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1 trivia quiz  Travel the World of Indo-European Languages coolicon
Join me for a world tour of Indo-European languages! We'll be traveling over 6,000 years and 10,000 miles, so pack your suitcase and your linguistic intuition!
 Tough 15Q
3735 plays
 Nov 15 05
pu2-ke-qi-ri
2 trivia quiz  'Hastings' And The English Language icon
It's common knowledge that after 'The Battle of Hastings', the 'Norman Conquest' created a mixed language with Anglo-Saxon and French vocabulary overlapping each other. This quiz deals with some of the more remarkable effects.
 Average 10Q
6225 plays
 Mar 31 02
flem-ish
3 trivia quiz  This Quiz Made Possible by the Letter "R" coolicon
The friendly, familiar letter "R" is indeed a tricky little beastie. "R" you ready to find out more?
 Tough 10Q
705 plays
 Dec 08 07
pu2-ke-qi-ri
4 trivia quiz  Euphemistically Speaking coolicon
Whether you wish to assess your ability to replace an indelicate term with one that is inoffensive, or to brush up on the telling of the occasional polite lie, you may wish to avail yourself of the opportunity this humble quiz presents.
 Average 10Q
5538 plays
 Oct 04 04
uglybird editor
5 trivia quiz  Fun with Surnames coolicon
We all have one, but how much do we know about the surnames that we hear in our everyday life?
 Difficult 20Q
3030 plays
 Apr 12 05
azazella
6 trivia quiz  Into the origins of Western language alphabets coolicon
Alphabets are of the most useful inventions, contributing immensely to the development of our world. Still, more people know in which school Madonna studied than where and how their writing system developed. To change that, play THIS Quiz!
 Tough 10Q
816 plays
 Apr 25 07
zanazana
7 trivia quiz  Indo-European Languages coolicon
This is a general quiz on Indo-European language families. I hope you find it fun and informative!
 Average 10Q
1779 plays
 Oct 30 04
inquizitive
8 trivia quiz  What Did They Really Mean? coolicon
The word "malapropism" comes from Mrs. Malaprop, a character created by the playwright Richard Sheridan. She often used fancy words that were just plain wrong. I'll give you some famous malapropisms and you guess the correct term.
 Very Easy 10Q
8955 plays
 Jun 21 04
Catamount gold
9 trivia quiz  L-ing-guistics coolicon
How much do YOU know about the morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics of ?ing? usage? Yep. Me too. So you should do fine on this quiz!
 Tough 10Q
1383 plays
 Apr 07 05
uglybird editor
10 trivia quiz  Basic Linguistics icon
Owing to the fact that my other linguistics quiz is too hard (!), I have decided to write a simpler one. It concentrates less on the theoretical side of linguistics.
 Tough 10Q
3399 plays
 Oct 17 02
Matve
11 trivia quiz  Linguistic Anthropology icon
Linguistic Anthropology deals with communication, language acquisition, language origins, and the cultural connections to language use. Have fun...
 Tough 10Q
3006 plays
 Aug 19 02
Leki
12 trivia quiz  Homeric Questions icon
Homer's Greek is linguistically interesting-- a fact not known to most casual readers of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" in translation. Take this quiz to find out more about the language and poetry of Homer! No knowledge of Greek required.
Tough 10Q
747 plays
 Jun 12 04
pu2-ke-qi-ri
13 trivia quiz  It All Sounds Greek To Me icon
Undoubtedly, it is very difficult to master the Greek language. However, most of us speak Greek every day even though we do not always understand it! This is a quiz dealing with the influence of the Greek language on the English vocabulary. Have fun! :)
 Average 10Q
3240 plays
 Dec 18 03
Warzycha
14 trivia quiz  Augmentative and Alternative Communication icon
This quiz concerns a range of communication strategies used by people with disabilities to convey or understand a message.
 Average 10Q
342 plays
 Jan 31 08
littlesuzie
15 trivia quiz  Languages of Asia and the Americas icon
This might be a bit tough for those not in the language business, but give it a go anyway.
 Difficult 10Q
627 plays
 Nov 17 05
twinflame
16 trivia quiz  Linguistics 2 icon
This is just some more information that you can pick up in a basic Linguistics course.
 Average 10Q
3507 plays
 Mar 08 02
ladymacb29 editor
17 trivia quiz  Unconventional Grammar icon
Have you ever wondered what an essentially semantic grammar might look like? This quiz may shed light on this. Please note that in this kind of grammar the "Object" is inanimate, while the "Experiencer" is animate.
 Average 10Q
1311 plays
 Nov 14 04
bloomsby editor
18 trivia quiz  Mangled Metaphors, Malapropisms, and More! icon
This quiz is made up of some of the more oft-quoted remarks of famous people. Can you identify the people these mangled statements are attributed to?
 Very Difficult 10Q
2415 plays
 Nov 28 02
scarlettmw
19 trivia quiz  Basic Linguistic Terms icon
Linguistic terminology won't - in itself - help you to improve your linguistic levels. Yet it may help you to have an insight in how a language functions. Terms are illustrated with examples from English, French, Spanish and German.
 Very Difficult 10Q
2790 plays
 Mar 04 02
flem-ish
20 trivia quiz  Linguistics
I present to you some rather challenging queries on the world of linguistics...good luck!
 Tough 10Q
1725 plays
 Jun 08 01
thejazzkickazz gold
21 trivia quiz  Language - Viewed by a Linguist icon
Like an earlier quiz of mine, this offers a view of language and of grammar that may strike many as unconventional. If you are unfamiliar with linguistics please treat it as a learning experience.
 Tough 10Q
708 plays
 May 09 05
bloomsby editor
22 trivia quiz  Linguistics 101
This is just some more information that you can pick up in a basic Linguistics course.
 Average 10Q
3147 plays
 Mar 08 02
ladymacb29 editor
23 trivia quiz  Matve's Linguistics Challenge icon
Welcome to my Linguistics Challenge. Anyone who is doing a Linguistics degree should not complain about the difficulty of the questions; anyone else is welcome to be totally baffled.
 Impossible 10Q
1299 plays
 May 18 02
Matve

