WHERE IN EUROPE?
This country looks like a boot and its main language is Italian.
Italy
Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian developed mainly from the same ancient language. Which one?
Latin
French: famille
Italian: famiglia
Spanish: familia
Which English word are these words related to?
Family
Which language is this written in?
Καλημέρα
Greek
Name ONE European country where German is widely spoken but which is NOT Germany.
Austria / Switzerland / Liechtenstein
I border Spain. My capital starts with L, but Spanish is not my official language. Which country am I?
Portugal
English is more closely related to which language: German or Spanish?
German
German: Haus
Dutch: huis
English: house
What does this similarity suggest?
The languages are related / they belong to the Germanic language family.
Which writing system is used in this word?
България
A) Greek
B) Cyrillic
C) Arabic
D) Latin
B) Cyrillic
Belgium has three official languages. Name TWO of them.
Dutch, French, German
German is my main language, my capital is Vienna, and I am not Germany. Which country am I?
Austria
Which group contains ONLY Slavic languages?
A) Polish – Czech – Croatian
B) French – Romanian – Polish
C) German – Dutch – Swedish
D) Spanish – Italian – Greek
A) Polish – Czech – Croatian
Which word probably means “milk”?
A) Italian: latte
B) German: Brot
C) French: maison
D) Polish: noc
A) latte
The word “Европа” means “Europe”. Which of these countries is most likely to write the word this way?
A) Bulgaria
B) Ireland
C) Portugal
D) Belgium
A) Bulgaria
Catalan is spoken in Spain, but it is the official language of another European country. Which country?
Andorra
My capital is Helsinki. My main language is related to Estonian, but not to Swedish or Norwegian. Which country am I?
Finland
Which language is the odd one out?
Swedish – Danish – Norwegian – Finnish
Explain why.
Finnish. Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are Germanic languages, while Finnish is a Uralic language.
Spanish: dos
Italian: due
French: deux
Portuguese: dois
What number do all these words mean?
Two
True or false?
“If two European languages use the Latin alphabet, they must belong to the same language family.”
Explain your answer.
False. Languages can use the same alphabet but belong to different families. For example, Spanish is Romance and Finnish is Uralic.
Switzerland has four national languages. Name THREE of them.
German, French, Italian, Romansh
I am a small European island country. My language is Semitic, but it is written with the Latin alphabet. Which country am I?
Malta
Basque is often described as a “language isolate”. What does this mean?
It has no known living linguistic relatives / it is not known to belong to another language family.
Look at these words:
English: three
German: drei
Dutch: drie
Spanish: tres
Italian: tre
Divide the five languages into TWO language branches.
Germanic: English, German, Dutch
Romance: Spanish, Italian
Greek uses its own alphabet. Bulgarian uses Cyrillic. Spanish uses the Latin alphabet.
Does the alphabet a language uses tell us exactly which language family it belongs to?
No. Writing systems and language families are different things.
Name ALL FOUR national languages of Switzerland
German, French, Italian and Romansh