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Very Easy Languages Trivia Questions

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1.) What is the official language of Spain?

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish

2.) What is the official language in Brazil?

  • English
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

3.) In what country is the language Hindi predominantly spoken?

  • Bangladesh
  • India
  • Nepal
  • Pakistan

4.) What language is primarily spoken in China?

  • Arabic
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Mandarin Chinese

5.) What is the main language spoken in Italy?

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

6.) What language do people in Japan mainly speak?

  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Mandarin
  • Vietnamese

7.) Which language is primarily spoken in Germany?

  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Swedish

8.) What language is mainly spoken in France?

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish

9.) What is the primary language spoken in Russia?

  • Czech
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian

10.) What language is mostly spoken in South Korea?

  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Mandarin
  • Vietnamese

11.) What language do people primarily speak in Mexico?

  • French
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

12.) What language is predominantly spoken in Greece?

  • French
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Turkish

13.) What language do most people in Turkey speak?

  • Arabic
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Turkish

14.) What is the primary language in Iran?

  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • Kurdish
  • Persian

15.) What language do most people speak in Thailand?

  • Khmer
  • Laotian
  • Thai
  • Vietnamese

16.) What language is mainly spoken in Poland?

  • Czech
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian

17.) In what country is the language Swedish predominantly spoken?

  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Norway
  • Sweden

18.) What language is traditionally spoken in Italy?

  • French
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

19.) In which language is 'Bonjour' a common greeting?

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish

20.) In what language do people primarily speak in France?

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish

21.) Which language is primarily spoken in Italy?

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish

22.) What is the primary language spoken in Germany?

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish

23.) What language do people primarily communicate in Japan?

  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Thai

24.) Which language is widely spoken in Russia?

  • Finnish
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian

25.) Which language is primarily spoken in Greece?

  • Bulgarian
  • Greek
  • Romanian
  • Turkish

Easy Languages Trivia Questions

These Languages trivia questions are perfect for kids in elementary school. If you want to play Languages trivia with schoolchildren, try these easy difficulty questions to get started.

26.) In which country is Arabic the official language?

  • Brazil
  • Germany
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Turkey

27.) Which language is primarily spoken in the United Kingdom?

  • English
  • Irish
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Welsh

28.) What is the most commonly spoken language in Egypt?

  • Arabic
  • French
  • Hebrew
  • Italian

29.) What is the main language spoken in Portugal?

  • French
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

30.) Which official language of South Africa is known for its use of click sounds?

  • Afrikaans
  • English
  • Xhosa
  • Zulu

31.) What language is spoken in the Netherlands?

  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • German
  • Swedish

32.) What is the most spoken language in Israel?

  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • English
  • Hebrew

33.) What is the official language of Egypt?

  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • French
  • Turkish

34.) Which language is primarily spoken in Brazil?

  • French
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

35.) What is the official language of Japan?

  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Mandarin
  • Thai

36.) Which language uses the Cyrillic alphabet?

  • Arabic
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Russian

37.) Which language family does the Hindi language belong to?

  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Indo-European
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Uralic

38.) What is the official language of Egypt?

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

39.) Which language is spoken in Greece?

  • Bulgarian
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Turkish

40.) Which language is the official language of the Netherlands?

  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German

41.) What language is primarily spoken in Mexico?

  • English
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

42.) Which language is primarily spoken in Thailand?

  • Burmese
  • Khmer
  • Thai
  • Vietnamese

43.) What is the official language of Iran?

  • Arabic
  • Kurdish
  • Persian
  • Turkish

44.) In which country is Swahili widely spoken?

  • Egypt
  • Kenya
  • Morocco
  • Zimbabwe

45.) Which language is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu, a state in the southern part of India?

  • Bengali
  • Hindi
  • Punjabi
  • Tamil

46.) Which language uses both Kanji and Kana scripts?

  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Thai

47.) What is the national language of Argentina?

  • English
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

48.) Which language is spoken by most people in Saudi Arabia?

  • Arabic
  • English
  • Hebrew
  • Turkish

49.) Which language is majorly spoken in the province of Quebec in Canada?

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish

50.) Which language is official in Switzerland along with German and Italian?

  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Medium Languages Trivia Questions

These Languages trivia questions are perfect for older kids, teenagers, and adults. If you want to play Languages trivia with friends and family, try these medium difficulty questions

51.) What are the official languages spoken in Belgium?

