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Question Answer % Correct
In the 90s, a linguist tried to raise his son as the first native speaker of Klingon. True
86%
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%
Irish is the domestic language of around 70% of the population of the Republic of Ireland. False
79%
Maltese language is derived from Arabic, being the only Semitic official language of the European Union. True
79%
The letter 'ñ', typically linked to Spanish, is also found in another languages such as Guarani, Quechua or Filipino. True
78%
German is the second most spoken language in at least one state of the US. True
77%
Although there are around 100 million of speakers of Swahili, native speakers are only around 20 million. True
75%
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian are regional varieties of the same language, with a high level of mutual intelligibility. False
74%
Kazakhstan is currently in the process of switching from cyrillic to latin alphabet. True
67%
English has been the native language of all the US presidents so far. False
63%
Korean is a relatively new language, being almost indistinguishable from Japanese until the mid 1700s. False
62%
In English, the word 'girl' used to mean just "child" regardless of the gender. True
42%
Vietnamese is a recognized minority language in the Czech Republic. True
42%
An average Chinese person will know around 30,000 Chinese characters when finishing high school. False
34%
Papua New Guinea has over 7,000 native languages, the largest number in the world False
27%
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