FREELANG Magazine - Quiz 3: General knowledge about languages

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Where is the Kannada language spoken?
1. in Canada (Native American language)
2. in India
3. in Senegal
4. nowhere, it doesn't exist
How many languages are spoken in Africa?
1. about 200 languages
2. about 700 languages
3. more than 2000 languages
In which language is the text below written?
1. Hebrew
2. Khmer
3. Greek
4. Bulgarian
Finnish and Swedish belong to the same language family.
1. true
2. false
Which language is the national language of this "Something-stan" country coloured in red on the map below?
1. Kazakh
2. Kyrgyz
3. Tajik
4. Turkmen
How do you say "Thank you" in Japanese?
1. konnichiwa
2. arigatô
3. kiitos
4. kop khun krap
Which language is spoken in Austria?
1. Austrian
2. German
3. Tyrolian
Akkadian is a language derived from French and spoken mainly in the Canadian Maritime provinces.
1. true
2. false
In how many countries is English an official (or co-official) language?
1. 53
2. 29
3. 12
Which of these languages really exists:
1. volleyo
2. cricketto
3. basketto
4. tenniso
After Spanish and Portuguese, which language is the most spoken in South America?
1. Quechua
2. Guarani
3. Aymara
4. Nahuatl
A simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups who do not share a common language, in situations such as trade, is called:
1. a Pidgin language
2. a Creole language
Georgian language is written using:
1. the Roman (Latin) alphabet
2. the Cyrillic alphabet
3. the Georgian alphabet
How many people in the world speak Spanish as their first language?
1. 200 million
2. 400 million
3. 600 million
Whats does "Prosit!" mean in German?
1. Hi!
2. OK!
3. Thanks!
4. Cheers!
Cheyenne, Apache and Sioux are languages that are still spoken today in North America.
1. true
2. false
How many tones are there in Cantonese?
1. 2 tones
2. 4 tones
3. 6 tones
"A country without a language is a country without a soul" (Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam) is a saying from:
1. Ireland
2. Czech Republic
3. China
Which of these authors, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, was fluent in many languages and published novels and plays in both French and English:
1. William Faulkner
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Rudyard Kipling
"Albus" in Latin, "bel" in Slovene, "geal" in Irish, "djermak" in Armenian and "fehér" in Hungarian... What is this colour?
1. red
2. blue
3. white
4. grey

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