European Day of languages quiz 2024

How many living languages are there

estimated in the world today?

• Around 500

• Around 2000

• Around 6000

• Around 3500

What is generally considered to be the first

form of written language?

• Cuneiform script

• Egyptian hieroglyphs

• Cyrillic alphabet

• Phoenician script

The official language of Azerbaijan is called?

• Azerbaijanian

• Azerbaijanic

• Azeri

• Azerban

Where do sign languages come from?

• They have been copied from the great apes

  living in Africa.

• They were invented by the French Abbé de

  l'Epée between 1760 and 1789.

• They emerged naturally where deaf people

  were gathered together and are present also in

  some indigenous populations.

• They have been created in the language

  laboratory from the Gallaudet University (USA).

In which country is the language Cymraeg

spoken?

• In the Faroe Islands

• In Wales

• In Scotland

• In Ireland

Sign language is universal. -

true or false?

• true

• false

Which is the country with the

highest number of languages

spoken on its territory?

• Russia

• China

• Germany

• Norway

How many words does the

active vocabulary of a person

contain?

• 30.000 words

• 50.000 words

• 150.000 words

• 9.000 words

Which affirmation is true?

• Romanian and Bulgarian are Romance

  languages.

• Danish and Faroese are Slavic

  languages.

• Hungarian and Estonian belong to the

  Uralic language family.

• Latvian and Lithuanian belong to the

  Baltic language family.

The tongue twister

Fisker Frits fisker friske fisk

is in:

• Norwegian

• Danish

• Icelandic

• Finnish