Name a language named after a country (constituent countries count; for example England → English)

What we would type in 25 seconds — rarity × spelling speed, not a dump of the public list.

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25-second pick · +85

Afghani Deep Cut

7 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 116 accepted answers on the sheet

Go past the first country or city a classroom map would show. We would type Afghani: Deep Cut, +85, 7 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Chinese, French, German, or Italian — those are Plankton. The trench answer is Brunei Malay (+100), but only take it if you can spell it cold.

Trench spelling, only if you already know it: Brunei Malay +100

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Hints

Hint 1. 116 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 7 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Albanian

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Afghani · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Afghani Deep Cut 85 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

  • Afghani 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Angolar 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bajan 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Burmese 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Comorian 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Ethiopic 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Faroese 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Kiribati 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Albanian 60 pts
  • Armenian 60 pts
  • Belarusian 60 pts
  • Bengali 60 pts
  • Bosnian 60 pts
  • Bulgarian 60 pts
  • Cambodian 60 pts
  • Croatian 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Chinese 10
  • French 10
  • German 10
  • Italian 10
  • Japanese 10
  • Spanish 10

Public accepted list

Same buckets the game published. We do not re-grade. The pick above is the plan; this block is the record.

Prompt 1 of 1

Name a language named after a country (constituent countries count; for example England → English)

● One in a Krillion · 2 ● Deep Cut · 55 ● Rare · 37 ● Schooler · 16 ● Plankton · 6
One in a Krillion +100 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Brunei Malay +100 ISO 639-3 lists Brunei Malay under the one-word name Brunei.
  • Sranan Tongo +100 Sranan, its creole, is simply the word Surinamese.
Deep Cut +85 55 answers — tap to reveal
  • Afghani +85 Historical Persian texts called Pashto Afghani, after the Afghans.
  • Angolar +85 Angolar, a creole of São Tomé, takes its name from Angola.
  • Antiguan and Barbudan Creole +85 Antigua's English creole, shared with Barbuda and Montserrat.
  • Australian Kriol +85 English creole of northern Australia, spelled Kriol by its speakers.
  • Azerbaijani +85
  • Bahamian Creole +85 Bahamas' English creole, spoken across the islands.
  • Bajan +85 Bajan, the island's creole, is Barbadian said fast.
  • Belizean Creole +85 Belize's English creole, spelled Kriol at home.
  • Burmese +85 Myanmar's constitution calls Burmese the Myanmar language in English.
  • Cameroonian Pidgin +85 Cameroon's pidgin English, Kamtok to linguists.
  • Comorian +85
  • Dominican Creole +85 Dominica's French creole, kin to Saint Lucia's Kwéyòl.
  • Eteocypriot +85 Eteocypriot, the island's pre-Greek tongue, means true Cypriot.
  • Ethiopic +85 Ge'ez, its ancient liturgical tongue, is also called Ethiopic.
  • Faroese +85 Faroese descends from Old Norse across eighteen North Atlantic islands.
  • Ghanaian Pidgin +85 Ghana's pidgin English, cousin of Nigerian Pidgin.
  • Greenlandic +85 Greenlandic is an Inuit language, the only official one on the island.
  • Grenadian Creole +85 Grenada's English creole, with a French creole beside it.
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole +85 Guinea-Bissau's Portuguese creole, the country's real lingua franca.
  • Guyanese Creole +85 Creolese, the national creole, is also called simply Guyanese.
  • Jamaican Patois +85 Jamaica's English creole, filed by linguists as Jamaican Creole.
  • Kabuverdianu +85 Kabuverdianu is the creole's name for itself: Cape Verdean.
  • Kiribati +85 Its language answers to Gilbertese and, at home, simply Kiribati.
  • Kirundi +85
  • Kongo +85 Kongo people named the river, both republics and their tongue, Kikongo.
  • Kyrgyz +85
  • Lao +85
  • Liberian Kreyol +85 Liberia's English creole, known there as Kreyol.
  • Luganda +85 Uganda and Luganda both descend from the kingdom of Buganda.
  • Macedonian +85
  • Maldivian +85 Wikipedia files Dhivehi under Maldivian language.
  • Marshallese +85
  • Mauritian Creole +85 Morisyen, the island creole's own name, means Mauritian.
  • Moldovan +85 Moldova's 2013 court held Moldovan and Romanian are one language.
  • Montenegrin +85 Montenegrin got its own ISO language code only in 2017.
  • Nauruan +85
  • Nigerian Pidgin +85 Nigerian Pidgin is known to scholars as Naijá.
  • Palauan +85
  • Saint Lucian Creole +85 Saint Lucia's French creole, Kwéyòl to its speakers.
  • Sãotomense +85 Its creole Forro is filed by Ethnologue as Sãotomense.
  • Seselwa +85 Seselwa, the creole's own name, is Seychellois in Seychellois.
  • Sesotho +85 Lesotho means land of the Sotho, who speak Sesotho.
  • Setswana +85 Botswana is land of the Tswana, whose language is Setswana.
  • Sierra Leonean Creole +85 Krio, the Sierra Leonean creole that is its lingua franca.
  • Singlish +85 Singlish folds the country's name into an English-based creole.
  • Solomon Islands Pijin +85 Solomon Islands' English creole, spelled Pijin.
  • Swazi +85 Eswatini renamed itself in 2018; siSwati never changed.
  • Syriac +85 Syriac, an Aramaic tongue, still carries the country's name in church.
  • Tajik +85
  • Tongan +85
  • Trinidadian Creole +85 Trinidad's English creole, Trini for short.
  • Turkmen +85
  • Tuvaluan +85
  • Uzbek +85
  • Vincentian Creole +85 Saint Vincent's English creole, called Vincy at home.
Rare +60 37 answers — tap to reveal
  • Albanian +60
  • Armenian +60
  • Belarusian +60
  • Bengali +60 Reversed: the country is named for Bangla, its language.
  • Bosnian +60
  • Bulgarian +60
  • Cambodian +60 Khmer is also called Cambodian in Britannica.
  • Croatian +60
  • Czech +60
  • Egyptian +60 Egyptian, the pharaohs' tongue, survives as liturgical Coptic.
  • Estonian +60
  • Fijian +60
  • Filipino +60
  • Georgian +60
  • Haitian Creole +60 ISO 639-2 names the creole plain Haitian, before Haitian Creole.
  • Hungarian +60
  • Icelandic +60
  • Indonesian +60
  • Kazakh +60
  • Kinyarwanda +60
  • Latvian +60
  • Lithuanian +60
  • Luxembourgish +60
  • Malagasy +60
  • Malaysian +60 Its government's own name for the language, Bahasa Malaysia, is simply Malaysian.
  • Maltese +60
  • Mongolian +60
  • Nepali +60
  • Romanian +60
  • Samoan +60
  • Scots +60
  • Scottish Gaelic +60
  • Serbian +60
  • Slovak +60
  • Slovenian +60
  • Somali +60
  • Taiwanese +60 Taiwanese is the everyday name for the island's Hokkien.
Schooler +30 16 answers — tap to reveal
  • Danish +30
  • Finnish +30
  • Greek +30
  • Irish +30
  • Korean +30
  • Netherlandic +30 Britannica's other name for Dutch is Netherlandic.
  • Norwegian +30
  • Polish +30
  • Portuguese +30
  • Russian +30
  • Swedish +30
  • Thai +30
  • Turkish +30
  • Ukrainian +30
  • Vietnamese +30
  • Welsh +30
Plankton +10 6 answers — tap to reveal
  • Chinese +10
  • French +10
  • German +10
  • Italian +10
  • Japanese +10
  • Spanish +10