Guess the Language

How to Play

  • - See a country and its flag, then pick its official language: 4 options, 10 a round
  • - Each level asks every country once; the ones you miss come back at the end
  • - Territories are a bonus set after the four levels

Pick your level

Learn the material

AdvertisementRemove ads

About Guess the Language

The Language Quiz turned around

Here you are shown a country and its flag and asked which language is official there, with four languages to pick from. It is the reverse of the Language Quiz, which shows the language and asks for a country. The 195 countries are split 50, 50, 50 and 45 across Easy to Extreme, each level asks every country once, ten a round, and misses come back at the end.

Answers that are not what you expect

The quiz is easiest where the language carries the country’s name and hardest where history put a different one in charge. Brazil answers Portuguese, as do Angola and Mozambique; Suriname answers Dutch and Equatorial Guinea Spanish. Belize, Guyana, Mauritius and the Seychelles all answer English; Chad and Cameroon answer French. Switzerland is listed under German and Belgium under Dutch, the language of the larger community in each. Malta has Maltese, Luxembourg Luxembourgish, and Vanuatu Bislama, an English-based creole.

Related