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What Asian country has the largest number of languages on its territory?
- China
- India
- Indonesia
What are the two official languages of Sri Lanka?
- Hindi and English
- Sinhala and Tamil
- Urdu and Malayalam
What is this language?
- Burmese
- Mongolian
- Nepalese

What does "pinyin" refer to?
- The Tok Pisin language of Papua New Guinea
- A Portuguese creole spoken in Hong Kong
- A system of romanization of Chinese
How many tones are there in Korean?
- 0
- 4
- 6
What language is the closest to Lao?
- Khmer
- Malay
- Thai
Thai and Vietnamese belong to the same language family.
- Right
- Wrong
Where is Telugu spoken?
- In China
- In India
- In Philippines
Where was this picture taken?
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Vietnam

Which writing system is used in Japanese to transcribe foreign words?
- Kanji
- Hiragana
- Katakana
The Amis are an indigenous group of about 150 000 people. They speak Amis, an Austronesian language. Where do they live?
- In Borneo
- In Maldives
- In Taïwan
How do you say "Thank you" in Chinese?
- Arigatô
- Nihao
- Xiè xie
Which of these languages are Turkic languages:
- Georgian and Chechen
- Uzbek and Kazakh
- Tajik and Kurdish
Which of these languages has the largest number of speakers?
- Korean
- Japanese
- Mongolian
What is the specificity of Devanagari, an alphasyllabary used to write Hindi and other Indian languages?
- Most characters are square-shaped
- Characters are written vertically, on either side of a median line
- Characters are surmounted by an horizontal line that runs almost continuously
In 2012, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to:
- Chinese writer Gao Xingjian
- Chinese writer Mo Yan
- Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe

What national dialect is Filipino, the official language of the Philippines, based upon?
- Cebuano
- Ilokano
- Tagalog
This is a map of the language families in Asia. What is the family represented in green?
- Caucasian languages
- Slavic languages
- Turkic languages

Of what country is Dzongkha the official language?
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Oman
"Shampoo" is a lowanword from:
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Maldivian

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