Mother language day

What day is the 21.02.2022?

• Christmas Eve

• Mother language day

• Black Friday

• Easter Monday

Answer explanation

The 21.02.2022 is international mother language day. This quiz is dedicated for this special event. Each student can participate in order to win a price for their own class. You have time till the 27.02.2022 to answer the questions. Good luck!

What is a "Mother language"?

• The language every mother is speaking.

• A language through which people of a nation express themselves clearly

• A language only mothers understand between each other

• A secret language between a mother and her child

What is the root of the international mother language day?

• Protests in 1947 in East Bengal

• A language reform 1861 in England

• The development of a new language 2005 in Italy

• Changing laws in Greece 1989

Answer explanation

Language-protest started in November-December 1947 in the East Bengal capital Dhaka. East Parkistan people demanded Bangla to be at least one of their national languages. On 21 February 1952, police opened fire on rallies. People sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue. Since then, Bangladeshis celebrate the International Mother Language Day. 21 February was declared to be the International Mother Language Day by UNESCO in 1999.

Around how many languages are spoken today?

• 500-600

• 1000-1500

• 4500-5500

• 7000+

Answer explanation

7,139 languages are spoken today.

Many languages are in danger to extinct.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Many languages get lost.

One of the world’s 7,000 distinct languages disappears every 14 days.

Which is the oldest language that is still used today?

• Afrikaans

• Latin

• Tamil

• Yiddish

Answer explanation

Spoken by 78 million people and official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore, Tamil is with around 5000 years the oldest language in the world. It is the only ancient language that has survived all the way to the modern world.

The letters in the picture belong to which alphabet?

• Arabic

• Gerogian

• Russian

• Chinese

"Good morning" in Norwegian is...

• Buongiorno

• Buenos días

• Guten Morgen

• God morgen

According to the dictionary, which of the following languages has to most words?

• German

• English

• Spanish

• French

Answer explanation

According to the dictionary the English language has over 200,000 words. There are about 145,000 German words, 130,000 French words and 88,000 Spanish words.

The language "Basque" is spoken in...

• South Korea

• South Africa

• Japan

• North-central Spain