Mind-Blowing Linguistic Facts Quiz
Anonymous User
Created 6/18/2024
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?
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?
4. What language has only 12 letters?
Hawaiian
Rotokas
Fijian
Tahitian
5. Which language has no words to express time?
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?
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?
15. Which language flips the concepts of past and future around?
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?
