Mind-Blowing Linguistic Facts Quiz


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Put your language skills to the test with this incredible quiz filled with fascinating linguistic facts. Can you score a perfect 20 out of 20?

Put your language skills to the test with this incredible quiz filled with fascinating linguistic facts. Can you score a perfect 20 out of 20?

1. How many known languages are there in the world?

7,117
5,432
8,500
10,000

2. Which city is the most linguistically diverse in the world?

Tokyo
New York City
London
Shanghai

3. How many languages does Papua New Guinea have?

500
650
840
960

4. What language has only 12 letters?

Hawaiian
Rotokas
Fijian
Tahitian

5. Which language has no words to express time?

Hopi
Mandarin
Zulu
Swahili

6. Which language has 200 words for rain?

English
Hawaiian
Inuktitut
Swedish

7. What is the oldest living language in Europe?

Latin
Greek
Icelandic
Basque

8. Which language has the most consonants of any language?

Mandarin
Xhosa
Khmer
Georgian

9. When was the last language to go extinct?

May 5, 2023
January 1, 2021
December 31, 2022
August 15, 2020

10. What is the native language of the first man in outer space, Yuri Gagarin?

English
German
Russian
French

11. How many whistle languages are there in the world?

30
50
70
90

12. Which language has three different ways of writing?

Arabic
Japanese
Greek
Russian

13. What is the first language ever written?

Latin
Egyptian
Sumerian
Greek

14. How many words does the Taki-Taki language have?

340
500
700
1000

15. Which language flips the concepts of past and future around?

French
Aymara
Japanese
Hopi

16. Which artificial language was declared official on May 8, 1925?

Elvish
Afrikaans
Klingon
Esperanto

17. How many native English words does the average speaker know?

10,000-15,000
15,000-20,000
20,000-30,000
30,000-40,000

18. What language only has cardinal direction words?

Navajo
Kuuk Thaayorre
Hindi
Zulu

19. What language stops vocabulary growth at middle age?

English
Spanish
German
French

20. How many bilingual people are estimated to be in the world?

10%
25%
50%
75%