Statistics for World Languages A-Z

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	Clue	Language	% Correct
A	Language of the Quran	Arabic	96%
G	"Eins, zwei, drei" is how you'd count to three	German	92%
L	Language of ancient Rome	Latin	91%
H	Official language of Israel	Hebrew	90%
C	Variety of Chinese spoken in the Hong Kong region	Cantonese	84%
D	Afrikaans is derived from this language	Dutch	82%
I	The only Celtic language to be an official language of a country	Irish	82%
R	Romance language spoken in a certain country in Eastern Europe	Romanian	78%
J	Can be written in Kana, Hiragana, and Kanji scripts	Japanese	77%
V	Most spoken language in Indochina	Vietnamese	73%
Y	Jewish language that developed in Eastern Europe	Yiddish	72%
F	What Paavo Nurmi spoke. Known in its own language as Suomi.	Finnish	71%
B	Language of northern Spain not closely related to any others	Basque	69%
U	Spoken in the city of Lviv	Ukrainian	68%
Z	Most spoken language in South Africa	Zulu	67%
T	Dominant language of Anatolia	Turkish	65%
S	Lingua franca of Tanzania and Kenya	Swahili	63%
K	Official language of Cambodia	Khmer	62%
N	Has the most speakers of any Native American language in the United States	Navajo	60%
E	Created in 1887, it was intended to be a universal language	Esperanto	55%
W	Variety of Chinese spoken in the Shanghai region	Wu	54%
P	This language of India and Pakistan is the most spoken that is not the official language of any country	Punjabi	52%
X	Nelson Mandela's mother tongue	Xhosa	41%
Q	The main language of the Incan Empire, still spoken today	Quechua	33%
M	Official language of Madagascar	Malagasy	28%
O	Most commonly-spoken language in Ethiopia	Oromo	14%