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Languages of the World
How well do you know the spread, history, influence, and basic meaning of various languages around the world?
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Last updated: May 22, 2025
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1. Which of the following is not one of the official languages of the UN?
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Hindi
Russian
Spanish
2. In which country is English NOT an official language?
English is by far the most spoken language in Australia, but Australia has no official language.
Australia
Cameroon
India
Nigeria
3. In which country is French NOT an official language?
The official languages of Algeria are Arabic and Tamazight (Berber).
Algeria
Chad
Guinea
Senegal
4. In which country is Spanish NOT an official language?
Like Australia, Mexico does not have an official language.
Argentina
Bolivia
Equatorial Guinea
Mexico
5. In which country is Portuguese NOT an official language?
The official languages of Madagascar are French and Malagasy.
Angola
Brazil
Madagascar
Mozambique
6. In which country is Arabic NOT an official language?
Iran speaks Persian, not Arabic.
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Tunisia
7. Which of the following is not a dialect of Persian?
Pashto is its own language, spoken by roughly half of the population of Afghanistan.
Dari
Farsi
Pashto
Tajik
8. Which of the following is NOT a dialect of Chinese?
Lao is its own language, and is spoken in Laos, not China.
Gan
Hakka
Jin
Lao
Min
Wu
Xiang
9. Where is Tamil an official language?
India and Malaysia
India and Singapore
India and Sri Lanka
Malaysia and Singapore
Malaysia and Sri Lanka
Singapore and Sri Lanka
10. Which language is not written in the Cyrillic script?
Albanian is written in Latin script. Also, fun fact: Albanian is also not a Slavic language, but a language isolate.
Albanian
Bulgarian
Macedonian
Mongolian
Ukrainian
11. Which of the following is NOT a writing system of Japanese?
Hangul is the Korean writing system.
Hangul
Hiragana
Kanji
Katakana
12. Which is known as the language Jesus spoke?
Arabic
Aramaic
Coptic
Hebrew
13. Which of the following languages originates from Asia?
Kannada is spoken in southwestern India. The rest are all African languages.
Hausa
Igbo
Kannada
Shona
Yoruba
Zulu
14. Which of the following does not mean “goodbye”?
Aloha, ciao, and tschüss all double as greetings and goodbyes in Hawaiian, Italian, and German respectively. However, if you say belo chapéu, you’re complimenting someone’s hat in Portuguese.
Aloha!
Au revoir!
Belo chapéu!
Ciao!
Tschüss!
¡Hasta luego!
À bientôt!
15. Which language was created in 1887 as an international lingua franca?
The other three also serve as a lingua franca in many parts, but were not intentionally created as such as a universal language, and formed over time.
Esperanto
Indonesian
Swahili
Tagalog
16. Of Ethiopia’s five national languages, which is the most spoken?
Afar
Amharic
Oromo
Somali
Tigrinya
17. What was the official language of Yugoslavia?
German
Hungarian
Macedonian
Russian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovenian
18. Which country is correctly matched with its official language?
The correct answers are: Guyana- English. Montenegro- Montenegrin. Suriname- Dutch. Trinidad and Tobago- English.
Guyana- Spanish
Montenegro- Spanish
San Marino- Italian
Suriname- English
Trinidad and Tobago- Spanish
19. What does the Arabic phrase “assalamualaikum” mean?
Congratulations
God is the greatest
Goodbye/May God protect you
Hello/Peace be unto you
20. Which language family does Finnish fall into?
Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are all Uralic languages, thought to have been influenced by the Mongols.
Germanic
None (language isolate)
Romance
Slavic
Turkic
Uralic
21. Which of the following writing systems was NOT found on the Rosetta Stone?
The stone was written in Egyptian (Hieroglyphic and demotic) and Greek, and was crucial to translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Cuneiform
Demotic script
Greek
Hieroglyphs
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