World Languages

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Which of the following languages does not go under the SEMITIC category? Hebrew Amharic Arabic Ancient Egyptian

2. Which language puts the definite article ('the') at the end of the noun? French Latin Chinese Swedish

3. Which of the following languages spoken in Europe is NOT part of the Indo-European language family? Asturian Albanian Galician Finnish

4. To which of the following language groups does English belong? Romance Germanic Celtic None of the above

5. Which language is not spoken in South Africa? Afrikaans Swahili Xhosa Zulu

6. What is the name for the popular form of Ancient Greek which Modern Greek is said to have come from? Doric Koiné Lexos Polemos

7. What does 'hysteria' mean in Greek? the womb the liver the face the tooth

8. Which is not an official language of Switzerland? German Romansch English French

9. What is the Korean alphabet called? Kimchi Korean Hangul Ran-go

10. Which Latin case is said to be "instrumentative"? Ablative Accusative Locative Dative

11. In what language do people of Russian Orthodox faith pray? Russian Aramaic Greek Old Church Slavonic

12. From what language is the word 'oasis' said to have originated? Arabic Ancient Egyptian Turkish Berber

13. Which of the following is not a Slavic language? Czech Russian Polish Lithuanian

14. Which language is believed by some to be the most similar to English? German Dutch Gaelic Frisian

15. From what language does the word 'taboo' come? Chinese Zulu Tongan Hindi

16. Which of the following Indian languages doesn't belong to the Indo-European family? Urdu Gujarati Tamil Hindi

17. Which of the following is NOT a Romance language? Corsican Asturian Basque Galician

18. What is the name for the name of the Japanese logographic script based on Chinese characters? Hiragana Kanji Katakana Ganji

19. How do you say China in Mandarin? Zhong Guo Sino Sina Nippon

20. From what language does the word 'ketchup' come from? Chinese Turkish Arabic Samoan

21. What is the name for the accent used in Czech and other Slavic languages that looks like an upside down circumflex accent (Like a small v)? Šmelt Haček Gřusz Waš

22. What mood is the phrase 'If I were you' in? Subjunctive Indicative Passive Periphrastic Conditional

23. Which of the following is not written in Latin (Roman) script? English Russian French Bahasa-Indonesia

24. Which name is not of Hebrew origin? Joel Matthew Peter Maria

25. From what language does the word 'bagel' come? Yiddish French German Danish