European Day of Languages

ITALIAN didn’t ‘officially’ become the official language of Italy until .................

• 2001

• 1990

• 2007

THE SILBO LANGUAGE of La Gomera, Spain, is an ancient .......................... language and is still being taught in local schools.

• singing

• whistling

• shouting

The Voynich Manuscript is a book from the 15th century, written in.....................................

• Old English.

• Gaelic Scottish.

• a language no one can identify.

........................is the only European language in the Afro-Asiatic family.

• Maltese

• Berber

• Hebrew

In the Australian Guugu Yimithirr language there are no words for......................

• in or on.

• up or down.

• left or right.

.......................... is very similar to ancient Sanskrit and is the oldest spoken Indo-European language.

• Swedish

• Lithuanian

• Armenian

Typically, native speakers know ..................................... word families but individual speakers normally use only a few hundred.

• 15,000 to 20,000

• 1500 to 2000

• 150000 to 200000

In SWEDISH, “gift” means both .........................

• love and hate.

• present and treasure.

• married and poison.

In ........................... “lele” can mean “oh wow” or “oh my goodness” and you can add lele as often as you like. So you can say: “Lele lele lele lele – what a pretty dog!”.

• Romanian

• Macedonian

• Bulgarian

European cities are the perfect place to observe multilingual diversity: In London, for example, more than ..................... languages are spoken!

• 30

• 300

• 3000