FREELANG Magazine - Quiz 4: Languages of Africa

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1. How may languages, approximately, can be found in Africa?
   1.   ?    About 50.
   2.   ?    Between 500 and 700.
   3.   ?    More than 2000.
2. The Afro-Asiatic language family, which includes Arabic and Berber, is mostly represented in North Africa. What is the other name of this family?
   1.   ?    Nilo-Saharan family.
   2.   ?    Chamito-Semitic family.
   3.   ?    Niger-Congo family.
   
3. What is the main national language of Mali?
   1.   ?    Bambara.
   2.   ?    Yoruba.
   3.   ?    Wolof.
4. What is the phonologic specificity of Khoisan languages, spoken in South-West Africa?
   1.   ?    They use whistling sounds as phonemes (a phoneme being "the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances").
   2.   ?    They use click consonants as phonemes (by clicking their tongue).
   3.   ?    They use hiccups (a bit like when Michael Jackson sings!) as phonemes.
5. Main Portuguese-speaking African countries are:
   1.   ?    Angola and Mozambique.
   2.   ?    Nigeria and Liberia.
   3.   ?    Cameroun and Niger.
6. Where is Lingala spoken, mainly?
   1.   ?    In Namibia, South Africa and Botswana.
   2.   ?    In Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic.
   3.   ?    In Mauritania and Mali.
7. What is Afrikaans?
   1.   ?    A kind of urban slang used by young Senegalese people.
   2.   ?    An artificiel language aiming at easing communication, like Esperanto in Europe.
   3.   ?    A language derived from Dutch, spoken by Dutch settlers in South Africa.
8. What is the official language of Benin?
   1.   ?    French.
   2.   ?    English.
   3.   ?    Fongbé.
9. What African language (this doesn't include French or English) has the most learners as a second language?
   1.   ?    Arabic.
   2.   ?    Berber.
   3.   ?    Swahili.
   
10. In what country are Amharic, Oromo and Somali spoken?
    1.   ?    Egypt.
    2.   ?    Eritrea.
    3.   ?    Ethiopia.
11. What is the common feature of Swahili, Hausa, Lingala or Bambara?
    1.   ?    They are Bantu languages, from the Niger-Congo family.
    2.   ?    They are "lingua franca", used by people not sharing a mother tongue to communicate and trade.
    3.   ?    They are languages spoken in Nigeria.
12. In how many African countries is French an official or co-official language?
    1.   ?    5
    2.   ?    12
    3.   ?    22
13. What is called the form of Arabic spoken in Morocco?
    1.   ?    Darija.
    2.   ?    Fulani.
    3.   ?    Tamazight.
14. Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda, is spoken by:
    1.   ?    98% of the population.
    2.   ?    56% of the population.
    3.   ?    5% of the population.
15. Surinamese creole, also called Sranan Tongo, is an African language.
    1.   ?    True.
    2.   ?    False.
16. Who sang a worldwide hit in Mandinka language back in the 80's?
    1.   ?    Johnny Clegg, "Asimbonanga".
    2.   ?    Mory Kante, "Yeke yeke".
    3.   ?    Youssou N'Dour, "7 seconds".
    
17. In what African country is spoken a language from the Western Malayo-Polynesian language family, which also includes Indonesian, Javanese or Malay?
    1.   ?    Comoros Islands (Comorian Mahore).
    2.   ?    Guinea (Maninka - or Malinke language).
    3.   ?    Madagascar (Malagasy).
18. There is an African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), aiming at developping and promoting the use of African languages in Africa.
    1.   ?    True.
    2.   ?    False.
19. What is this alphabet?
    1.   ?    The Ge'ez script (for Ethiopian Semitic languages).
    2.   ?    The Mandaic alphabet (for Mandaic language).
    3.   ?    The Tifinagh alphabet (for Berber languages).
    
20. How do you say "I love you" in Swahili ?
    1.   ?    Men seni sevaman.
    2.   ?    Nakupenda.
    3.   ?    Hakuna matata.