World Languages
What language do people in Belgium speak?
Dutch, French, and German — not “Belgian”
English belongs to which language family?
Indo-European — not German-only or Latin-only
What alphabet does English use?
Latin alphabet — not “English alphabet”
Is Latin a living language today?
No — it is a dead language
What do we call a person who speaks two languages?
Bilingual — not “double-lingual”
What language do people in Brazil speak?
Portuguese — not Spanish
Turkish is part of which language family?
Turkic — not Arabic
What writing system does Chinese use?
Characters — not an alphabet
Ancient Egyptians wrote using what system?
Hieroglyphs — not Arabic
What do we call a language created on purpose (like Esperanto)?
Constructed language — not “fake language”
What language do people in Austria speak?
German — not Austrian
Spanish and Italian belong to which family?
Romance languages — not Roman or “Romantic”
What writing system does Japanese use besides kanji?
Hiragana and Katakana — not “Japanese letters”
Sanskrit was used in ancient texts of which region?
India — not Europe
What is the first language a person learns called?
Mother tongue — not main language
What language do people in Switzerland speak?
German, French, Italian, Romansh — not Swiss
Finnish and Hungarian belong to which family?
Uralic — not Slavic
What alphabet does Russian use?
Cyrillic — not Latin
Cuneiform was used by which ancient people?
Sumerians — not Egyptians
People who know many languages are called what?
Polyglots — not multilinguists
What language do people in Iran speak?
Persian (Farsi) — not Arabic
Arabic belongs to which language family?
Semitic (Afro-Asiatic) — not Indo-European
Are hieroglyphs an alphabet?
No — they are symbols representing ideas/sounds
Old English is the ancestor of which modern language?
Modern English — not German
The language with the most native speakers today is…?
Chinese (Mandarin) — not English