Dive #69 · Prompt 2 of 7

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

Every accepted Krillion answer for this prompt from September 22, 2026 — 116 answers across 5 rarity tiers, fully expanded below with point values from the most common pick to the rarest.

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 answersShow 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 answersShow 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 answersShow 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 answersShow 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 answersShow answers

The most common answer on the board.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the rarest Krillion answer for "Name a language named after a country (constituent countries count; for example England → English)"?

The rarest accepted picks on September 22, 2026 were Brunei Malay, Sranan Tongo, in the One in a Krillion tier worth 100 points.

How many answers does the Krillion prompt "Name a language named after a country (constituent countries count; for example England → English)" accept?

This prompt from Dive #69 (September 22, 2026) accepts 116 answers across 5 rarity tiers, all listed on this page.

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