European Day of Languages

How many living languages are there estimated in the world today?

• Around 500
• Around 2000
• Around 3500
• Around 6000

. Sign language is universal. - true or false?

• true
• false

The Germanic family of languages does NOT include

• Swedish
• Icelandic
• English
• Romanian

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
• 50.000
• 150.000
• 9.000

Which of the following languages are written from right to left?

• Maltese
• Japanese
• Arabic

The Romance languages include

• Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian
• Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian
• English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian

The Slavic languages include

• Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish
• Polish, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian
• Serbian, Croatian, Greek, Bulgarian

Due to the influx of migrants and refugees, Europe has become largely multilingual. In London alone around ............. languages are spoken.

• 300
• 100
• 10
• 30

The European Day of Languages was started in

• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003