  • Dutch, French, German
  • Dutch, French, Spanish
  • Dutch, German, English
  • French, German, Spanish

52.) What is the study of the structure and formation of words known as in linguistics?

  • Morphology
  • Phonetics
  • Semantics
  • Syntax

53.) In which language do words not change their forms for tense, number, or gender, but rather rely on strict word order for meaning?

  • Chinese
  • Hindi
  • Italian
  • Latin

54.) What is the writing system called that uses symbols to represent syllables instead of single letters or words?

  • Abjad
  • Alphabet
  • Logographic
  • Syllabary

55.) Which branch of linguistics deals with the study of meaning?

  • Morphology
  • Phonology
  • Semantics
  • Syntax

56.) What term in linguistics refers to the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning between words?

  • Grapheme
  • Morpheme
  • Phoneme
  • Syllable

57.) Which language is primarily used in the WhatsApp Cassubian Community?

  • Kashubian
  • Polish
  • Serbian
  • Slovak

58.) The process by which one language borrows words from another is known as what?

  • Disambiguation
  • Holophrasis
  • Loanword acquisition
  • Phonological assimilation

59.) What is the constructed international auxiliary language with a vocabulary based on European languages called?

  • Esperanto
  • Ido
  • Interlingua
  • Volapük

60.) Which creole language developed in the Caribbean due to French colonization?

  • Haitian Creole
  • Jamaican Patois
  • Papamiento
  • Sranan Tongo

61.) What linguistic term describes a language that uses several pitch levels to distinguish words?

  • Analytic language
  • Fusional language
  • Synthetic language
  • Tonal language

62.) Which language is known for having the most cases in its grammatical structure among European languages?

  • Finnish
  • Hungarian
  • Latin
  • Russian

63.) What is the branch of linguistics that studies how the context of utterance affects meaning?

  • Morphology
  • Pragmatics
  • Semantics
  • Syntax

64.) Which language is recognized for having a non-catenative morphology, where words are formed by applying a pattern of vowels onto the stem?

  • Arabic
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Russian

65.) Which language family does the Welsh language belong to?

  • Celtic
  • Germanic
  • Romance
  • Slavic

66.) Which language uses the Cyrillic script and is the official language of Belarus?

  • Belarusian
  • Bulgarian
  • Macedonian
  • Ukrainian

67.) What term describes the process by which pidgin languages become fully developed languages?

  • Articulation
  • Conversion
  • Creolization
  • Linguistic evolution

68.) What language was spoken in England from approximately 450 AD to 1150 AD?

  • Anglo-Saxon
  • Early Modern English
  • Middle English
  • Old English

69.) Which language is the official language of Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania?

  • Amharic
  • Somali
  • Swahili
  • Zulu

70.) Which Japanese script is used primarily for native Japanese words not covered by Kanji?

  • Hiragana
  • Kanji
  • Katakana
  • Romaji

71.) What is the primary language spoken in the pyrenean region of Europe that is not related to any other known language group?

  • Basque
  • Catalan
  • Galician
  • Occitan

72.) What is the isolated language spoken in the Basque Country of Spain and France, unrelated to any other language?

  • Basque
  • Catalan
  • Galician
  • Occitan

73.) Which language family does the small and largely isolated Albanian language belong to?

  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Altaic
  • Indo-European
  • Uralic

74.) Which ancient language is known for being the liturgical language of Hinduism?

  • Avestan
  • Kurdish
  • Pali
  • Sanskrit

75.) What is the name of the Norse language that was spoken by the Vikings?

  • Faroese
  • Gothic
  • Old English
  • Old Norse

Hard Languages Trivia Questions

These Languages trivia questions are perfect for teenagers and adults. If you want to play Languages trivia with family and friends, try these hard difficulty questions for a fun challenge.

76.) Which ancient language is thought to be the precursor of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit?

  • Etruscan
  • Phoenician
  • Proto-Indo-European
  • Sumerian

77.) Which language is considered a language isolate, with no known relatives?

  • Basque
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Hungarian

78.) What is the language family of Navajo, a language spoken by indigenous people in the United States?

  • Algonquian
  • Athabaskan
  • Siouan
  • Uto-Aztecan

79.) What is the name of the script used for the ancient Mesopotamian languages such as Sumerian and Akkadian?

  • Cuneiform
  • Hieroglyphics
  • Linear A
  • Phoenician

80.) Which language has influenced Tagalog, resulting in the Filipino language being its modern standard form?

  • Japanese
  • Malay
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

81.) What is the traditional writing system of the Mongolian language still used today in Inner Mongolia?

