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  • Where is Aleut spoken? Alaska, Siberia, Norway, Greenland
    In parts of Alaska and Siberia
  • Who was the founder of Esperanto? Ferdinand de Saussure, J. R. R. Tolkien, Noam Chomsky, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof
    Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof
  • In which country is the language Cymraeg spoken?
    Wales
  • 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 is the Albanian language called in Albanian? Albanski, Albani, Shqip
    Shqip
  • How many living languages do you estimate there are in the world?
    About 6,000
  • Where do sign languages come from?
    The Abbé de l'Epée
  • From which language does the flower name 'tulip' come from?
    Turkey
  • Which of the following languages are written from right to left? Hebrew, Maltese, Japanese, Arabic
    Hebrew and Arabic.
  • What proportion of all languages in the world are African languages?
    About one-third of all languages in the world are African languages
  • In some schools, deaf children learn how to write their sign language using a letter invented by a ballerina. - true or false?
    True
  • In which of the following countries is German an official language? Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg
    All of them
  • 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
  • Which of the following languages spoken in Europe today is considered to be the oldest? Galician, Basque, Icelandic, Greek
    Basque
  • How many indigenous languages are there estimated to be in Europe?
    Between 200 and 300
  • Which is the most widely spoken language in the world?
    English
  • The official language of Azerbaijan is called? Azerbaijanian, Azerbaigianic, Azerban, Azeri
    Azeri
  • Deaf people in America and Great Britain use the same sign language. - true or false?
    False
  • Which are the two varieties of standard modern Norwegian? Nynorsk, Norse, Faroese, Bokmål
    Nynorsk and Bokmål
  • True or false: Learning and becoming fluent in a sign language requires a similar amount of time as for any foreign language
    True
  • 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.
  • What does the word Eskimo mean? 'snow', 'stranger', 'friend'
    'Stranger'