Indo-Eurpoean
Eastern Asian
Ancient Languages
Linguistics
Other
100

What is the group that comprises languages like French, Spanish, and Italian?

The Romance Languages
100

What language is the following:
나는 언어학을 좋아합니다!

Korean

100

What language was recently revived in the Middle East?

Hebrew

100

What is the smallest segment of sound that comprises the basic building block of a language?

Phoneme

100

What is the festival of colors in Hindi?

Holi

200

What Old English word was originally used as a euphemism to avoid saying the name of this animal?

Bear (originally meaning 'brown one')

200

What writing system is this?

アニメ

Bonus: What language?

Katakana

Japanese

200

What is the oldest written language?

Sumerian

200

What is the most common vowel in English?

ə (schwa)

200

What medium were Mayan glyphs carved into?

Stone

300

What language did scholars realize had systematic similarities to Latin and Greek, leading to an increased interest in linguistics?

Sanskrit

300

How many tones does Cantonese have?

6

300

Which writing system was first found on temple walls, leading scholars to incorrectly infer that it was only used for religious purposes?

Hieroglyphs

300

What branch of linguistics deals with words' meanings in context?

Pragmatics

300

DAILY DOUBLE

Odia belongs to which language family?

Indo-European (in the Indo-Aryan subfamily)

400

Who proposed the Germanic consonant shift?

Jacob Grimm (of the Grimm Brothers)

400

How old is the Thai script?

741 years old

400

What language had the first abjad?

Phoenician

400
Who is the father of modern linguistics?

Noam Chomsky

400

What language is spoken on Easter Island?

Rapa Nui

500

What is the oldest attested Indo-European language?

Hittite

500

What material was Chinese first written on?

Oracle Bones

500

What form do nouns take in Semitic languages when the following noun modifies it?

The construct form

500

What type of sound change is this:

[anta] > [atta]

Assimilation

500

How many noun cases does Finnish have?

15 (too many)

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