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What is the most widely spoken language in the world by native speakers?
What is Mandarin Chinese?
In the film "Finding Nemo," what language does Dory speak fluently, much to the surprise of other characters?
What is whale?
Describes a person who is fluent in multiple languages and can easily switch between them.
What is a polyglot?
The classical language of ancient India is called what?
What is Sanskrit?
Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian all evolved from which ancient language?
Latin
Ancient Greek was primarily spoken in which ancient city-state?
What is Athens?
Which continent is home to the most diverse range of languages, with over 2,000 different languages spoken?
What is Africa?
The Indo-European language family includes this classical language, known for its influence on European languages.
What is Latin?
Chinese characters in basic literacy.
What is 2000?
The only planet not named after a God.
What is Earth?
The English word "Thursday" is named after the Norse god Thor.
Who is the God of Thunder?
This Canadian city is officially bilingual, with both English and French as its official languages.
What is Ottawa?
English is a Germanic language, but it has borrowed many words from which language due to historical influences?
What is French?
If you're traveling in Japan and want to say "thank you," what word should you use?
What is "arigatou" or "arigatou gozaimasu"?
The Bantu language family, which includes Swahili, Zulu, and Xhosa, originated in which continent?
What is Africa?
The only country in the world whose nationals shed blood for their mother language and liberation.
Bangladesh.
This phobia involves a fear of encountering a long word when reading aloud or in a social context.
What is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
The English word "ballet" is borrowed from which language, known for its contributions to the arts?
What is French?
The word "philosophy" has its roots in Greek. What does "philosophy" literally mean in Greek?
What is "love of wisdom"?
Algebra, algorithm, and alcohol are words borrowed from this language that made significant contributions to mathematics, science, and culture
What is Arabic?
The formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.
What is hieroglyphics?
Approximately how many languages are spoken in New York City, making it one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world?
What is over 800?
Many African languages belong to language families like Afroasiatic and Niger-Congo. This African country is known for having over 1,000 indigenous languages.
What is Nigeria?
The linguist is famous for developing the theory of transformational-generative grammar, which revolutionized the study of syntax and language structure.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
On the subject of new words, this person came up with a pretty large collection of novel terms, inventing more than 1700 words.
Who is William Shakespeare?