Guess the Language
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What is Portuguese?
Linguists estimate this many languages approximately exist in the world today.
What is 7,000?
This system of phonetic notation is used by linguists around the world.
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
This language has the most non-native speakers in the world.
What is English?
From this classical language, roughly half of English words are directly/indirectly derived.
What is Latin?
Wszyscy ludzie rodzą się wolni i równi pod względem swej godności i swych praw. Są oni obdarzeni rozumem i sumieniem i powinni postępować wobec innych w duchu braterstwa.
What is Polish?
This modern language native to Europe has no known relatives in its language family.
What is Basque?
What is /a e i o u/?
Bilinguals make up this percentage of the population.
?What is 50%
This branch of linguistics is primarily concerned with how languages change over time.
What is Historical Linguistics?
Все люди рождаются свободными и равными в своем достоинстве и правах. Они наделены разумом и совестью и должны поступать в отношении друг друга в духе братства.
What is Russian?
True or False: Sign Language is universal.
False
This is the abstract form that a word or morpheme is theorized to have before the phonological rules apply.
What is the underlying representation?
This Dravidian language is still spoken today, but often labeled as the oldest language in the world.
What is Tamil?
人人生而平等，喺尊严同埋权利上一律平等。佢哋有理性同埋良心，而且应当以兄弟关系嘅精神相对待
What is Catonese?
This type of language develops between two or more groups of people who do not share a mutually intelligible language.
What is a pidgin?
True or False: By the age of 12 months, deaf children have a more advanced grasp of vocabulary and word classes than hearing children.
True
Nochi tlakamej uan siuamej kipiaj manoj kuali tlakatisej, nochi san se totlatechpouiltilis uan titlatepanitalojkej, yeka moneki kuali ma timouikakaj, ma timoiknelikaj, ma timotlasojtlakaj uan ma timotlepanitakaj.
What is Nahuatl (Aztec)?
This is a "bridge" language adopted as a common form of communication between speakers of different native languages.
What is a Lingua Franca?
This phoneme is one of the five most common, cross-linguistically.
What is /m k i a j/?
This chimpanzee was taught ASL in an attempt to further human language acquisition research?
Who is Nim Chimpsky?
This syllabic script was used in the earliest form of written Greek.
What is Linear B Script?