World Languages

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. From what language is the word 'oasis' said to have originated? Ancient Egyptian Turkish Arabic 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? Tamil Hindi Gujarati Urdu

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? Kanji Katakana Hiragana Ganji

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

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

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 Waš Gřusz Haček

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? Matthew Peter Maria Joel

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