Languages of the World

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. To which Indo-European language group does Portuguese belong? Baltic Germanic Romance Slavic

2. Afrikaans is spoken by six million South Africans. To which other language is it closely related? Dutch Xhosa English Zulu

3. How many letters are there in the Hebrew alphabet? 24 28 26 22

4. In which country is English not an official language? Kenya Trinidad and Tobago Senegal Nigeria

5. Which one is a Slavic language? Bulgarian Estonian Hungarian Rumanian

6. Which of these languages isn't Indo-European? Basque Punjabi Armenian Albanian

7. To which language family do Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam belong? Indo-European Austronesian Austro-Asiatic Dravidian

8. In what country can you find native speakers of Kikuyu (or Gikuyu) and Maasai? South Africa Papua New Guinea Nigeria Kenya

9. Which one of these languages has the largest number of native speakers? Korean Bengali Italian Turkish

10. Which language has no native speakers in Africa? Yoruba Warlpiri Akan Amharic

11. Hanyu Pinyin is the most common system to transcribe Chinese in the Latin alphabet. What does the letter q approximately sound like in this romanization system? Like "g" in "girl" Like "c" in "cat" Like "ch" in "chain" Like "sh" in "short"

12. Which language is related to Hawaiian? Quechua Japanese Maori Navajo

13. What was the language of the Aztecs? Nahuatl Yukatek Quechua Inuktitut

14. What is the official language of Mongolia? Chinese Evenki Khalkha Tatar

15. In what country can you find most native speakers of Khmer? Cambodia Thailand Vietnam Laos