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Languages by Wikipedia Descriptions - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 260 times
- The average score is 16 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| It is the most widely learned second language and is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states | English | 99%
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| It evolved from Vulgar Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans during the Second Punic War | Spanish | 97%
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| The Quran and Hadith were written in it | Arabic | 95%
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| Having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society | Italian | 92%
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| Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors | Hebrew | 91%
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| New words have been formed by adding affixes such as lao- (老), -zi (子), -(e)r (儿/兒), and -tou (头/頭) | Mandarin | 91%
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| It is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, with 144 million speakers | Russian | 91%
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| The languages that are most similar are Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish | German | 89%
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| Dialects from peripheral regions, such as Tōhoku or Kagoshima, may be unintelligible to speakers from the other parts of the country | Japanese | 87%
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| Also known by its endonym Bangla | Bengali | 83%
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| An Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore | Malay | 83%
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| It was used as the language of international communication, scholarship and science until well into the 18th century, when it began to be supplanted by vernaculars (including the Romance languages) | Latin | 82%
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| It would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire | Greek | 76%
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| His original title for the language was simply "the international language" | Esperanto | 66%
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| It is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and is a language isolate in relation to any other known living language | Basque | 63%
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| The ultimate source for current estimates of the number of users in the United States is a report for the National Census of the Deaf Population (NCDP) by Schein and Delk (1974) | American Sign Language | 61%
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| It is a standardized variety of the Tagalog language, an Austronesian regional language that is widely spoken in the Philippines | Filipino | 61%
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| It is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and the predominant language of most works of Hindu philosophy as well as some of the principal texts of Buddhism and Jainism | Sanskrit | 56%
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| According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken of the Bantu languages, after Swahili | Zulu | 53%
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| It stands alongside Hindi and English as one of the few languages with primary official language status in more than one Indian state | Telugu | 34%
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