FREELANG Magazine - Quiz 5: Languages of Asia

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1. What Asian country has the largest number of languages on its territory?
   
   1.   ?    China
   2.   ?    India
   3.   ?    Indonesia
2. What are the two official languages of Sri Lanka?
   
   1.   ?    Hindi and English
   2.   ?    Sinhala and Tamil
   3.   ?    Urdu and Malayalam
3. What is this language?
   
   1.   ?    Burmese
   2.   ?    Mongolian
   3.   ?    Nepalese
   
4. What does "pinyin" refer to?
   
   1.   ?    The Tok Pisin language of Papua New Guinea
   2.   ?    A Portuguese creole spoken in Hong Kong
   3.   ?    A system of romanization of Chinese
5. How many tones are there in Korean?
   
   1.   ?    0
   2.   ?    4
   3.   ?    6
6. What language is the closest to Lao?
   
   1.   ?    Khmer
   2.   ?    Malay
   3.   ?    Thai
7. Thai and Vietnamese belong to the same language family.
   1.   ?    Right
   2.   ?    Wrong
8. Where is Telugu spoken?
   1.   ?    In China
   2.   ?    In India
   3.   ?    In Philippines
9. Where was this picture taken?
   1.   ?    Cambodia
   2.   ?    Laos
   3.   ?    Vietnam
   
10. Which writing system is used in Japanese to transcribe foreign words?
    1.   ?    Kanji
    2.   ?    Hiragana
    3.   ?    Katakana
11. The Amis are an indigenous group of about 150 000 people. They speak Amis, an Austronesian language. Where do they live?
    1.   ?    In Borneo
    2.   ?    In Maldives
    3.   ?    In Taïwan
12. How do you say "Thank you" in Chinese?
    1.   ?    Arigatô
    2.   ?    Nihao
    3.   ?    Xiè xie
13. Which of these languages are Turkic languages:
    1.   ?    Georgian and Chechen
    2.   ?    Uzbek and Kazakh
    3.   ?    Tajik and Kurdish
14. Which of these languages has the largest number of speakers?
    1.   ?    Korean
    2.   ?    Japanese
    3.   ?    Mongolian
15. What is the specificity of Devanagari, an alphasyllabary used to write Hindi and other Indian languages?
    1.   ?    Most characters are square-shaped
    2.   ?    Characters are written vertically, on either side of a median line
    3.   ?    Characters are surmounted by an horizontal line that runs almost continuously
16. In 2012, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to:
    1.   ?    Chinese writer Gao Xingjian
    2.   ?    Chinese writer Mo Yan
    3.   ?    Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe
    
17. What national dialect is Filipino, the official language of the Philippines, based upon?
    1.   ?    Cebuano
    2.   ?    Ilokano
    3.   ?    Tagalog
18. This is a map of the language families in Asia. What is the family represented in green?
    1.   ?    Caucasian languages
    2.   ?    Slavic languages
    3.   ?    Turkic languages
    
19. Of what country is Dzongkha the official language?
    1.   ?    Bhutan
    2.   ?    Brunei
    3.   ?    Oman
20. "Shampoo" is a lowanword from:
    1.   ?    Hindi
    2.   ?    Indonesian
    3.   ?    Maldivian