A World of Languages

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Alpha, Beta, Gamma. Of which alphabet are those the first 3 letters? Hebrew Greek Persian Arabic

2. Aleph, Beth, Gimel. - Of what language are they the three first letters of the alphabet? Greek Persian Arabic Hebrew

3. Alif, Ba, Ta. - And what language has those as its first in the alphabet? Arabic Hebrew Greek Persian

4. What language group is usually divided in Goidelic and Brythonic? Indo-Aryan Anatolian East-Slavic Celtic

5. What's the name of the Celtic language that was spoken on the Isle of Man? Manx Mannish Mancunian Cumbrian

6. In what country do they speak Farsi? Finland Iran Far Oer Kuwait

7. Which of these languages or subtypes of languages is Pennsylvania Dutch closest to? Dutch German Flemish Plattdeutsch

8. In normal every day written Hebrew ( magazines, books, signs, newspapers - primers for learning the language excepted )there are 22 consonants and _________ vowels? 3 0 4 6

9. Cookie; freebooter; a nitwit; a sloop; how come? and sleigh. What European language were all or most of these English words borrowed from? German Danish Dutch Russian

10. Which of these spirits is 'linguistically speaking', the outsider? eau-de-vie vodka whisky tequila