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“Think You’re Multilingual?”: Unscramble These 20 Languages And Prove It

“Think You’re Multilingual?”: Unscramble These 20 Languages And Prove It

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Did you know that there are 7,139 officially known languages in the world? Humans created thousands of unique ways to communicate and connect. That’s super impressive, isn’t it? We have no idea how long it would take you to learn even half of them, but we can certainly introduce them to you bit by bit. Do you have the curiosity to know and learn the different languages created by mankind? We hope your answer is yes!

For this purpose, we gathered 20 different languages and created the second part of the language quiz. Everything is very simple: we give you a passage from a song or poem, and you have to guess which language it is.

If you missed the first part of this quiz, you can test your skills here.

Are you ready for a language adventure? Let’s get started! 🌎

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    Trivia Decode These 20 Languages

    Text in Finnish on gradient background. Keywords: Decode Languages.

    1. Guess the language:

    Finnish

    Polish

    Estonian

    Hungarian

    Text in Danish: "Men min angst maa forløses i længsel..." on a green background.

    2. Identify this language:

    Swedish

    Danish

    Norwegian

    Icelandic

    Text in Chinese script on teal background, inviting to decode the language.

    3. Decode the language:

    Japanese

    Vietnamese

    Chinese

    Sanskrit

    Text in Maltese on a blue to yellow gradient background, related to language translation.

    4. What is this language?

    Greek

    Italian

    Arabic

    Maltese

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    Text in an Serbian language displayed on a pink background.

    5. Guess the language:

    Slovenian

    Croatian

    Serbian

    Ukrainian

    Text in Estonian on a beige background.

    6. Identify the language:

    Czech

    Latvian

    Estonian

    Polish

    Text in Georgian script on a purple background, showcasing the language.

    7. What is this language?

    Georgian

    Turkish

    Arabic

    Indonesian

    Text on a gradient background in Indonesian to decode, featuring a reflective poem.

    8. Decode the language:

    Indonesian

    Persian

    Greek

    Armenian

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    Text in a Somali language on a pink background, exploring language decoding.

    9. What is this language?

    Sanskrit

    Dutch

    Somali

    Inuktitut

    Green background with text in the Armenian language, displaying phrases for language decoding.

    10. Identify this language:

    Turkish

    Armenian

    Azerbaijani

    Persian

    Text in Norwegian on a gradient background for language decoding.

    11. Guess the language:

    Icelandic

    Swedish

    Danish

    Norwegian

    Text in Hawaiian displayed on a blue background, showcasing native language richness.

    12. Identify this language:

    Tahitian

    Māori

    Hawaiian

    Samoan

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    Text in Hebrew on an orange background, representing one of the languages to decode.

    13. What is this language?

    Yiddish

    Arabic

    Hebrew

    Persian

    Text on a colorful gradient background in the Mongolian language.

    14. Decode this language:

    Tibetan

    Polish

    Ukrainian

    Mongolian

    Text in the Esperanto language on a teal background for language decoding challenge.

    15. Guess this language:

    Esperanto

    Latin

    Catalan

    Spanish

    Text in Persian script on a purple background, related to decoding languages.

    16. Decode this language:

    Korean

    Persian

    Japanese

    Hindi

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    Text in Polish about uniqueness and routine on a gradient orange background.

    17. What is this language?

    Czech

    Slovak

    Polish

    Latvian

    Text in Czech on a pink background, featuring a romantic poem excerpt.

    18. Guess this language:

    Croatian

    Slovak

    Lithuanian

    Czech

    Bengali text on a gradient background, starting with "আমার সোনার বাংলা" from the song.

    19. Decode this language:

    Bengali

    Hindi

    Urdu

    Chinese

    Text in Croatian language on a green background; exploring language decoding.

    20. What is this language?

    Croatian

    Greek

    Bulgarian

    Macedonian

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    Nilsen
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    10 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Croatian and Serbian are different languages, the "languages" in Maine and Texas would be different languages too. There are more linguistic differences between New England dialect and Texan dialect than between Croatian and Serbian (add Bosnian and Montenegrin to this group), but there are national borders between the countries.

    Bat cat in a hat
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    9 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's very interesting, Nilsen. It might explain why I could easily and correctly distinguish between Nordic languages, but not at all regarding Slavic languages (I'm a native Portuguese speaker btw)

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    Nilsen
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    10 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Croatian and Serbian are different languages, the "languages" in Maine and Texas would be different languages too. There are more linguistic differences between New England dialect and Texan dialect than between Croatian and Serbian (add Bosnian and Montenegrin to this group), but there are national borders between the countries.

    Bat cat in a hat
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    9 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's very interesting, Nilsen. It might explain why I could easily and correctly distinguish between Nordic languages, but not at all regarding Slavic languages (I'm a native Portuguese speaker btw)

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