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Languages - True or False?
Guess if the following statements regarding different languages of the world are true or false.
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Last updated: January 1, 2022
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1.
Papua New Guinea has over 7,000 native languages, the largest number in the world
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Although it is true that PNG has the greatest language diversity, it is 'only' around 800 languages; around 6,500 languages are spoken in the world.
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In English, the word 'girl' used to mean just "child" regardless of the gender.
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That was until the late 1400s, meaning young unmarried woman since about 1530
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Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian are regional varieties of the same language, with a high level of mutual intelligibility.
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Latvian and Lithuanian are both Baltic language, but are not intelligible. Estonian is an Uralic language, closer to Finnish or Hungarian.
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Korean is a relatively new language, being almost indistinguishable from Japanese until the mid 1700s.
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Old Korean dates back to at least year 600 AD.
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German is the second most spoken language in at least one state of the US.
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In North Dakota, German is more widely spoken than Spanish.
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An average Chinese person will know around 30,000 Chinese characters when finishing high school.
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Dictionaries may list up to 20,000, but an educated person would know around 8,000 with only 2,000-3,000 used in common language.
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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.
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It is Japanese and it means 'harbour wave'.
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Although there are around 100 million of speakers of Swahili, native speakers are only around 20 million.
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Swahili is considered a lingua franca in East and South Africa.
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English has been the native language of all the US presidents so far.
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Martin van Buren's first language was Dutch.
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Kazakhstan is currently in the process of switching from cyrillic to latin alphabet.
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Announced in 2017, the transition is expected to be finished by 2025.
11.
Maltese language is derived from Arabic, being the only Semitic official language of the European Union.
True
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False
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12.
The letter 'ñ', typically linked to Spanish, is also found in another languages such as Guarani, Quechua or Filipino.
True
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False
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13.
Irish is the domestic language of around 70% of the population of the Republic of Ireland.
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False
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Studies show that around 40% of Irish people can actually speak it, but only a small % use it as their main domestic language,
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In the 90s, a linguist tried to raise his son as the first native speaker of Klingon.
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Dr d'Armond Speers failed as his son stopped speaking Klingon when he got older.
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Vietnamese is a recognized minority language in the Czech Republic.
True
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False
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So are Greek, Slovak, Romani or Polish, among others.
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ld 'girl'"There is one answer that is probably incorrect, unfortunately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota#Languages
In 2010, German speakers outnumbered Spanish speakers in North Dakota by only about 150 people. Due to changing demographics, its almost certain there are more Spanish speakers now.