Languagedle shows you a sentence and asks which language it is written in. The sentence is always a translation of the same text: Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After every guess four attributes are compared so you can see how close you landed. Tries are unlimited.
The attributes compared
Family. Indo-European, Turkic, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Niger-Congo, Dravidian, Uralic and the rest.
Script. Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Hangul, Japanese, Thai. Look at the sentence and you already know half of it.
Region. Where the language is mostly spoken.
Speakers. Native plus second-language, in millions. Arrows tell you whether the target has more or fewer.
Tips
Read the script first. The sentence is right there, so Cyrillic versus Latin is free information that cuts the pool hard.
If it is Latin, hunt the diacritics. ł means Polish, ő means Hungarian, ğ means Turkish, å points at Scandinavia.
Family and region work together. Indo-European is enormous; the region column splits it between Western Europe and South Asia.
Treat the speaker arrow as a binary search. The pool runs from Navajo to English, three orders of magnitude apart.
Where the texts come from
The sample sentences are official translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is public domain. All 115 languages use scripts that render on stock system fonts, so no device ends up staring at empty boxes. Right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian and Hebrew are rendered in the correct direction.
Multiplayer
Open a room and everyone gets the same language. Who solved it in how many tries shows live in the player rail beside the board. No account needed, just share the room link.