  • Glagolitic
  • Mongolian script
  • Tri-script
  • Uighur

82.) Which extinct Semitic language was once spoken in the ancient city of Carthage?

  • Eblaite
  • Elamite
  • Punic
  • Ugaritic

83.) In phonetics, what is the term for a sound change where two sounds combine into one?

  • Apheresis
  • Assimilation
  • Coalescence
  • Metathesis

84.) What is the term for the process in linguistics where a new word is formed by removing an affix from an older word, often seen in a reversal of normal word formation?

  • Back-formation
  • Compounding
  • Derivation
  • Reduplication

85.) Which theory in syntax proposes that sentence structures are derived from transformations of deep structures into surface structures?

  • Dependency grammar
  • Generative grammar
  • Lexical-functional grammar
  • Transformational grammar

86.) In the study of languages, what is a verb derived from a noun or an adjective called?

  • Denominal verb
  • Gerund
  • Infinitive
  • Participle

87.) What linguistic phenomenon involves the switching from one dialect or language to another by a speaker within a single conversation, typically as a social strategy?

  • Borrowing
  • Code-switching
  • Diglossia
  • Pidginization

88.) Which reconstructed language is believed to have been spoken by prehistoric people in both Europe and Asia?

  • Ancient Greek
  • Old Norse
  • Proto-Indo-European
  • Sanskrit

89.) What is the term for patterns or variations in speech that occur systematically according to the speaker’s social, geographical, or ethnic background?

  • Morphological discrepancy
  • Phonological augmentation
  • Sociolinguistic variation
  • Syntax shifts

90.) What is the name of the hypothesis which suggests that language actively shapes thought and interpretation of the world, rather than merely describing it?

  • Language acquisition device
  • Linguistic relativity hypothesis
  • Transformational-generative grammar
  • Universal grammar theory

91.) In grammar, what is the term for a verb form that is not limited by subject and is often used to express actions without denoting tense, mood, or aspect?

  • Cognitive verb
  • Ditransitive verb
  • Ergative verb
  • Non-finite verb

92.) What linguistic concept in phonology involves the use of pitch to distinguish the semantic meaning between words, such as in tonal languages?

  • Accent
  • Intonation
  • Stress
  • Tone

93.) In linguistics, what theory suggests that language ability is innate to humans?

  • Cultural transmission
  • Innateness hypothesis
  • Mimetic theory
  • Sociocultural evolution

94.) What is the term for a hypothetical language proposed to have given rise to several modern languages through a process of divergence?

  • Creole
  • Proto-language
  • Substrate
  • Superstrate

95.) In semantics, what is the term for the relation between words that appear to mean the same thing but have differences in usage or connotation?

  • Antonyms
  • Homonyms
  • Near-synonyms
  • Polysemes

96.) What term describes the features such as intonation and stress that affect how phonemes are perceived in different languages?

  • Consonant gradation
  • Phonotactics
  • Prosodic features
  • Vocal fry

97.) In psycholinguistics, which construct refers to the unconscious knowledge that allows speakers to understand and produce sentences in a language?

  • Competence
  • Lexicon
  • Performance
  • Pragmatics

98.) What theory in linguistics explains the hierarchical organization of syntactic structures and allows for elements to be reordered within a sentence?

  • Generative semantics
  • Head-driven phrase structure grammar
  • Lexical functional grammar
  • Transformational grammar

99.) Which language has the most extensive consonant inventory among known natural languages?

  • Hindi
  • Korean
  • Ubykh
  • Zulu

100.) In the International Phonetic Alphabet, what does the symbol 'ʃ' represent?

  • Voiced dental fricative
  • Voiceless bilabial plosive
  • Voiceless postalveolar fricative
  • Voiceless velar fricative

Very Hard Languages Trivia Questions

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101.) What is the hypothetical language believed to have been spoken by the Philistines?

  • Akkadian
  • Aramaic
  • Philistine language
  • Phoenician

102.) In historical linguistics, which proposed language family groups together languages such as Basque, Etruscan, and Sumerian, though its existence is highly controversial?

  • Altaic
  • Indo-Hittite
  • Ural-Altaic
  • Vasco-Caucasian

103.) What is the rare grammatical gender found in Swahili, known in the Bantu group, which is used for abstract concepts and certain spatial expressions?

  • Augmentative
  • Class 17
  • Dual
  • Neuter

104.) The linguistic theory proposing that human language abilities are influenced by universal cognitive processes and constraint interaction is commonly referred to as what?

