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Languages - True or False? - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 1,663 times
1,635 since last reset
- The average score is 10 of 15
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| In the 90s, a linguist tried to raise his son as the first native speaker of Klingon. | True | 86%
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| The word 'tsunami' isn't an actual Japanese word: it was invented during WWII by American soldiers and after that it was adopted into the general language. | False | 79%
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| Irish is the domestic language of around 70% of the population of the Republic of Ireland. | False | 79%
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| Maltese language is derived from Arabic, being the only Semitic official language of the European Union. | True | 79%
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| The letter 'ñ', typically linked to Spanish, is also found in another languages such as Guarani, Quechua or Filipino. | True | 78%
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| German is the second most spoken language in at least one state of the US. | True | 77%
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| Although there are around 100 million of speakers of Swahili, native speakers are only around 20 million. | True | 75%
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| Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian are regional varieties of the same language, with a high level of mutual intelligibility. | False | 74%
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| Kazakhstan is currently in the process of switching from cyrillic to latin alphabet. | True | 67%
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| English has been the native language of all the US presidents so far. | False | 63%
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| Korean is a relatively new language, being almost indistinguishable from Japanese until the mid 1700s. | False | 62%
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| In English, the word 'girl' used to mean just "child" regardless of the gender. | True | 42%
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| Vietnamese is a recognized minority language in the Czech Republic. | True | 42%
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| An average Chinese person will know around 30,000 Chinese characters when finishing high school. | False | 34%
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| Papua New Guinea has over 7,000 native languages, the largest number in the world | False | 27%
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