Geoguessr Language Identification

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ñ á é í ó ú

Characteristics: -o, -a, -ción, -miento, -dad

Language: Spanish

Regions: Spain, Latin America (not Brazil), Carribbean (not Haiti), Philippines (creole)

Script: ABCD

Special characters: â ç è é ê î ô û, never á í ì ó ò ú

Characteristics: l'-, d'-, -aux, -eux, -oux

Language: French

Regions: France, Belgium, Canada, West/Central Africa (not Nigeria), Madagascar

Script: ABCD

Special characters: à è ì ò ù (often at end of word)

Characteristics: -o, -a, -zione, -mento, -tà, -aggio, -gli-, -gn-, -sci-, double consonants

Language: Italian

Regions: Italy, Switzerland

Script: ABCD

Special characters: à è é í ï ò ó ú ü ç ·

Characteristics: -tz-, -tx-, -tg-, -aig, -eig, -oig, -uig, -aix, -eix, -oix, -uix, -o, -a, -es, -ció, -tat, -ment

Language: Catalan

Regions: Spain, Andorra

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ă â î ș ț

Characteristics: -a, -ă, -u, -ul, -ului, -ţie, -ment, -tate, double and triple i (ii iii)

Language: Romanian

Regions: Romania, Moldova

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ã õ â ê ô á é í ó ú à ç

Characteristics: -ção, -dade, -ismo, -mente, -ch-, -nh-, -lh-

Language: Portuguese

Regions: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique

Script: ABCD

Special characters: None

Characteristics: -ij-, -ei, -kw-, -sch-, -tje, -sje, -ing, -en, -lijk, double vowels (not ii)

Language: Dutch

Regions: Netherlands, Belgium

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ä ö ü ß

Characteristics: -ch-, -sch-, -tsch-, -en, -er, -ern, -st, -ung, -chen, -tät, long words

Language: German

Regions: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Namibia

Script: ABCD

Special characters: å ä ö

Characteristics: -stj-, -sj-, -skj-, -tj-, -ck-, -än-

Language: Swedish

Regions: Sweden

Script: ABCD

Special characters: æ ø å

Characteristics: -tion, -ing, -else, -hed, -øj-

Language: Danish

Regions: Denmark, Greenland

Script: ABCD

Special characters: æ ø å

Characteristics: -sjon, -ing, -else, -het, -øy-

Language: Norwegian

Regions: Norway

Script: ABCD

Special characters: á ð é í ó ú ý þ æ ö

Characteristics: fj-, gj-, hj-, hl-, hr-, hv-, kj-, -ar, -ir, -ur, -nn

Language: Icelandic

Regions: Iceland

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ā č ē ģ ī ķ ļ ņ ō ŗ š ū ž, never q w x y

Characteristics: ir, bija, tika, es, viņš

Language: Latvian

Regions: Latvia

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ą č ę ė į š ų ū ž, never q w x

Characteristics: ir, yra, kad, bet

Language: Lithuanian

Regions: Lithuania

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ą ę ć ś ł ń ó ż ź

Characteristics: -rz-, -sz-, -cz-, -prz-, -trz-

Language: Polish

Regions: Poland

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ů ř

ž š ě, never ä ľ ĺ ŕ ô

Characteristics: je, v

Language: Czech

Regions: Czech Republic

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ä ŕ

ž š č ľ and ô, never ě ř or ů

Characteristics: -cia, -ť

Language: Slovak

Regions: Slovakia

Script: ABCD

Special characters: đ

č ć š ž

Characteristics: -dž-, -lj-, -nj-, -ti, -ći, -ije-, -je-, -irati, -iran

Language: Croatian

Regions: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Script: ABCD / AДИЛ

Special characters: č ć š ž

Characteristics: -dž-, -lj-, -nj-, -ti, -ći, a, je, jeste

Special characters: Ђ Ћ

Џ Ј Љ Њ, never Ѕ Ѓ Ќ

Language: Serbian

Regions: Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia

Script: ABCD

Special characters: â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ

Characteristics: -ion, -au, -wr, -wyr, -wy-, -ch-, -dd-, -ff-

Language: Welsh

Regions: United Kingdom

Script: ABCD

Special characters: á é í ó ú, never j k q v w

Characteristics: bp-, dt-, gc-, bhf-, -bh-, -ch-, -dh-, -fh-, second/third letter of words sometimes capitalized

Language: Irish

Regions: Ireland

Script: ABCD

Special characters: à è ì ò ù

Characteristics: -sg-, -chd-, -bh-, -ch-, -dh-, -fh-, hyphenated prefixes

Language: Scottish Gaelic

Regions: United Kingdom

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ë ç.

