Official Languages
What are the official languages of Canada?
English and French.
What writing system is used to write English: Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic?
Latin.
Which language family includes English: Indo-Iranian, Romance, or Germanic?
Germanic.
Which language has official status in the highest number of countries?
English (52).
Which country is home to the largest number of languages?
Papua New Guinea (800+).
What country has German, French, Italian, and Romansh as its official languages?
Switzerland.
True or false: Hindi and Urdu are linguistically identical, but are written with different scripts?
True.
Which of these languages is not related to the others: Tibetan, Burmese, or Korean?
Korean.
Which language is official in nine of the twelve countries in South America?
Spanish.
What percentage of the world's languages are considered endangered?
90%.
Swedish is an official language of both Sweden and which other country?
Finland.
Swedish uses the same alphabet as English, with how many additional letters?
Three.
Which language spoken in northern Spain has no living relatives?
Basque.
What is the most spoken language in South America?
Portuguese.
Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and which other language are all technically the same language, and are only considered separate for political reasons?
Serbian.
The United Nations has six official languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and which other?
Arabic.
Khmer (74).
Which language family includes the Kazakh language: Slavic, Turkic, or Uralic?
Turkic.
How may official languages does Australia have?
Zero.
The island of La Gomera (part of Spain) has its own dialect of Spanish made up entirely of what sound?
Whistling.
International Mother Language Day is commemorated on February 21 every year as a result of which language trying to get recognition in Pakistan?
Bengali.
Kazakh has a different written script in each country it is spoken in: Latin in Kazakhstan, Cyrillic in Mongolia, and Arabic in which Asian country?
China.
Which of these is a recently adopted theory that connects languages in Siberia and North America: Burushaski, Chadic, or Na-Dene?
Na-Dene.
Which country has 37 official languages, some of which are extinct?
Bolivia.
Which European language is famous for refusing to borrow foreign words, instead making up new words?
Icelandic.