Interpreter
¡Bienvenido! Empecemos con algo fácil, ¿quieres? ¿Cuál es tu nombre?
name
ελληνική γλώσσα
Greek
Hola, Hallo, and Olá are all cognates of what common greeting?
Hello
This script was developed by students of Methodius and Cyril, specifically for the Slavic populace under their ministry. It is based heavily on the Greek script.
Українська мова - Русский язык
Cyrillic
Around the world the impacts of Hellenization are still felt today. The Έλληνες referred to by Hellenization corresponds to which ethnic group?
The Greeks
Er ist von der Leiter gefallen!
fallen/fell
This language, like its counterparts, is known for being written left to right.
בשפה הזאת אנחנו כותבים מימין לשמאל
Hebrew
Basic vocabulary in English such as sword, answer, book, and tongue which have cognates in schwert, antwort, buch, and zunge, belong to which language family?
Germanic
This inscription on the aedicula of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is an example of this script.
PAVLVS BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS
Latin
Німеччина, Saksa, Tyskland, and Alemania are all endonyms for which country in English?
Germany
Bonjour mon ami! Comment ça va aujourd'hui?
today
Ich habe große Angst vor Elektrizität.
German
Olá, bem-vindo a São Paulo! "Much obliged!" is the response. What Latin-derived Portuguese word is a cognate of this response.
Obrigado!
Farsi (Persian) is written with this script which falls under the category of an abjad.
فارسی
Arabic
Alongside the regions of Transylvania and Wallachia is the region of Moldavia, which shares its name with the neighboring country of Moldova. Which country do these regions belong to?
Romania
Ik haat teken, omdat ze mijn bloed zuigen.
hate
Það er sykur uppi á þessum ísjaka þarna!
Icelandic
Mark Zuckerberg must have struck upon a mountain-load of sweetness. What two English cognates make up his name?
Sugar, berg (mountain)
Between these four scripts, which is likely the oldest?
𐏓𒑚𒐖𒀼𒐕𐎣𒆸𒇲𐎠 (Cuneiform) 甲骨文 (Ch. Characters)
संस्कृतसाहित्यम् (Devanagari) 𐤔𐤐𐤕𐤟𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 (Phoenician)
Cuneiform
Bohemia, the kingdom belonging to the Celtic tribe of the Boii makes up a part of which Western Slavic Republic?
Czechia
Acum mult timp, romanii trăiau aici.
A long time ago, the Romans lived here.
ኢትዮጵያ ጠንካራ ሀገር ነች!
Amharic (Ethiopia)
𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (Khshayarsha), אחשורוש, or Ahasuerus was the king of Persia in the story of Esther. His name in Greek, Ξέρξης, equates to what name in English?
Xerxes
Most scripts are written in rows starting from either the left or right. This traditional script, Hudum, is written vertically from the top-down in columns, much like can be seen with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, and belongs to which ethnic group.
ᠬᠦᠮᠦᠨ ᠪᠦᠷ ᠲᠥᠷᠥᠵᠦ ᠮᠡᠨᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠦ ᠡᠷᠬᠡ ᠴᠢᠯᠥᠭᠡ ᠲᠡᠢ᠂
Mongols
Noah was instructed to make the ark out of gopher wood, but what is gopher wood? The Semitic triconsonantal root is k-p-r. A related Greek word is κυπάρισσος. Others link this country's name to its important copper trade.
Cyprus