True or false: Learning and becoming fluent in a sign language requires a similar amount of time as for any foreign language
True
Which is the most widely spoken language in the world?
English
Who was the founder of Esperanto? Ferdinand de Saussure, J. R. R. Tolkien, Noam Chomsky, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof
Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof
Which are the two varieties of standard modern Norwegian? Nynorsk, Norse, Faroese, Bokmål
Nynorsk and Bokmål
How many indigenous languages are there estimated to be in Europe?
Between 200 and 300
What is the Albanian language called in Albanian? Albanski, Albani, Shqip
Shqip
What does the word Eskimo mean? 'snow', 'stranger', 'friend'
'Stranger'
The official language of Azerbaijan is called? Azerbaijanian, Azerbaigianic, Azerban, Azeri
Azeri
In which country is the language Cymraeg spoken?
Wales
In which of the following countries is German an official language? Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg
All of them
How many living languages do you estimate there are in the world?
About 6,000
In some schools, deaf children learn how to write their sign language using a letter invented by a ballerina. - true or false?
True
Which of the following languages are written from right to left? Hebrew, Maltese, Japanese, Arabic
Hebrew and Arabic.
Deaf people in America and Great Britain use the same sign language. - true or false?
False
Two deaf people, who do not have a common language, communicate more easily than people who do not have hearing problems, in the same situation - true or false?
True
What proportion of all languages in the world are African languages?
About one-third of all languages in the world are African languages
Where is Aleut spoken? Alaska, Siberia, Norway, Greenland
In parts of Alaska and Siberia
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.
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
Which of the following languages spoken in Europe today is considered to be the oldest? Galician, Basque, Icelandic, Greek
Basque
From which language does the flower name 'tulip' come from?
Turkey