Indo-Eurpoean
What is the group that comprises languages like French, Spanish, and Italian?
What language is the following:
나는 언어학을 좋아합니다!
Korean
What language was recently revived in the Middle East?
Hebrew
What is the smallest segment of sound that comprises the basic building block of a language?
Phoneme
What is the festival of colors in Hindi?
Holi
What Old English word was originally used as a euphemism to avoid saying the name of this animal?
Bear (originally meaning 'brown one')
What writing system is this?
アニメ
Bonus: What language?
Katakana
Japanese
What is the oldest written language?
Sumerian
What is the most common vowel in English?
ə (schwa)
What medium were Mayan glyphs carved into?
Stone
What language did scholars realize had systematic similarities to Latin and Greek, leading to an increased interest in linguistics?
Sanskrit
How many tones does Cantonese have?
6
Which writing system was first found on temple walls, leading scholars to incorrectly infer that it was only used for religious purposes?
Hieroglyphs
What branch of linguistics deals with words' meanings in context?
Pragmatics
DAILY DOUBLE
Odia belongs to which language family?
Indo-European (in the Indo-Aryan subfamily)
Who proposed the Germanic consonant shift?
Jacob Grimm (of the Grimm Brothers)
How old is the Thai script?
741 years old
What language had the first abjad?
Phoenician
Noam Chomsky
What language is spoken on Easter Island?
Rapa Nui
What is the oldest attested Indo-European language?
Hittite
What material was Chinese first written on?
Oracle Bones
What form do nouns take in Semitic languages when the following noun modifies it?
The construct form
What type of sound change is this:
[anta] > [atta]
Assimilation
How many noun cases does Finnish have?
15 (too many)