Language quiz

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In what country is Tagalog mainly spoken?

Which European country is known in its own language as Suomi?

Name the official language of Andorra.

Brazil is the only South American country with Portuguese as an official language. Name the only African country with Spanish as an official language.

What adjective is used to describe a writing system such as Chinese in which words are represented by whole characters rather than alphabetically?

Maltese, Hebrew and Arabic belong to which branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family?

What language has the two-letter ISO 639-1 code sq?

Name the four official languages of Singapore.

In Spanish, the word tres means the number 3 (three). However the same word tres refers to a different number in Danish. What number?

Name the four national languages of Switzerland.

English, French and Chinese are three of the six official languages of the United Nations. Name the other three.

What letter in English (a consonant) has a sound that may be described as a “voiced labiodental fricative”?