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Statistics for Languages - True or False?

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  • This quiz has been taken 1,390 times
    (1,362 since last reset)
  • The average score is 10 of 15

Answer Stats

QuestionAnswer% Correct
In the 90s, a linguist tried to raise his son as the first native speaker of Klingon.True
88%
The letter 'ñ', typically linked to Spanish, is also found in another languages such as Guarani, Quechua or Filipino.True
83%
Irish is the domestic language of around 70% of the population of the Republic of Ireland.False
82%
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
77%
Although there are around 100 million of speakers of Swahili, native speakers are only around 20 million.True
77%
German is the second most spoken language in at least one state of the US.True
74%
Maltese language is derived from Arabic, being the only Semitic official language of the European Union.True
74%
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian are regional varieties of the same language, with a high level of mutual intelligibility.False
69%
Kazakhstan is currently in the process of switching from cyrillic to latin alphabet.True
69%
English has been the native language of all the US presidents so far.False
66%
Korean is a relatively new language, being almost indistinguishable from Japanese until the mid 1700s.False
60%
Vietnamese is a recognized minority language in the Czech Republic.True
49%
In English, the word 'girl' used to mean just "child" regardless of the gender.True
37%
An average Chinese person will know around 30,000 Chinese characters when finishing high school.False
33%
Papua New Guinea has over 7,000 native languages, the largest number in the worldFalse
25%

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