Languages - general

Which language has more speakers than any other language?

• Chinese (Mandarin)

• English

• Russian

• Arabian

How many languages are there in the world altogether?

• About 120,000

• About 500

• About 6000

• 12,752

What has been the maximum number of foreign languages acquired by one person?

• 15

• 2000

• 50

• 200

What is the official language of Brazil?

• Spanish

• English

• Portugese

• Brazilian

What are the two official languages of the Council of Europe?

• German and French

• English and German

• English and Russian

• English and French

Which group of languages does English belong to?

• Slavic

• Romanic

• Germanic

• Finno-Ugric

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• Latvian

• Latin

• French

• Russian

The population of which country does not speak English as their mother tongue?

• England

• The USA

• Australia

• Germany

Which two languages are related to each other?

• English and German

• Estonian and Hungarian

• Russian and Belorusian

• English and French

What was the mother tongue of William Shakespeare?

• Scottish

• English

• Irish

• Welsh