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1
Which is the oldest language still spoken in Europe?
Galician (Spain)
Icelandic
Greek
Basque (Spain)
2
Which European language gave us the words
cookie, nitwit, sleigh?
Dutch
Czech
Polish
Norwegian
3
How many languages are spoken in Europe?
200-300
Fewer than 100
100-200
1,000+
4
What percentage of British employers say that they value language skills in their employees?
20%
50%
70%
30%
5
What % of the world's population lives in a country where English is not the mother tongue?
30%
90%
75%
50%
6
What proportion of all languages in the world are African languages?
1/2
1/5
1/10
1/3
7
What percentage of the world's population are bilingual or plurilingual?
50%
25%
33%
10%
8
Most of the world's languages are spoken in...
Europe
Asia and Africa
North America
South America
9
How many languages are spoken around the world?
More than 6,000
About 4,000
About 2,000
About 500
10
What percentage of British trade is with non-English speaking countries?
50%
30%
over 60%
less than 10%
11
Which is the country with the highest number of languages spoken on its territory?
Germany
China
Russia
Norway
12
How many words does the active vocabulary of the average person contain?
50,000
9,000
150,000
30,000
13
Which of the following languages are written from right to left?
Hebrew
Maltese
Arabic
Japanese
14
In which of these countries is German an official language?
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
15
The language of Azerbaijan is called...
Azerbaiganiac
Azerban
Azeri
Azerbaijanian
16
Excluding Russian, what language is the mother tongue of the greatest percentage of Europeans?
Spanish
French
English
German
17
By the age of 21, it is estimated you will have spoken approximately how many words?
500 million
1 million
5 million
50 million
18
In which country is the language Cymraeg spoken?
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Ireland