Statistics for World Languages by Letter - M

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Clue	Language	% Correct
Most spoken by native speakers	Mandarin	97%
Genghis Khan's native language	Mongolian	95%
"Bahasa" means "language" in it	Malay	91%
Aotearoa is its native home	Māori	82%
Mutually intelligible with Bulgarian	Macedonian	81%
Smallest of the Serbo-Croatian languages	Montenegrin	81%
Official Semitic language of the EU	Maltese	74%
Language of the Isle of Man	Manx	64%
Official language of Maharashtra	Marathi	61%
Native American language with namesake of an unsual hairstyle	Mohawk	61%
Spoken mainly in northeastern China	Manchu	55%
Official language of Kerala	Malayalam	52%
Westernmost Austronesian language	Malagasy	51%
Main Chinese dialect of Taiwan	Min Nan	51%
Spoken in the movie "Apocalypto"	Mayan	40%
Spoken mainly on the Indonesian island of Madura	Madurese	38%
East African language aka "Maa"	Maasai	34%
Southernmost Indo-European language, before the European expansion	Maldivian	30%
Nepal's second-most spoken. Also spoken in neighboring India	Maithili	29%
Burkina Faso's largest local language	Mossi	23%