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Endonyms
100

¡Bienvenido! Empecemos con algo fácil, ¿quieres? ¿Cuál es tu nombre?

name

100

ελληνική γλώσσα

Greek

100

Hola, Hallo, and Olá are all cognates of what common greeting?

Hello

100

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

100

Around the world the impacts of Hellenization are still felt today. The Έλληνες referred to by Hellenization corresponds to which ethnic group? 

The Greeks

200

Er ist von der Leiter gefallen!

fallen/fell

200

This language, like its counterparts, is known for being written left to right.

בשפה הזאת אנחנו כותבים מימין לשמאל

Hebrew

200

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

200

This inscription on the aedicula of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is an example of this script.

PAVLVS BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS

Latin

200

Німеччина, Saksa, Tyskland, and Alemania are all endonyms for which country in English?

Germany

300

Bonjour mon ami! Comment ça va aujourd'hui?

today

300

Ich habe große Angst vor Elektrizität.

German

300

Olá, bem-vindo a São Paulo! "Much obliged!" is the response. What Latin-derived Portuguese word is a cognate of this response.  

Obrigado!

300

Farsi (Persian) is written with this script which falls under the category of an abjad.

فارسی

Arabic

300

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

400

Ik haat teken, omdat ze mijn bloed zuigen.

hate

400

Það er sykur uppi á þessum ísjaka þarna!

Icelandic

400

Mark Zuckerberg must have struck upon a mountain-load of sweetness. What two English cognates make up his name? 

Sugar, berg (mountain)

400

Between these four scripts, which is likely the oldest?

𐏓𒑚𒐖𒀼𒐕𐎣𒆸𒇲𐎠 (Cuneiform)   甲骨文 (Ch. Characters)

संस्कृतसाहित्यम् (Devanagari)       𐤔𐤐𐤕𐤟𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 (Phoenician)

Cuneiform

400

Bohemia, the kingdom belonging to the Celtic tribe of the Boii makes up a part of which Western Slavic Republic?

Czechia

500

Acum mult timp, romanii trăiau aici.

time (temporary, tempo, etc.)


A long time ago, the Romans lived here.

500

ኢትዮጵያ ጠንካራ ሀገር ነች!

Amharic (Ethiopia)

500

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

500

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

500

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