Characteristics: po, jo, dhe, i, të, me

Language: Albanian

Regions: Albania

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ċ ġ ħ ż

Characteristics: il-

Language: Maltese

Regions: Malta

Script: ABCD / ﺕﺏ‏آ

Special characters: ê î û ç ş

Characteristics: xwe

Language: Kurdish

Regions: Turkey, Iran, Iraq

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ä ö, never õ ü

Characteristics: sinä, on, -nen, -ka/-kä, -in, -t, -ai-, -uo-, -ei-, double letters common

Language: Finnish

Regions: Finland

Script: ABCD

Special characters: õ ä ö ü, never ß å y

Characteristics: -d

Language: Estonian

Regions: Estonia

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ő ű á é

Characteristics: -cs-, -gy-, -ly-, -ny-, -sz-, leg-, -obb, és, van, hogy

Language: Hungarian

Regions: Hungary, Romania

Script: ABCD

Special characters: None

Characteristics: long words, q and n common, double letters common

Language: Greenlandic

Regions: Greenland

Script: ABCD

Special characters: g̃

Characteristics: tildes over vowels common

Language: Guaraní

Regions: Paraguay

Script: ABCD

Special characters: multiple diacritics above single letter

Characteristics: ng-, ngh-, -nh, cái, không, có, ở, của

Language: Vietnamese

Regions: Vietnam

Script: ABCD

Special characters: None

Characteristics: me-, mem-, memper-, pe-, -kan, -an, -i, yang, dan, di, ke

Language: Malay/Indonesian

Regions: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ç ğ ı ö ş ü, never ə

Characteristics: bir, bu, ancak, şu, -lar, -ler, -im -un -ın

Language: Turkish

Regions: Turkey, Cyprus

Script: ABCD

Special characters: ç ğ ı ö ş ü ə

Characteristics: və, ki, ilə, bu, -lar, -lər, -ın

Language: Azeri

Regions: Azerbaijan, Iran

Script: 汉字 / 漢字

Characteristics: no spaces, complicated characters

Language: Chinese languages

Regions: China, Singapore, Taiwan

Script: カタカ / ひらが / 漢字

Characteristics: no spaces, circles on upper right (ぱ ぴ)

Language: Japanese

Regions: Japan, Palau

Script: 한국어/조선말

Characteristics: spaces used, circles common in characters, less complex characters

Language: Korean

Regions: South Korea, North Korea

Script: ភាសារខ្មែរ

Characteristics: no spaces, taller letters, various diacritics

Language: Khmer

Regions: Cambodia

Script: Ελληνικά

Language: Greek

Regions: Greece

Script: Հայերեն

Language: Armenian

Regions: Armenia

Script: ქართული

Language: Georgian

Regions: Georgia

Script: AДИЛ

Special characters: ё і й ў ы э ' шч, never и

Language: Belarusian

Regions: Belarus

Script: AДИЛ

Special characters: ъ

щ я ю й

Characteristics: -ът, -ят, -та, -то, -те

Language: Bulgarian

Regions: Bulgaria

Script: AДИЛ

Special characters: ѓ ќ

ѕ љ њ џ

Characteristics: во, со, p between consonants

Language: Macedonian

Regions: North Macedonia

Script: AДИЛ

Special characters: ё й ы э щ

Language: Russian

Regions: Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

Script: AДИЛ

Special characters: є ї

и і й ґ є щ ', never ъ ё ы э

Language: Ukrainian

Regions: Ukraine

Script: فارسی

Characteristics:

پ, چ, ژ, گ

که, به

Language: Persian / Farsi

Regions: Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan

Script: ﺕﺏ‏آ

Characteristics:

-ال

ة-

Language: Arabic

Regions: North Africa, Middle East

Script: اردو

Characteristics:

ے ں ڑ

اور, ہے

"slants" downwards from top-right to bottom-left‎

Language: Urdu

Regions: Pakistan, India

Script: ಕನ್ನಡ

Language: Kannada

Regions: India

Script: हिन्दुस्तानी

Characteristics: line over all characters

Language: Hindi

Regions: India

Script: தமிழ்

Language: Tamil

Regions: India, Sri Lanka, Singapore

Script: עִבְרִית

Language: Hebrew

Regions: Israel

Script: বাংলা

Characteristics: line over all characters

Language: Bengali

Regions: Bangladesh, India

Script: ภาษาไทย

Language: Thai

Regions: Thailand

Script: ພາສາລາວ

Language: Lao

Regions: Laos

Norway, Sweden, or Denmark?

Sweden uses ö and ä

Norway and Denmark use ø and æ

Russia or Ukraine?

Russia uses ы, ъ, and э

Ukraine uses ґ and є

Finland or Estonia?

Estonia uses õ

Latvia or Lithuania?

Latvia uses macrons more often (ā ē ī ō and ū)

Japan or Korea?

Korean looks more geometric, has more circles inside characters. Japanese only has circles on the upper right corner of characters

Cambodia or Thailand?

Thai has more straight lines and hollow circles. Khmer (Cambodia) is "bigger", more freeform with varying line thicknesses, and has few straight lines