Alright, all you linguistic legends, it's time to put your language identification skills to the test! Whether you're a polyglot who can recognize the subtle nuances of different scripts and dialects, or you're just a curious language lover looking to expand your horizons, this quiz is about to have you feeling like a real-life Babel fish.
In this super fun and challenging assessment, we'll show you a series of short text samples and ask you to guess which language they're written in. Can you spot the flowing cursive of Arabic or the angular characters of Mandarin Chinese? Maybe you've got an ear for the melodic rhythms of Hindi or the guttural consonants of German. No matter how many (or how few) languages you have under your belt, this quiz is about to put your linguistic prowess to the ultimate test. Get ready to flex those language-identifying muscles and prove once and for all that you're a true wordsmith extraordinaire.
Ready to show off your linguistic superpowers? Click the button below to take the quiz and see how many of these mystery languages you can crack!
In what language is it written in?
This way this word is written in...
Swedish
German
Welsh
Czech
In what language is it written in: "Я тебе кохаю"?
If you want to say
Bulgarian
Belorussian
Ukrainian
Polish
In what language is it written in?
Arabic
Georgian
Turkish
Hindi
In what language is it written in: "Ma bucur de cunostinta"?
If you're in Romania and want to say
Roumanian
German
French
Portuguese
In what language is it written in?
This word is read this way
Korean
Chinese
Japanese
Thai
In what language is it written in: "Ас болсын"?
In Kazakh it means
Uzbek
Kazakh
Azerbaijanian
Armenian
In what language is it written in?
Greek
Bengali
Indonesian
Sanskrit
In what language is it written in: "아니요"?
If you want to say
Japanese
Chinese
Thai
Korean
In what language is it written in?
Hebrew
Georgian
Armenian
Hindi
In what language is it written in: "Bom dia"?
Portuguese
Spanish
Italian
French
In what language is it written in?
Reads as
Icelandic
Swedish
English
French
In what language is it written in: "Уstävyys"?
If you go to Finland to make new friends, you need to keep in mind this word, it means
Faroese
Finnish
Swedish
Danish
In what language is it written in?
In Spanish
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Plosh
In what language is it written in: "češnjak"?
Now you know how the best weapon against vampires is named in Croatia.
Slovenian
Roumanian
Croatian
Serbian
In what language is it written in?
A great phrase for those who go to a market in Thailand:
Bengali
Vietnamese
Hindi
Thai
Keep calm and carry on
It seems you're out of your way to foreigners... And maybe you didn't find "that only one"? Listen to a song in Japanese, watch an Italian movie with subs. Experiment and you'll find a language you'd like to master.
You're a true polyglot!
You've taken the quiz almost perfectly, congrats! Your inner linguist is absolutely certain that you're able to knock out even Chinese or Hebrew. Maybe you should try?