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