Writing
In ancient times, some civilizations used this hard surface to write on.
What is stone?
It's what some uses when they speak.
What is their voice?
It's using your voice to make music.
What is singing?
To communicate with deaf people, you must know this.
What is sign language?
This language family includes Czech, Polish, Slovakian and Russian.
What is Slavik?
In modern times, many people communicate via Short Message Service.
What is text message?
To make themselves heard in a large room, many people use this electric device.
What is a microphone?
Classical composers write pieces of music, pop composers write these.
What are songs?
It's a type of secret language that people who don't want their messages understood by everybody can use for encryption.
What is a secret code?
These languages on go back to ancient Italy, but they have nothing to do with love.
What are Romance languages?
It's rarely used today, but to communicate through this medium you need an envelope and a stamp, as well as paper and pen.
What is a letter?
Many politicians love to stand in front of people and do this, making all kinds of promises that rarely come true.
What is make a speech?
They're the words to the music.
What are the lyrics?
Native Americans used fire and a blanket to send these kind of messages.
What are smoke signals?
English and German fall into this family.
What is Germanic?
It was an early form of paper developed by the Egyptians.
What is papyrus?
What is voicemail?
It's classical music that tells a story, for example Don Giovanni or the Bartered Bride.
What is an opera?
Before voice communication, this electronic code of dots and dashes was used to send messages.
What is Morse code?
These two Asian languages are not related, one is in the Sino-Tibetan family, while the other is in its own family.
What are Chinese (Sino-Tibetan) and Japanese (Japonic)?
In ancient civilizations where stone was not common, this softer alternative was used.
What is clay?
Many people fear this more than death.
What is public speaking?
It's a song with no words, only instruments.
What is an instrumental?
It was the name of the decoding machine that the Nazis used to send messages. After it was captured, the allies were able to read many messages the Germans were sending to their army units.
What is the Enigma Machine?
Despite it being surrounded by Slavic and Germanic countries, this former member of the Austro Hungarian Empire's language is in the Uralic family, which includes Finnish and Estonian.
What is Hungary?