# The Atoz Game (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 24, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920 "2020-01-24T21:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 122
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Computer languages count, yes? ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian > **[Hurrian language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_language)** > > Hurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC. Hurrian was the language of the Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and was likely spoken at least initially in Hurrian settlements in modern-day Syria. It is generally believed that the speakers of this language originally came from the Armenian Highlands and spread over southeast Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia at ... ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean I have a friend who was born in Korea but moved to America when she was a child. She says she can still read Korean but can’t speak it, which I thought was strange. ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian ---
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In case anyone is interested, here are the most commonly spoken languages starting with each letter of the alphabet (spoilered so it doesn’t interfere with the category). Arabic Bengali Chhattisgarhi Dutch English French German Hindi Italian Japanese Korean Lahnda Mandarin Chinese Northern Uzbek Oriya Portuguese Quechua Russian Spanish Telugu Urdu Vietnamese Wu Chinese Xiang Chinese Yue Chinese Zulu ---
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Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Maltese ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Ojibwemowen The language of the Ojibwa. ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Ojibwemowen Portuguese ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Ojibwemowen Portuguese Quiché ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Ojibwemowen Portuguese Quiché Russian ---
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Languages of the World - Past & Present Arabic BASIC Cherokee Danish Esperanto Farsi German Hurrian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Ojibwemowen Portuguese Quiché Russian Slovenian ---
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