How many indigenous languages are there estimated to be in Europe?
Between 200 and 300
How many living languages do you estimate there are in the world?
About 6,000
Which is the most widely spoken language in the world?
English
What proportion of all languages in the world are African languages?
About one-third of all languages in the world are African languages
Which of the following languages are written from right to left? Hebrew, Maltese, Japanese, Arabic
Hebrew and Arabic.
Which of the following languages spoken in Europe today is considered to be the oldest? Galician, Basque, Icelandic, Greek
Basque
In which of the following countries is German an official language? Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg
All of them
Which are the two varieties of standard modern Norwegian? Nynorsk, Norse, Faroese, Bokmål
Nynorsk and Bokmål
The official language of Azerbaijan is called? Azerbaijanian, Azerbaigianic, Azerban, Azeri
Azeri
Where is Aleut spoken? Alaska, Siberia, Norway, Greenland
In parts of Alaska and Siberia
In which country is the language Cymraeg spoken?
Wales
What is the Albanian language called in Albanian? Albanski, Albani, Shqip
Shqip
Who was the founder of Esperanto? Ferdinand de Saussure, J. R. R. Tolkien, Noam Chomsky, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof
Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof
Which book is considered to be the world's oldest? The Koran, Adam Bede's Historia, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Chanson de Roland
The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the first ever written book, soon after 2000 BC
Where do sign languages come from?
The Abbé de l'Epée
Sign language is universal. True or false?
False. Estimations say there may be as many signed languages as there are spoken languages in the world.
