Languagle Answer Archive

Every past day, in order

Every language Languagle has featured so far, most recent first. Today's answer is never listed here, only what's already been played.

#83: Herero · November 6, 2026 · "The hands wash each other."
#82: Ganda · November 5, 2026 · "Those who love each other are never short of room."
#81: Malay · November 4, 2026 · "Raft upriver, swim to the bank; suffer first, enjoy later."
#80: Zulu · November 3, 2026 · "Cunning people do not build their homes next to each other."
#79: Maltese · November 2, 2026 · "A tender heart dies poor."
#78: Odia · November 1, 2026 · "Feeling for the elephant in the dark."
#77: Macedonian · October 31, 2026 · "The tongue is sharper even than the sabre."
#76: Maori · October 30, 2026 · "Unlike a canoe rope, a bond between people cannot be severed."
#75: Hindi · October 29, 2026 · "What use regretting now, when the birds have already eaten the field?"
#74: Western Frisian · October 28, 2026 · "When the cat is out of the house, the mouse lifts its tail."
#73: Wolof · October 27, 2026 · "Slowly, slowly, you catch the monkey in the bush."
#72: Estonian · October 26, 2026 · "The work praises the one who did it."
#71: Tsonga · October 25, 2026 · "When you go before a lion, you take fire with you."
#70: Telugu · October 24, 2026 · "Unpleasantness at the start is better than unpleasantness at the end."
#69: Navajo · October 23, 2026 · "I set out in vain. The Navajo way of saying "I'm tired.""
#68: Kikuyu · October 22, 2026 · "People with no agreement between them are beaten with a single club."
#67: Dutch · October 21, 2026 · "The last little weights are the heaviest."
#66: Tibetan · October 20, 2026 · "If you are a talented man, every one gathers round about you, without being called; a scented flower, though it be at a far distance, is surrounded with a cloud of swarming wasps."
#65: Romanian · October 19, 2026 · "Money makes money, and lice make more lice."
#64: Tagalog · October 18, 2026 · "Without perseverance, there is no stew."
#63: Scots · October 17, 2026 · "A pretty bride is soon dressed, and a short horse is soon groomed."
#62: Korean · October 16, 2026 · "Birds hear what's said by day, and mice hear what's said by night."
#61: Samoan · October 15, 2026 · "Words don't break the body."
#60: Zhuang · October 14, 2026 · "Eat rice and think of the field; eat fish and think of the river."
#59: Bambara · October 13, 2026 · "Water knows no king."
#58: Serbian · October 12, 2026 · "If you make yourself a bridge, everyone will walk over you."
#57: Catalan · October 11, 2026 · "Whoever gets through a day pushes the year along."
#56: Tswana · October 10, 2026 · "Don't laugh at the one who has fallen."
#55: Marshallese · October 9, 2026 · "We fathom the sea and reach its bottom, but not the human heart."
#54: Urdu · October 8, 2026 · "The mangoes for eating, and money for the stones as well."
#53: Basque · October 7, 2026 · "With a good friend, the hours are short."
#52: Uzbek · October 6, 2026 · "The earth is the treasure; labour is the key to it."
#51: Somali · October 5, 2026 · "A Somali may tell a lie, but a Somali proverb never lies."
#50: Spanish · October 4, 2026 · "From saying to doing, there's quite a stretch."
#49: Venetian · October 3, 2026 · "One hour of cheerfulness is worth a hundred of gloom."
#48: Ukrainian · October 2, 2026 · "Nobody was born wise. They learned it."
#47: Aymara · October 1, 2026 · "For the young, hills are flat ground, and flat ground is hills."
#46: French · September 30, 2026 · "It's by forging that one becomes a blacksmith."
#45: Cantonese · September 29, 2026 · "If the ox won't drink, you can't push its head down."
#44: Azerbaijani · September 28, 2026 · "Not knowing is no shame; not asking is."
#43: Khmer · September 27, 2026 · "Drop by drop, the bamboo tube fills."
#42: Igbo · September 26, 2026 · "Numbers are the dignity of a king."
#41: Sardinian · September 25, 2026 · "The world is round, and whoever can't navigate goes to the bottom."
#40: Slovenian · September 24, 2026 · "An opportunity once missed never comes back."
#39: Afar · September 23, 2026 · "As it is good for a son to resemble his father, it is good for one proverb to resemble another."
#38: Mongolian · September 22, 2026 · "One log won't make a fire; one person won't make a household."
#37: Hausa · September 21, 2026 · "Patience is the world's medicine."
#36: Portuguese · September 20, 2026 · "Whoever has a mouth can get to Rome."
#35: Marathi · September 19, 2026 · "Darkness right under the lamp."
#34: Thai · September 18, 2026 · "A frog under a coconut shell."
#33: Finnish · September 17, 2026 · "Diligence beats bad luck."
#32: Hawaiian · September 16, 2026 · "In speech there is life; in speech there is death."
#31: Tamil · September 15, 2026 · "The beauty of the inner self shows in the face."
#30: Greenlandic · September 14, 2026 · "The world. Literally, "the great sila.""
#29: Ojibwe · September 13, 2026 · "How many winters are you? The Ojibwe way of asking your age."
#28: Southern Sotho · September 12, 2026 · "A bird sees with its eyes; a person sees with their mind."
#27: Luxembourgish · September 11, 2026 · "Every little creature has its little pleasure."
#26: South Ndebele · September 10, 2026 · "Kingship is like a dew."
#25: Japanese · September 9, 2026 · "Even monkeys fall from trees."
#24: Kyrgyz · September 8, 2026 · "Knowledge is a person's wings."
#23: Yoruba · September 7, 2026 · "All lizards lie flat on their bellies. You can't tell which one has a stomach ache."
#22: Turkmen · September 6, 2026 · "Those who support each other will get over the mountain."
#21: Danish · September 5, 2026 · "Falling is no disgrace. Staying down is."
#20: Chinese (Mandarin) · September 4, 2026 · "Good medicine tastes bitter."
#19: Swahili · September 3, 2026 · "Every bird flies with its own wings."
#18: Hungarian · September 2, 2026 · "Better a sparrow today than a great bustard tomorrow."
#17: English · September 1, 2026 · "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
#16: Turkish · August 31, 2026 · "Even if the chimney is crooked, the smoke goes up straight."
#15: Icelandic · August 30, 2026 · "A bad rower blames the oar."
#14: Arabic · August 29, 2026 · "Unity is strength."
#13: Russian · August 28, 2026 · "Without effort you won't even pull a fish out of the pond."
#12: Czech · August 27, 2026 · "God gives to the one who rises early."
#11: Slovak · August 26, 2026 · "Without work there are no cakes."
#10: Punjabi · August 25, 2026 · "Blind dogs, hunters of deer."
#9: Nepali · August 24, 2026 · "A worm does not know the worth of a diamond."
#8: Rundi · August 23, 2026 · "Little by little, a worm will get to the water source."
#7: Kurdish (Kurmanji) · August 22, 2026 · "Every plant grows green on its own root."
#6: Croatian · August 21, 2026 · "An idle priest will even baptise the goat kids."
#5: Kazakh · August 20, 2026 · "Let the hands come out of one sleeve and the heads out of one collar."
#4: Italian · August 19, 2026 · "Whoever sleeps catches no fish."
#3: Norwegian · August 18, 2026 · "As you shout in the forest, so you get your answer."
#2: Persian · August 17, 2026 · "A blacksmith committed a crime in Balkh, and they beheaded a coppersmith in Shushtar."
#1: Malayalam · August 16, 2026 · "Even an elephant falls if it puts a foot wrong."

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