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Odd Language Out
Each group of answers contains two related and one less-related language; can you guess the odd one out?
Each language's classification follows Wikipedia
A few languages are dead
Not all questions cover the same-size language families or groups
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Last updated: July 19, 2023
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| First submitted | July 18, 2023 |
| Times taken | 36 |
| Average score | 45.0% | Report this quiz | Report |
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1.
Which language is less-related?
German
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Hungarian
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Hindi
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Hindi and German are Indo-European; Hungarian is Uralic.
2.
Which language is less-related?
Latin
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Greek
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Aramaic
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Latin and Greek are Indo-European; Aramaic is Afro-Asiatic.
3.
Which language is less-related?
English
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Swedish
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French
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English and Swedish are Germanic languages; French is Italic.
4.
Which language is less-related?
Polish
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Bulgarian
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Armenian
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Polish and Bulgarian are Slavic languages; Armenian is in its own Indo-European branch, Armenian.
5.
Which language is less-related?
Yucatec Maya
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Nahuatl
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Comanche
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Comanche and Nahuatl are Uto-Aztecan, Yucatec Maya is Mayan.
6.
Which language is less-related?
Lakota
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Tlingit
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Navajo
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Navajo and Tlingit are Na-Dené languages; Lakota is Siouan.
7.
Which language is less-related?
Spanish
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Basque
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Irish
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Spanish and Irish are Indo-European; Basque is an isolate.
8.
Which language is less-related?
Sinhala
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Tamil
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Malayalam
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Tamil and Malayalam are Dravidian languages; Sinhala is Indo-European.
9.
Which language is less-related?
Persian
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Berber
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Arabic
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Arabic and Berber are Afro-Asiatic languages; Persian is Indo-European.
10.
Which language is less-related?
Georgian
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Azerbaijani
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Turkish
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Turkish and Azerbaijani are Turkic languages; Georgian is Kartvelian.
11.
Which language is less-related?
Norwegian
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Russian
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Finnish
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Norwegian and Russian are Indo-European languages; Finnish is Uralic.
12.
Which language is less-related?
Guarani
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Southern Quechua
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Tupí
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Guarani and Tupí are Tupian languages; Southern Quechua is Quechuan.
13.
Which language is less-related?
Mongolian
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Kazakh
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Kyrgyz
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Kazakh and Kyrgyz are Turkic languages; Mongolian is Mongolic.
14.
Which language is less-related?
Thai
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Indonesian
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Tagalog
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Tagalog and Indonesian are Austronesian languages; Thai is Kra-Dai.
15.
Which language is less-related?
Nepali
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Mandarin
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Tibetan
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Mandarin and Tibetan are Sino-Tibetan; Nepali is Indo-European.
16.
Which language is less-related?
Cantonese
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Japanese
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Burmese
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Burmese and Cantonese are Sino-Tibetan languages; Japanese is Japonic.
17.
Which language is less-related?
Hebrew
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Amharic
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Somali
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Amharic and Hebrew are Semitic languages; Somali is Cushitic.
18.
Which language is less-related?
Dutch
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Danish
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Luxembourgish
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Dutch and Luxembourgish are West Germanic; Danish is North Germanic.
19.
Which language is less-related?
Malagasy
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Comorian
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Zulu
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Zulu and Comorian are Bantu languages; Malagasy is Austronesian.
20.
Which language is less-related?
Swahili
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Yoruba
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Xhosa
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Xhosa and Swahili are Bantu languages; Yoruba is Yoruboid.
partdavid
+2
Level 71
Jul 18, 2023
I suspect it's a little too difficult to be fun, but I wanted to get a variety of language families and areas represented and a decent number of questions. There's a fair number you can puzzle out with a little linguistic knowledge and logic and some more obscure ones. I tried to avoid any edge cases or controversies. Enjoy!
cuotak
+3
Level 67
Jul 18, 2023
Q4 and 17 the answers and explanations don't match.
partdavid
+1
Level 71
Jul 19, 2023
Thank you! Fixed.
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