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Languages with 8 letters
Stuck on a crossword or a word game? 18 languages have exactly 8 letters, from “Akkadian” to “Tigrinya”.
All 18 eight-letter languages
- Akkadian
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Cherokee
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Dothraki
- Estonian
- Friulian
- Georgian
- Gujarati
- Hawaiian
- Japanese
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Sanskrit
- Sumerian
- Tigrinya
About this list
- 18 of the 128 languages have exactly 8 letters (14%).
- Most start with A (3), C (3) and G (2).
- Only names of one word are counted, and only their letters: spaces, hyphens and apostrophes are not.
Quick answers
- What are some eight-letter languages?
- 18 of the 128 languages in Icillion have exactly 8 letters, for example Japanese, Romanian and Croatian.
- Which eight-letter languages start with A?
- A is the most common first letter here, with 3 names, such as Akkadian, Albanian and Armenian.
Languages by first letter
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