Attention! Attention! We have a quiz with prizes!

September 26 – European Day of Languages

The celebration involves 47 countries in the world;
The first European Day Of Languages was held in the European Year of Languages in 2001;
It is the celebration of all languages, not only European ones (There are more than 6000 languages in the world);
Every language = rich culture, we are all different – that is what we celebrate!

Fill in the questionnaire on 26^th of September and win the prize!

Please send the answers to our e-mail: ls.indowntown@gmail.com 

Don't forget to mention your name and number of the group!

The results will be announced on 29^th of September 2014 in our blog.

Here are the questions:

Quiz

1.   Question: How many languages are estimated to be indigenous to Europe?

a)        100-200

b)       200-300

c)        300-400        

2.   Question: How many living languages are there estimated in the world?

a)      around 500

b)     around 2000

c)      around 6000

3.   Question: Which is the most widely spoken language in the world?

a)      Chinese         

b)     English

c)      Spanish         

4.   Question: What proportion of all languages in the world are African languages?

a)      approx. one third of all languages

b)     approx. half of all languages

c)      approx. one fifth of all languages

d)     approx. ten percent of all languages        

5.   Question: Which of the following languages are written from right to left?(2 answers)

a)      Hebrew         

b)     Maltese

c)      Japanese

d)     Arabic

6.   Question: Which of the following languages is considered to be the oldest language still used in Europe?

a)      Galician         

b)     Basque

c)      Icelandic

d)     Greek

d)

7.   Question: In which of the following countries is German an official language? (few answers)

a)      Liechtenstein

b)     Switzerland

c)      Austria

d)     Belgium

e)      Luxembourg

8.   Question: Which are the two varieties of standard modern Norwegian?(2 answers)

a)      Nynorsk

b)     Norse

c)      Faroese         

d)     Bokmål         

9.   Question: The official language of Azerbaijan is called?

a)      Azerbaijanian

b)     Azerbaigianic

c)      Azerban

d)     Azeri

10.             Question: Where is Aleut spoken?(2 answers)

a)      Alaska

b)     Siberia           

c)      Norway         

d)     Greenland

11.             Question: In which country is the language Cymraeg spoken?

a)      Ireland          

b)     Scotland

c)      Wales

d)     Faroe Islands

d)

12. Question: What is the Albanian language called in Albanian?
a)      Albanski
b)     Albani
c)      Shqip