European Day of Languages

The European Day of Languages is a celebration of the amazing number and ... of languages spoken across Europe.

Schools and organisations mark the event every year with a European languages day to ... language learning and to celebrate the linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe.

The European Day of Languages ... on the 26th of September every year.

How did the European Day of Languages start?

• 1982

• 1950

• 2001

• 2010

There are more than 225 languages spoken in Europe, representing around ...% of the world’s total languages.

• 5

• 20

• 10

• 3

Languages are sometimes related to each other if they come from similar roots. These are known as ‘...’. The three main language families in Europe are Germanic, Romance and Slavic.

Most European languages use the ... alphabet and some Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet.

London is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, as over ... languages are spoken there.

• 20

• 300

• 250

• 10

The European Union has ... official languages.

• 24

• 35

• 12

• 56

The language which has most recently become an official language of the ... is Croatian