TerragolyGuess the Language
Read a sentence and name its language. Is it Danish or Norwegian? Hindi or Urdu?
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How to play
- A sentence appears in one of the world’s most spoken languages.
- Type the language – the box suggests names as you type.
- After each round you see the translation.
What’s in it
- The 30 or so most spoken languages, plus a few well-known ones.
- Real sentences written by people (from Tatoeba), not machine text.
- Practice mode teaches the tells: the letters and words that give a language away.
Questions
- How do I get better at it?
- Play Practice: after each sentence it shows what gives the language away, like special letters or common words.
- Which languages are in it?
- Most of the world’s biggest languages, from Mandarin and Arabic to Swahili and Tagalog. English is left out, since the game is in English.
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