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Linguistic General Knowledge - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 1,099 times
- The average score is 11 of 15
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What type of language is primarily used in deaf communities? | Sign language | 94%
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| What are "you", "we", and "they"? | Personal pronouns | 92%
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| What do you call a person who speaks multiple languages? | Polyglot | 89%
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| What do you call a word that qualifies or describes a noun? | Adjective | 85%
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| What was the lingua franca of science until the early 19th century? | Latin | 83%
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| What is the fourth official language of Switzerland besides German, French and Romansh? | Italian | 77%
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| What do numerals denote? | Numbers | 74%
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| What is the study of history of words and their origins called? | Etymology | 72%
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| What do SVO and SOV refer to? | Word order | 64%
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| What does IPA mean in the field of linguistics? | International Phonetic Alphabet or International Phonetic Association | 62%
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| What is the official language of Cambodia? | Khmer | 61%
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| What language was Beowulf first written in? | Old English | 60%
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| What island country is called the linguistically most diverse country in the world with over 830 languages spoken there? | Papua New Guinea | 58%
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| What do you call a language that is related to no other language? | Language isolate | 55%
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| Which branch of the Afroasiatic language family does Arabic belong to? | Semitic | 47%
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