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General knowledge about world languages

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many languages are there in the world?

a)

Around 700

b)

Around 3,000

c)

Around 7,000

d)

Around 15,000

2.

Which of these languages uses the Latin alphabet ?

a)

Thai

b)

Indonesian

c)

Japanese

d)

Ukraininan

3.

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

a)

Afrikaans

b)

German

c)

Bengali

d)

Korean

4.

Where do historians believe the earliest writing comes from ?

a)

Mesopatamia

b)

Egypt

c)

India

d)

Crete

5.

What does it mean to be a dead language ?

a)

There are less than 100 speakers of the language

b)

There are no living speakers of the language

c)

There no living native speakers of the language

d)

The language is indecipherable

6.

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

a)

The United States

b)

Australia

c)

Mexico

d)

Canada

7.

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 ?

a)

Subject-verb-object

b)

Object-subject-verb

c)

Verb-subject-object

d)

Subject-object-verb

8.

"Olá" word is in which languge?

a)

Spanish

b)

Portuguese

c)

Swedish

d)

Macedonian

9.

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

a)

True

b)

False

10.

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

a)

20

b)

36

c)

41

d)

52