Languages

More than half of the world's languages have no written form.

• True

• False

Most people in the world are monolingual; that is, they only know how to speak one language.

• True

• False

There is a dictionary of every language in the world.

• True

• False

You can translate information from any language to any other language and have the translation mean exactly the same thing as the original.

• True

• False

If everyone in the world spoke the same language, we would all benefit in increased understanding and efficiency, and lose nothing.

• True

• False

All speakers of endangered languages want linguists to record their languages.

• True

• False

Most people who speak more than one language learn their second and third languages in school.

• True

• False

If you trace them back far enough, all languages are related to each other.

• True

• False

Around how many languages are spoken in the world today?

• 70

• 700

• 7,000

• 70,000

What percent of the world's languages are expected to disappear during this century?

• 1%

• 5%

• 25%

• 50%