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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!”.

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

In Spanish, if a word contains all five of the language’s vowel forms it is called a “murciélago” which means ....................... – like the flying mammal or friend of vampires!

With a few exceptions, there are really only two ways to say...................... in the world. One is similar to the English term (“té” in Spanish, “tee” in Afrikaans,...). The other is a variation of “cha” (“chay” in Hindi, “chá” in Portuguese).

HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of.....................................

MANX is a.......................language closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic spoken only on the Isle of Man.

More than 200 fake languages have been created for literature and cinema (such as Elvish in............................... and Klingon in “Star Trek”).

The first language to be printed was .................

German and ........................... are the only languages in the world to capitalise nouns.

.............................. was the official language of England for over 300 years (between the Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings (1066) and the end of the 14th century).

According to UNESCO, at least ...................................of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered.

Euskara, the .................... language, is believed to be one of the oldest European languages.