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International Mother Language Day 2023
International Mother Language Day 2023
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Test your knowledge of world languages, linguistic diversity, and multilingualism!
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1
About what percentage of languages are endangered?
60
40
20
80
2
True or False? More than half of the world's languages have no written form.
False
True
3
Approximately how many languages are spoken in the world today?
70
700
7,000
70,000
4
The country with the most spoken languages in the world is ____________________.
The United States
China
Indonesia
India
Papua New Guinea
Nigeria
5
Around how many languages are spoken in the United States today?
300
50
700
1,000
6
What is the oldest living language in the world?
Basque
Tamil
Hebrew
Arabic
7
True or False? Most people who speak more than one language learn their second and third languages in school.
False
True
8
Listen to the audio recording. What language is this?
Mongolian
Kazakh
Korean
Inuktitut
9
Listen to the audio recording. What language is this?
Hausa
Kiswahili (Swahili)
Igbo
Yoruba
10
True or False? Most people in the world are monolingual; that is, they only know how to speak one language.
True
False
11
How many people in the world use signed language(s) as their primary means of communication?
70,000
700,000
70 million
7 million
12
What percent of the world's languages are expected to disappear during this century?
25%
1%
50%
5%
13
True or False? Signed languages are signed versions of spoken languages.
True
False
14
Which of the following three languages are indigenous languages of Oakland County? (Choose three.)
K'iche'
Cree
Ojibwemowin (Ojibwe)
Potawatami
Tohono Oʼodham
Odawa (Ottawa)
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This text translates to “hello” in which language?
Korean
Japanese
Vietnamese
Chinese
