Language Trivia

What is the main difference between a language and a dialect?

-A dialect is only spoken in some regions of a nation -A language has a written form, while a dialect does not -People of different dialects of a language can understand each other, while people of two different languages often cannot

Which continent has the most languages?

Africa Asia Europe

Which of these languages is not a descendant of Latin?

Catalan Galician Romanian Basque

What is the most widely spoken Native American language?

Cherokee Navajo Dakota

Including both native and non-native, which language has the most speakers in the world?

English Chinese Hindi

Which language is ASL most closely related to (not English)?

French Spanish German

What is the language with the most native speakers?

Hindi Spanish Mandarin Chinese

Of the following minority languages, which one is the most widely spoken in California?

Korean Vietnamese Tagalog

Which language has the most native speakers in the world, with more than 900 million people?

Mandarin Chinese

In which country there are over 800 languages spoken?

Papua New Guinea

What is the sentence that contains every letter in the English alphabet?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

After English, Spanish, and Chinese, which language is the most widely used in the US?

Vietnamese ASL Hindi

Which one of the following languages is not a tonal language?

Vietnamese Yoruba Russian

Which country has up to 16 official languages?

Zimbabwe South Africa Spain

Which of the following used to be a dead language, but was then successfully revived to become a living language today?

a. Hebrew b. Sanskrit c. Latin

How many languages are there in the world?

around 3,000 around 5,000 around 7,000 (7,151)