IPA
Etymology
Languages
Scripts
Linguistics
100

The novel written by John green represented here: /peɪpɚ taʊnz/

What is Paper Towns?

100

The last color word to enter in most languages (last color to be named)

What is blue?

100

The current estimated number of spoken languages

What is ~7,000?

100

εβδομάδα

What is Greek?

100

The branch of linguistics that studies the specific sound patterns in a language

What is Phonology?

200

Name this sound: ʕ

What is a voiced pharyngeal fricative?

200

A name for a place or group of people that is only used outside that place or group

What is an exonym?

200

Language family with the highest number of languages

What is Niger-Congo?

200

நான் நன்றாக இருக்கிறேன்

What is Tamil?

200

A line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features

What is an isogloss?

300

Name this: ◌̰

What is the creaky voiced diacritic?


300

The city called "River of January", after the city harbor was discovered on January 1, 1502, and was believed to be the mouth of a river

What is Rio de Janeiro?
300

The only Conlang with a population of native speakers

What is Esperanto?

300

မဂႆလာပၝ

What is Burmese?

300

When between-category discrimination is better than within-category

What is categorical perception?

400

The year the earliest version of the IPA was published

1888

400

The Canary Islands find their name from this Latin name:

What is Canariae Insulae ("Island of the Dogs")?
400

The country with the most spoken languages

What is Papua New Guinea?

400

მთავრული

What is Georgian?

What is Mkhedruli?

400

When a single word expresses multiple related meanings

What is polysemy?

500

Name this sound: ǂ

What is a palatoalveolar click?

500

The hormone in the body that is known by two names, one derived from Latin and one from Greek (give the names with origin and meaning)

What are epinephrine (Greek, "upon kidney") and adrenaline (Latin, "on kidney")

500

A language that Korean is proven to be related to

What is none?

What is Jeju

500

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།

What is uchen?

500

OSU Professor Emeritus, inventor of higher-order grammar, head grammar, and co-inventor of head-driven phrase structure grammar

Who is Carl Pollard?