Can you name the country with the most people that speak each language? by randomquizzes

Can you name the country with the most people that speak each language?

created by randomquizzes

Enter an answer in the box below
Correctly named answers will show up below
Click any empty Language or Country to answer for that location
Source: Wikipedias list of languages by native speakers
Please give your feedback on this quiz, because I am relatively new to Sporcle. Thank you for taking my quiz.
This quiz has not been verified by Sporcle

Popular trivia games today

Countries That Border Germany

685

The Killer Quiz

669

Hunger Games Death Row

641

Word Ladder: NFL Draft

384

Missing Word: 'D' Songs

281

Geography Bunker

274

Celebrities in Family Guy

249

Which Month? Sports Events

239

And more...

05:00

Show Missed Answers

Language	Country
Javanese
Romanian
Ukrainian
Japanese
Bengali/Bangla
Marathi
French
Tamil
Korean
Russian
Pashto
German
Vietnamese
Igbo
Amharic

Language	Country
Telugu
Thai
Urdu
Portuguese
Tagalog/Filipino
Punjabi
Hindi
Spanish
Arabic (language family)
Turkish
Malay
Chinese (language family)
English
Farsi (Persian)
Italian

Javascript is not currently enabled on your browser.
If you do have Javascript enabled:
This site uses javascript to make the magic happen.
Please turn on javascript and reload this page, or use a more current browser (like Firefox)

Countries Speaking Each Language Quiz

by randomquizzes

Created Nov 25, 2011 in Geography
Game Plays 815

Friend Scores and Standings

Loading friend results....

Top Games Today in Geography

Top Games with Similar Tags

Top User Games in Geography

	fordefr:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 00:21 GMT	5 points
	Only need about 2-3 minutes at the most.

	randomquizzes:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 00:48 GMT	2 points
	Thanks. I knew I forgot something.

	Pillowmint:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 16:49 GMT	1 point
	Wow. DRC's population grew by 20,000,000 since I last checked.

	Lindsay:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT	3 points
	According to wikipedia (which I know is not the most reliable source), only about 24 million (of 71 million) total in DRC speak French. I would imagine the percentage of people in France who speak French must be higher

	CoolBeans:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 19:57 GMT	5 points
	"Myanmarese" is not a thing

	gracie:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 21:15 GMT	3 points
	@lindsay, I was going to correct you saying that the quiz is based on total number of people rather than percentages, but it looks like france wins in that respect too. DRC is the most populous country whose official language is french, but given the low number of actual french speakers, I'd agree that it should be changed.

	marpocky:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 23:42 GMT	4 points
	This would be more interesting with fewer of the obvious ones. I don't think you should cut all of them, or the languages like French and Portuguese would be more obvious that there's a trick, but it's not that fun to go through, say: Japanese, Greek, Hungarian, Thai, Vietnamese, Romanian, Burmese, Polish, Ukrainian, etc. when it's just a matter of naming the country the language is named after, and you KNOW there are no other countries that are even going to come close.

	Andiyan:	Nov 27th, 2011 at 00:15 GMT	2 points
	Forcing to answer per language might be better. Agree with marpocky, maybe for those languages its more interesting to find out what the country is with the second most people that speak that language. :)

	randomquizzes:	Nov 27th, 2011 at 03:08 GMT	0 points
	Myanmarese is the same as Burmese. And I included those languages because they have a lot of speakers. They are easy, though, and if you miss them, fail. I might drop one or two, though. This quiz is doing better than I thought it would, 530 plays in less than 24 hours. Better than my other three quizzes combined---and they're all at least a week or two old. And DRC is huge, and this is NOT based on percentages, by the way.

	randomquizzes:	Nov 27th, 2011 at 03:28 GMT	1 point
	I removed Hungarian, because I added that as a "What the heck" kind of answer anyway. And sorry, DRC is less huge than I initially thought.

	demonstah:	Nov 27th, 2011 at 03:42 GMT	2 points
	Your link has absolutely no bearing on the answers to this quiz - it's only a list of how many speakers of each language, total. As for the French, question, I'd refer you to these two links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#French and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France#Statistics. Clearly, your answer isn't close.

	randomquizzes:	Nov 27th, 2011 at 04:39 GMT	0 points
	I get annoyed when people point out mistakes I have already apologized for or at least addressed in an answer, such as my mistake involving the DRC.

	demonstah:	Nov 27th, 2011 at 14:13 GMT	2 points
	Clearly, you changed it and apologized while I was playing and commenting (you'll notice the timestamps are 14 minutes different). I'm sorry that your apology had not yet appeared when I began mine.

	randomquizzes:	Nov 27th, 2011 at 16:28 GMT	1 point
	It's okay. The mistake is fixed now. Thank you for pointing out my mistake anyway. That way, I know what I have to fix. And I only used the list of languages to eventually get me to links like the ones you mentioned in your comment. This is not by native speakers, but by total speakers. The list of languages just links me to each language, and in turn, links me to countries speaking each language.