  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Optimality Theory
  • Pragmatics
  • Universal Grammar

105.) What is the language isolate spoken by an indigenous population in the Andean regions of Colombia, known for its lack of relation to other languages?

  • Aymara
  • Barasana
  • Mapudungun
  • Quechua

106.) In the field of sociolinguistics, what is the term for the change in a speaker's use of the same language, influenced by different social contexts, settings, or audiences?

  • Bilingualism
  • Code-mixing
  • Register
  • Style-shifting

107.) What are morphemes called that cannot stand alone but modify other grammatical structures in linguistic theory?

  • Affixes
  • Clitics
  • Infinitives
  • Inflections

108.) In linguistics, what is the term describing the use of one language variety over another due to perceived prestige or social functions, differing in spoken and written mediums?

  • Diglossia
  • Lingua Franca
  • Multilingualism
  • Pig Latin

109.) Within transformational grammar, what is the term for an abstract representation of the syntactic structure of a sentence, underlying the surface structure?

  • Affine structure
  • Auxiliary structure
  • Catenative structure
  • Deep structure

110.) Within the field of descriptive linguistics, what is the term for the original form of a word as listed in a dictionary to which inflections or derivations are added?

  • Lemma
  • Morpheme
  • Phoneme
  • Root

111.) Which indigenous Mexican language is known for its extensive use of tones, with more than ten tones used to distinguish meaning?

  • Cantonese
  • Japanese
  • Mazatec
  • Navajo

112.) In which indigenous language family is polysynthesis, characterized by combining multiple morphemes into single complex words, most prevalent?

  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Austronesian
  • Indo-European
  • Inuit-Yupik

113.) Which extinct language, once spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, is known for its undecipherable inscriptions except for basic numerical systems?

  • Dalmatian
  • Gothic
  • Punic
  • Tartessian

114.) What ancient Iranian language, associated with the Medes, remains largely unclassified due to its limited surviving texts?

  • Elamite
  • Etruscan
  • Hittite
  • Median

115.) What linguistic feature involves the use of a defined set of meaningful units (morphemes) being placed together to form complex words, as seen in languages like Mohawk or Inuktitut?

  • Agglutination
  • Derivation
  • Inflection
  • Polysynthesis

116.) Which linguistic process involves the historical reconstruction of languages or dialects by using modern linguistic forms, such as deducing Proto-Indo-European roots?

  • Comparative method
  • Glottochronology
  • Lexical borrowing
  • Semantic broadening

117.) Which ancient Chinese linguistic text, written around the 3rd century BCE, classified words based on sound and provided the earliest known lexical categories?

  • Erya
  • I Ching
  • Shijing
  • Zhou Yi

118.) What morphological term describes the use of a single word that conveys multiple grammatical categories, like tense, number, and mood, simultaneously in inflected languages?

  • Analytic morphology
  • Concurrent morphology
  • Derivational morphology
  • Fusional morphology

119.) Which African language family, known for its use of a 'click' sound, is considered one of the oldest and most internally diverse in the world?

  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Khoisan
  • Niger-Congo
  • Nilotic

120.) What extinct Anatolian language, deciphered from cuneiform texts, is notable as the earliest Indo-European language with written records?

  • Hittite
  • Luwian
  • Phrygian
  • Urartian

121.) Which language's grammar is often cited as an example of radical head-final syntactic structure, used frequently in syntactic typology studies?

  • Arabic
  • Japanese
  • Swahili
  • Thai

122.) Which rare linguistic family, consisting of only a few extant languages on the Andaman Islands, is noted for not having nasal sounds?

  • Dravidian
  • Great Andamanese
  • Proto-Austroasiatic
  • Trans-New Guinea

123.) In which constructed auxiliary language are all words derived from Latin and it was created in the early 1900s by Giuseppe Peano to be logical yet easy to understand?

  • Esperanto
  • Glosolalia
  • Latino sine Flexione
  • Volapük

124.) Which family of languages does Dyrbal, known for its complex case system and ergative structure, belong to?

  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Dravidian
  • Pama-Nyungan
  • Uralic

125.) What is the theoretical language construct associated with Ludwig Wittgenstein's early work that aims to accurately reflect basic concepts of reasoning?

  • Basic English
  • Esperanto
  • Interlingua
  • Logico-philosophical language

127.) In which linguistic tradition is the grammar described as non-configurational, allowing words to be freely reordered without affecting their function in a sentence?

  • Greek
  • Mandarin
  • Spanish
  • Warlpiri

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