From which language/s does English get most of its words?
Latin and French
What is the most widely spoken dialect of Chinese?
Mandarin
Italian is the language of what art?
Music
From which non-romance language does Spanish have the most loan-words?
Arabic
French is the working language of which art style(s)?
Dance / Ballet
What was the first and official bible printed in English called? The ______ ______ Bible.
The King James Bible
Comprising over 92% of all Chinese people, what is the largest ethnic group in China?
Han
What does Renaissance (Rinascimento) mean?
Rebirth
What is the standard dialect of the Spanish language called?
Castilian (Castellano)
From which tribe of people does the word "French" come from?
The Franks
Which tribe is the English language named after?
The Angles, a Germanic tribe that migrated to England
The Chinese language is written not with letters, but with what? (not hieroglyphs)
Logogram, or character
What language did Italian evolve from?
Vulgar Latin
The north-west of Spain speaks the Galician language (Gallego). From which tribe of people does this language's name come from?
The Gauls / Celts
What language did French evolve from?
Its a kind of Latin
Gallo-Roman /Gallic-Latin
Beowulf, written around 725 A.D., was written in what Germanic language?
Old English, or Anglo-Saxon
"China" in Chinese is called Zhōngguó. What does Zhōngguó mean?
Middle country / kingdom
Which Italian dialect is the standard Italian language based on?
Florentine, Tuscan
The first grammar book for a modern European language was written in Spanish. In which century was it written?
15th
Which century was the "Grande Siècle", the great century of France when French was used as the primary language in arts and sciences.
The 17th century
In which century was the first English dictionary published?
18th
The western name for the country is "China". What is it based on?
The Qin (Chin) dynasty
What are the Language-dialects of Northern Italy called?
Gallo/Gallic
Andalusia gets its name from the Arabic Al-Andalus. After which tribe that lived in Spain did the Arabs name this region?
Vandals
In Haiti French is spoken along side which other language?
Hatian Creole