Some sample questions from this category:

* Who was considered the 'Father of Linguistic', a Swiss guy, who authored the seminal book entitled 'Course in General Linguistics'?
* What is the name of the linguistic school, which attempted to uncover 'Discovery {Procedures';} that are internally imbedded, and compose the underlying units of language?
* Since language is arbitrary, but contain 'Permitted Moves'...what term best describes the system of this communicational system?
* What three components, generally, make up a system of a typical language?
* What is the smallest segment of sound, that comprises the basic building blocks of a language?
* What is the term for unchanging, gliding {vowels;} which can be either consonant-based or vowel-based?
* The morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How many morphemes would the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' have?
* Which of the following is not a breed of Morpheme, found in most languages?
* What are the 2 main structures, found when deconstructing a sentence into a tree-diagram?
* What is the correct term for the omission of a final syllable, sound or letter in a word as e.g. in a cup o' tea where f is dropped?
* Initialisms are spoken as individual letters. USA and BBC are initialisms. Nato, Unesco are not because you pronounce these 'letterwords' as single words. Which of these terms is a correct synonym for an initialism?
* In Spanish and French an e is often added to words that in Latin began in sch. Escuela, escole (later: ecole) for schola. What's the technical term for such an addition at the beginning of words?
* The German word for potatoes was originally Tartuffeln related to tartufoli 'truffles'. The initial T became a K: Kartoffeln. Of what language change phenomenon is that an example?
* Which of these types of linguistics applies linguistic theories and methods to the analysis of disorders of spoken, written or signed language?
* Which of these terms refers to a type of fabricated and non-meaningful speech and is often when associated with a trance state as in the so-called 'speaking in tongues'?
* Which of the following is NOT part of grammar?
* Which of the following is NOT needed for something to be called a language?
* Which of the following is not a dialect of English?
* What is the dominant accent in the United States?
* Which of the following is not part of a grammar (in a linguistic sense) of a language?

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