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WorksheetsCURIOUS FACTS ABOUT LANGUAGES
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 38mins
There are over ........ languages in the world.
seven thousand
seven hundred
seventy thousand
seventeen thousand
English is the language with the most words.
TRUE
FALSE
The Cambodian alphabet has ......... letters.
62
52
72
The Rokotas language has the shortest alphabet with only ...
11 characters
12 characters
8 characters
Most of the World's languages are spoken in ....
Europe and Asia
Asia and Indonesia
Asia and Africa
Japanese has ......... different alphabets.
3
2
4
South Africa has eleven .....
dialects
languages
official languages
Hebrew is the only extinct language that ...
is used in Science.
has been successfully revived.
was used in The Bible.
There are over ........ artificial languages.
200
2,000
7,000
All languages are written in one direction.
TRUE
FALSE
All languages use the same alphabet.
TRUE
FALSE
William Shakespeare invented ....... words.
17,000
1,700
170
Learning a second language can .... your brain.
boot
boost
bot
The Khmer language has the l.. alphabet in the world.
(a)
The Taa language (spoken in Botswana and Namibia) is considered the language with the most sounds in the world.
TRUE
FALSE
The Cuneiform writing is the e (a) known form of written language.
Braille is a language with a t (a) structure.
Latin appears as a language option in the ATMs in the Vatican.
TRUE
FALSE
Japanese is the f (a) language in the world.
There are over ..... minority languages in Russia.
100
1,000
10
The Dogri language has 2,6 million of speakers, but it is not taught anymore in the north of India.
TRUE
FALSE
The Sign l (a) is not universal. Every country has a different way to use it.
In Korean, there are words and ways to talk depending on the level of ....
education
respect
cholesterol
Basque is a linguistic m (a) . It is not related to any known language family.
Sign languages have the same speed according to the dialect.
TRUE
FALSE
In French, there are at least 13 ways to pronounce the l (a) "o"
The letter "i" is the most common letter in the English language.
TRUE
FALSE
More than ......... characters are needed to read a newspaper in Mandarin.
1,000
2,000
20,000
The first language in the world was the S (a)
M (a) words in Thai are made up of monosyllables
The K (a) language was originally created for a movie and then it was developed into a full language.
Arabic has no ....... letters.
script
bold
capital
English has the shortest grammatically correct sentence which is ....
Sit!
Go!
Look!
German was the first language ....
printed
written
spoken
Latin is not spoken as a ......
living language
dead language
artificial language
In Papua Guinea, there are ....... languages.
800
740
840
The Bible was t (a) into 450 languages.
The Hawaiian language has only 10 letters.
TRUE
FALSE
The Aymara language does not have past, present or future tenses. Verbs exist only in the infinitive form.
TRUE
FALSE
There are around 610 different English dialects.
TRUE
FALSE
The "silbo gomero" is a language that uses whistles to talk across m (a) and valleys.
In several A (a) languages, the meaning of the word changes based on the tone used to pronounce the syllable.
German is the most widely spoken language in the ....
EU
UN
US
The United Nations (UN) has six official languages:
Mandarin
Amharic
French
Russian
Spanish
English
Mandarin
Arabic
French
Russian
Spanish
English
Nüshu was a language used only by Chinese
men
children
women
More than ....... languages are spoken in the city of London.
30
600
300
Kawesqar is an indigenous language spoken by only 8 people.
TRUE
FALSE
Mandarin has around ......... different characters.
50,000
5,000
500,000
Nowadays, E (a) is the Lingua Franca of the world.
Languages change constantly. It is estimated that ........ of words are added to languages every year.
hundreds
tens
thousands
