Can you name the country with the most speakers for each of these languages?

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Top Country Per Language Quiz

by Jam1

Created Sep 18, 2010 in Language
Featured Oct 29, 2010
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	Minipoot:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:33 GMT		191 points
	Who else thought they spoke Kannada in Canada?

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	cms479:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:47 GMT		17 points
	Re: yellowdart5, you're probably thinking of India.

	cms479:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:47 GMT		29 points
	I wonder if the quiz writer had any rhyme or reason why he/she picked these languages. Why not Arabic, for example?

	lukebradford:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:48 GMT		10 points
	Would be interesting to see how many unique countries you could have represented. Probably nearly countries all have some language for which that country has the most speakers.

	Jam1:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:54 GMT		9 points
	Yes! I love being published! There is a sequel out which you can try (which has Arabic cms479!): http://www.sporcle.com/games/Jam1/countrylanguage

	Jam1:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:54 GMT		16 points
	@yellowdart: Perhaps, but the quiz only includes first language speakers (people who speak the language as their main language) because not only is it hard to count the total number of speakers, its hard to define what counts as being able to speak a language. How good do you have to be at speaking English to count as an English speaker for example?

	Jerdoggiedog:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:57 GMT		4 points
	^ is probably right but many of these would be really obscure as there are far more languages than countries. I personally would not get ǂQhôã or Luo (which according to Wikipedia had 1 speaker in 1995.)

	alkeiper:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 20:58 GMT		25 points
	@Jam1. Not very well if my high school graduating class is any indication.

	Welius:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 21:41 GMT		3 points
	this quiz is amusing me. Dont know why, dont know how though, what it took me so long to figure out that french is spoken in france.

	tbmusicmaker:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 21:41 GMT		-1 points
	no Magyar (Hungarian)?

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	mustango:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 21:55 GMT		55 points
	I thought the AFLAC duck spoke Gilbertese.

	Stran:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 21:59 GMT		4 points
	For your info, Jerdoggiedog, Luo is spoken by the Jaluo, a very large tribe in Kenya - so I don't know where the idea that there's only one speaker came from!

	johnward:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:11 GMT		3 points
	Polish would have been tough.

	owaincolin:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:37 GMT		7 points
	Either painfully obvious or wildly obscure.

	corndog:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 22:58 GMT		5 points
	@owaincolin: That's not true. Look at the statistics.

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	Mariam:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 23:19 GMT		15 points
	Enjoyed this. Though it does trick you into a false sense of security with English, French, Italian etc only to be confronted with Wu, Kannada, and Tok Pisin!

	Scuadrado:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 23:40 GMT		7 points
	Johnward, That was my immediate reaction too. I went to look up what they were talking about, though, and according to Wikipedia, there's an unrelated, possibly extinct language from Cameroon that happens to also have the name "Luo".

	eggseronius:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 00:22 GMT		6 points
	I knew either Papua New Guinea or Kyrgyzstan had to be represented. I started guessing them when I ran out of the ones I knew.

	jstef1209:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 00:34 GMT		4 points
	I thought Wu was spoken mostly in Staten Island?