General knowledge about world languages

How many languages are there in the world?

• Around 700

• Around 3,000

• Around 7,000

• Around 15,000

Which of these languages uses the Latin alphabet ?

• Thai

• Indonesian

• Japanese

• Ukraininan

Which of the following is NOT an Indo-European language?

• Afrikaans

• German

• Bengali

• Korean

Where do historians believe the earliest writing comes from ?

• Mesopatamia

• Egypt

• India

• Crete

What does it mean to be a dead language ?

• There are less than 100 speakers of the language

• There are no living speakers of the language

• There no living native speakers of the language

• The language is indecipherable

Which of these countries has at least one legally official language ?

• The United States

• Australia

• Mexico

• Canada

English has subject-verb-object word order. For example, "I (subject) love (verb) cats (object). " WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON WORD ORDER ACROSS ALL LANGUAGES ?

• Subject-verb-object

• Object-subject-verb

• Verb-subject-object

• Subject-object-verb

"Olá" word is in which languge?

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Swedish

• Macedonian

"O" sound can be spelled in 14 different ways in french. Is it TRUE or FALSE ?

• True

• False

Which rank is Turkish among the most spoken languages in the world ?

• 20

• 36

• 41

• 52