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100

This country's less widely-spoken languages are Indigenous/First Nations languages, which include Inuktitut and Cree.

What is Canada?

100

This language, though it looks similar to its surrounding Scandinavian languages, is actually extremely different from it and has origins in Proto-Uralic, as does Hungarian.

What is Finnish?

100

What IPA stands for.

What is International Phonetic Alphabet?

100

Known for its use of hieroglyphics, this language originated in northeast Africa and is now extinct.

What is Ancient Egyptian?

100

Ελληνικά

What is Greek?

200

This island is where Rapa Nui is spoken and is part of Chile.

What is Easter Island?

200

This Native American language was used in World War II to encode secret messages.

What is Navajo?

200

A type of language that comes from other languages getting simplified, then gets turned into its own language that becomes widely spoken in a short amount of time.

What is creole?

200

This language, originating in 9th century Central Europe, is based on High German and is considered a West Germanic language, but it also combines elements of Hebrew.

What is Yiddish?

200

svenska

What is Swedish?

300

This country hosts most of the Dravidian languages, such as Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam.

What is India?

300

This language spoken in a small part of Spain and France is an absolute isolate: no correlation between it or any other living language has been found.

What is Basque?

300

The section of linguistics that studies the sounds of languages.

What is phonology?

300

This language family contains languages spoken by the Inca Empire.

What is Quechua?

300

Српски

What is Serbian?

400

This island country is home to many different Austronesian languages, such as Malagasy and around twenty Barito languages, which is unique to this country because the continent it belongs to does not otherwise speak Austronesian languages.

What is Madagascar?

400

The language spoken by the native people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurils.

What is Ainu?

400

This hypothetical yet controversial language family contains the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic language families.

What is Altaic?
400

This language uses its own traditional script, as well as the Cyrillic alphabet. It is also the language that was spoken by those from the largest contiguous empire in history.

What is Mongolian?

400

བོད་སྐད་

What is Tibetan?

500

This country is home to many different ethnic groups such as the Sakha, Tatars, and Dolgans, who speak Turkic languages.

What is Russia?

500

This language is spoken by the Indigenous population of New Zealand and used to be its majority language until English made it a minority language.

What is Māori?

500

The name for the boundary on a map that separates places which have differing linguistic features.

What is isogloss?

500

This is the proposed Indo-European language that is the ancestor of all other Indo-European languages.

What is Proto-Indo-European?

500

ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ

What is Inuktitut?

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