Language Wheel
Spin to get one language out of 63. The list runs from Amharic to Zulu.
No spins yet. Each pick is listed here in order.
Languages on the wheel
Languages
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Basque
- Bengali
- Burmese
- Cherokee
- Czech
- Dutch
- English
- Fijian
- Finnish
- French
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Guarani
- Haitian Creole
- Hausa
- Hawaiian
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Igbo
- Indonesian
- Inuktitut
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kazakh
- Khmer
- Korean
- Malagasy
- Mandarin Chinese
- Maori
- Mongolian
- Navajo
- Nepali
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Russian
- Samoan
- Serbian
- Sinhala
- Somali
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zulu
About the language wheel
The wheel holds one list of 63 living languages in alphabetical order, from Amharic to Zulu. Each is written in its common English form: Spanish, Swahili, Korean, Welsh. It is a single list with no “Choose a list” buttons, so each spin can land on any of them.
These 63 language names were written for this site, not taken from a book, an app, a game or another website. The page prints all of them under the wheel, so a teacher or a parent can read the list before a lesson. The wheel gives you a name and nothing else: what the language sounds like is yours to find out.
To set up a ten-words challenge for a class or a family, switch on “Remove the winner after each spin” and give everyone one spin. Each person gets a different language and looks up ten words in it. Spin in a set order and the Results tab shows who drew which language.
What to do with a random language
- Learn to say hello, thank you and goodbye in the language you land on.
- Start a geography or culture project by giving each group one language to research.
- Play a guessing game: spin in secret, give clues about the language and let the others name it.
- Find a song or a children’s story in the language the wheel picks and listen to it.
How to use the wheel
- Type or paste your options, one per line. The wheel redraws as you type.
- Press Spin, click the wheel, or press Ctrl+Enter while you are in the list.
- Read the pick. Remove it from the wheel if nobody should be picked twice, then spin again.
How the pick is made
Before the wheel moves, your browser draws one slice at random with crypto.getRandomValues, the same generator browsers use for security keys. Every slice has the same chance. The spin you watch only plays that result out.
Nothing about the animation changes the outcome: not how hard you click, not how long the wheel turns, not the size of your screen. The pointer always stops inside a slice, never on a line.
Your list stays in your browser. A link you copy carries the list inside the link itself, so nothing is uploaded.
Questions about the language wheel
- Are all of these living languages?
- Yes. Every language on the wheel is in use today. The list has no extinct languages, no constructed languages and no sign languages.
- Why is my language not on the wheel?
- The wheel holds 63 languages, which is a small part of all the languages in the world. Add yours by typing it on a new line in the list.
- Can the language spinner choose a language for me to learn?
- Yes, as a starting point. The pick is random and every language has the same 1 in 63 chance, so the wheel cannot tell which one would suit you.
- Can I use only the languages my school teaches?
- Yes. Press “Clear list” and type those languages, one per line. The wheel then picks among them with the same chance for each.
- Does the wheel translate anything?
- No. It picks the name of a language and nothing more. It does not translate and it does not look anything up online.