Table 3.

Number of listeners and average accuracy (descriptive averages, chance = 16.7%) for each language in the sample for the online experiment in alphabetical order by language family and genus.

Family	Genus	Name	N of listeners	Accuracy (%)
Altaic	Turkic	Turkish	38	58
Indo-European	Albanian	Albanian	7	54
	Armenian	Armenian	16	63
	Germanic	English	82	74
		German	77	72
		Swedish	18	72
		Danish	18	71
	Hellenic	Greek	36	64
	Indo-Iranian	Farsi	20	57
	Romance	French	51	65
		Romanian	25	65
		Spanish	34	64
		Portuguese	55	63
		Italian	52	63
	Slavic	Russian	32	65
		Polish	48	63
Japanese	Japanese	Japanese	46	61
Kartvelian	Kartvelian	Georgian	11	63
Korean	Korean	Korean	20	66
Niger-Congo	Bantoid	Zulu	18	55
Sino-Tibetan	Chinese	Mandarin	32	55
Tai-Kadai	Kam-Tai	Thai	15	52
Uralic	Finnic	Estonian	43	68
		Finnish	16	68
	Ugric	Hungarian	32	65

Within a genus, the languages are sorted by the accuracy (see Fig. 2 for complementary posterior estimates and 95% credible intervals from the main analysis).