Languages of the World - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which of the following is not one of the official languages of the UN?	Hindi	88%
In which country is Portuguese NOT an official language?	Madagascar	88%
What was the official language of Yugoslavia?	Serbo-Croatian	88%
Which language was created in 1887 as an international lingua franca?	Esperanto	85%
In which country is Arabic NOT an official language?	Iran	85%
Which country is correctly matched with its official language?	San Marino- Italian	85%
Which is known as the language Jesus spoke?	Aramaic	82%
Which language family does Finnish fall into?	Uralic	76%
Which language is not written in the Cyrillic script?	Albanian	70%
Which of the following is NOT a writing system of Japanese?	Hangul	67%
Which of the following languages originates from Asia?	Kannada	67%
Which of the following is NOT a dialect of Chinese?	Lao	64%
What does the Arabic phrase “assalamualaikum” mean?	Hello/Peace be unto you	61%
Which of the following is not a dialect of Persian?	Pashto	61%
Of Ethiopia’s five national languages, which is the most spoken?	Amharic	45%
Where is Tamil an official language?	Singapore and Sri Lanka	45%
In which country is French NOT an official language?	Algeria	42%
Which of the following writing systems was NOT found on the Rosetta Stone?	Cuneiform	42%
Which of the following does not mean “goodbye”?	Belo chapéu!	39%
In which country is Spanish NOT an official language?	Mexico	30%
In which country is English NOT an official language?	Australia	24%

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