Prompt 2 of 7
Name a language named after a country (constituent countries count; for example England → English)
116 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Brunei Malay— ISO 639-3 lists Brunei Malay under the one-word name Brunei.
- Sranan Tongo— Sranan, its creole, is simply the word Surinamese.
85 ptsDeep Cut55 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Afghani— Historical Persian texts called Pashto Afghani, after the Afghans.
- Angolar— Angolar, a creole of São Tomé, takes its name from Angola.
- Antiguan and Barbudan Creole— Antigua's English creole, shared with Barbuda and Montserrat.
- Australian Kriol— English creole of northern Australia, spelled Kriol by its speakers.
- Azerbaijani
- Bahamian Creole— Bahamas' English creole, spoken across the islands.
- Bajan— Bajan, the island's creole, is Barbadian said fast.
- Belizean Creole— Belize's English creole, spelled Kriol at home.
- Burmese— Myanmar's constitution calls Burmese the Myanmar language in English.
- Cameroonian Pidgin— Cameroon's pidgin English, Kamtok to linguists.
- Comorian
- Dominican Creole— Dominica's French creole, kin to Saint Lucia's Kwéyòl.
- Eteocypriot— Eteocypriot, the island's pre-Greek tongue, means true Cypriot.
- Ethiopic— Ge'ez, its ancient liturgical tongue, is also called Ethiopic.
- Faroese— Faroese descends from Old Norse across eighteen North Atlantic islands.
- Ghanaian Pidgin— Ghana's pidgin English, cousin of Nigerian Pidgin.
- Greenlandic— Greenlandic is an Inuit language, the only official one on the island.
- Grenadian Creole— Grenada's English creole, with a French creole beside it.
- Guinea-Bissau Creole— Guinea-Bissau's Portuguese creole, the country's real lingua franca.
- Guyanese Creole— Creolese, the national creole, is also called simply Guyanese.
- Jamaican Patois— Jamaica's English creole, filed by linguists as Jamaican Creole.
- Kabuverdianu— Kabuverdianu is the creole's name for itself: Cape Verdean.
- Kiribati— Its language answers to Gilbertese and, at home, simply Kiribati.
- Kirundi
- Kongo— Kongo people named the river, both republics and their tongue, Kikongo.
- Kyrgyz
- Lao
- Liberian Kreyol— Liberia's English creole, known there as Kreyol.
- Luganda— Uganda and Luganda both descend from the kingdom of Buganda.
- Macedonian
- Maldivian— Wikipedia files Dhivehi under Maldivian language.
- Marshallese
- Mauritian Creole— Morisyen, the island creole's own name, means Mauritian.
- Moldovan— Moldova's 2013 court held Moldovan and Romanian are one language.
- Montenegrin— Montenegrin got its own ISO language code only in 2017.
- Nauruan
- Nigerian Pidgin— Nigerian Pidgin is known to scholars as Naijá.
- Palauan
- Saint Lucian Creole— Saint Lucia's French creole, Kwéyòl to its speakers.
- Sãotomense— Its creole Forro is filed by Ethnologue as Sãotomense.
- Seselwa— Seselwa, the creole's own name, is Seychellois in Seychellois.
- Sesotho— Lesotho means land of the Sotho, who speak Sesotho.
- Setswana— Botswana is land of the Tswana, whose language is Setswana.
- Sierra Leonean Creole— Krio, the Sierra Leonean creole that is its lingua franca.
- Singlish— Singlish folds the country's name into an English-based creole.
- Solomon Islands Pijin— Solomon Islands' English creole, spelled Pijin.
- Swazi— Eswatini renamed itself in 2018; siSwati never changed.
- Syriac— Syriac, an Aramaic tongue, still carries the country's name in church.
- Tajik
- Tongan
- Trinidadian Creole— Trinidad's English creole, Trini for short.
- Turkmen
- Tuvaluan
- Uzbek
- Vincentian Creole— Saint Vincent's English creole, called Vincy at home.
60 ptsRare37 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Belarusian
- Bengali— Reversed: the country is named for Bangla, its language.
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Cambodian— Khmer is also called Cambodian in Britannica.
- Croatian
- Czech
- Egyptian— Egyptian, the pharaohs' tongue, survives as liturgical Coptic.
- Estonian
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Georgian
- Haitian Creole— ISO 639-2 names the creole plain Haitian, before Haitian Creole.
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Kazakh
- Kinyarwanda
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Luxembourgish
- Malagasy
- Malaysian— Its government's own name for the language, Bahasa Malaysia, is simply Malaysian.
- Maltese
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Romanian
- Samoan
- Scots
- Scottish Gaelic
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Taiwanese— Taiwanese is the everyday name for the island's Hokkien.
30 ptsSchooler16 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Danish
- Finnish
- Greek
- Irish
- Korean
- Netherlandic— Britannica's other name for Dutch is Netherlandic.
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
10 ptsPlankton6 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish