European Day of Languages QUIZ

Esperanto was founded by ...

• the Polish oculist Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof

• the Spanish doctor Juan Esperanto

• the Columbian traveller Miguel Esperantoss

How many lanuages are spoken in London?

• about 50

• about 100

• about 300

Italian didn't officially become the official language of Italy until ...

• 2017

• 2007

• 1007

The longest word of all European languages comes from ...

• Hungarian

• German

• Polish

Which European language is similar to Sanskrit?

• Lithuanian

• Dutch

• Iranian

Hebrew and Arabic are written ...

• from up to down

• from right to left

• from left to right

About 45% of English words come from

• Latin

• French

• German

What is a 'tongue twister'?

• A sequence of words or sounds that are dfficult to pronounce

• A person who often mispronounces words or sounds

• The longest word in a given language

The only languages in the world which capitalise nouns are ...

• German and Latin

• Japanese and Hungarian

• German and Luxembourgish

In Spanish, an interrogative sentence is accompanied by ...

• two exclamation marks

• two full stops

• two question marks