ✓
Sinhala ✓
Lao ✓
Khmer ✓
11. Hungarian
Romanian ✓
Turkish ✓
Polish ✓
Finnish ✓
12. Ukrainian
Russian ✓
Kazakh ✓
Polish ✓
Bulgarian ✓
13. Arabic
Somali ✓
Wolof ✓
Turkish ✓
Kurdish ✓
14. Nahuatl
Yucatec Maya ✓
Shoshoni ✓
Quechua ✓
Navajo ✓
15. Hausa
Yoruba ✓
Igbo ✓
Hebrew ✓
Malagasy ✓
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JWatson24
+10
Level 71
Jan 18, 2022
Great quiz! Pretty tough too, some of them really made me think. I think it deserves a nomination :)
TheNatureThread
+2
Level 65
Jan 18, 2022
Thanks! I took some time for each one to try and make it hard :)
Tramp
+2
Level 76
May 20, 2022
Armenian is closer to French than Georgian? I'm not doubting you, but how?
Anderis
+7
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.
TheNatureThread
+2
Level 65
May 20, 2022
Yes!
kalbahamut
+2
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...
stylus
+2
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!
TheNatureThread
+1
Level 65
May 20, 2022
Thanks! That was my intention :)
PaterN
+2
Level 78
May 20, 2022
Very interesting, nominated!
TheNatureThread
+1
Level 65
May 20, 2022
Thanks!
NHG
+2
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!
DeepFriedSheep
+2
Level 75
Jun 30, 2022
Amazing quiz! Would never have guessed the connection between Malagasy and Tagalog. Really makes you think.

I got lucky by remembering both Hungarian and Finnish were Uralic though :p

TheNatureThread
+1
Level 65
Jun 30, 2022
Thanks! The first one of my favorite language families, it came from Taiwan but is now spoken in Madagascar and Hawai'i.
Neodymium
+1
Level 59
Mar 12, 2023
Sequel? (Add Telugu)
TheNatureThread
+1
Level 65
Mar 12, 2023
Sure
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