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Languages Quiz🌎🌍🌏🚘

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the oldest language in the world?

a)

Greek

b)

Chinese

c)

Latin

d)

Egyptian

2.

What is the most popular spoken language?

a)

English

b)

Russian

c)

Arabic

d)

Mandarin

e)

Bengali

3.

What language is the Bible first written in?

a)

English

b)

Latin

c)

Ukraine

d)

Hebrew

4.

What language was spoken by Roman Empire?

a)

Latin

b)

Italian

c)

Greek

d)

Welsh

5.

what language is spoken in Argentina?

a)

Argentinese

b)

Spanish

c)

Portuguese

d)

Latin

6.

What language is spoken in India?

a)

Hindi

b)

English

c)

Indese

d)

Mongonese

7.

What language is the song Despacito sang?

a)

Russian

b)

Spanish

c)

American-English

d)

Portuguese

8.

What is the most difficult language for English native speakers?

a)

Korean

b)

Czech

c)

Slovenian

d)

Russian

9.

What is the newest language, created by a man called Zamenhof?

a)

Esperanto

b)

Kantonese

c)

Telugu

d)

Tibidabo

10.

Which American President can speak Chinese?

a)

George Washington

b)

Donald Trump

c)

John Adams

d)

Herbert Hoover

11.

How many words are there in English?

a)

about 3.4 million

b)

about 1 million

c)

about 340,000

d)

about 100,000

12.

There are 7.5 billion people in the world. How many speak English?

a)

1.5 billion

b)

1.5 million

c)

5.6 billion

d)

5.6 million

13.

What percentage of the world speaks English?

a)

about 20%

b)

about 10%

c)

about 30%

d)

about 5%

14.

How many people speak English as a FIRST language?

a)

360 million

b)

170 million

c)

980 million

d)

690 million

15.

How many letters are in the Greek alphabet?

a)

20

b)

24

c)

26

d)

28

16.

What is the longest alphabet in the world?

a)

Khmer

b)

Chinese

c)

Russian

d)

Arabic

17.

How many letters are in the longest alphabet in the world?

a)

74

b)

106

c)

38

d)

92

18.

Which of these languages does not have an alphabet?

a)

Chinese

b)

Norwegian

c)

Russian

d)

Korean

19.

Which alphabet has these letters æ ø å?

a)

Norwegian

b)

Finnish

c)

Polish

d)

Czech

20.

Which country speaks Maori?

a)

New Zealand

b)

Australia

c)

USA

d)

Canada

21.

Are there capital letters in Arabic?

a)

yes

b)

no

c)

sometimes

22.

How many languages are there in the world?

a)

About 7,000

b)

about 700

c)

about 70

d)

about 70,000

23.

95% of the world's population speak how many different languages?

a)

3

b)

30

c)

300

d)

3,000

24.

What percentage of the world's languages are endangered?

a)

10

b)

20

c)

30

d)

40

25.

Which country has the most languages?

a)

Papua New Guinea

b)

Indonesia

c)

Nigeria

d)

India

26.

How many different languages are spoken in Indonesia?

a)

710

b)

71

c)

7,100

d)

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