Here are 15 language trivia questions that will test your knowledge of the world outside of your own home. See if you can answer them.
15 Language Trivia Questions
1. Q: Which language is considered the most spoken native language in the world?
2. Q: What is the only country where Portuguese is the official language in Asia?
3. Q: Which language uses the Cyrillic alphabet?
4. Q: What is the most widely spoken Semitic language in the world?
5. Q: Which language is known for having the longest word in the European Union, with 47 letters?
6. Q: Which country has the most languages spoken within its borders?
7. Q: What is the oldest written language still in use today?
8. Q: Which language is traditionally written from right to left?
9. Q: Which is the only country in the world to have a single-colored flag and speak a language isolate (a language unrelated to any other language)?
10. Q: What is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language?
11. Q: Which language family does English belong to?
12. Q: What is the term for a word that is similar in two or more languages as a result of common descent?
13. Q: Which country is home to the Tamil language, one of the oldest living languages in the world?
14. Q: What language is known for not having any nasal vowel sounds?
15. Q: Which language is classified as a “click language,” known for its clicking sounds used as consonants?
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15 Language Trivia Questions and Answers
1. Q: Which language is considered the most spoken native language in the world? – A: Mandarin Chinese.
2. Q: What is the only country where Portuguese is the official language in Asia? – A: East Timor.
3. Q: Which language uses the Cyrillic alphabet? – A: Russian, among others.
4. Q: What is the most widely spoken Semitic language in the world? – A: Arabic.
5. Q: Which language is known for having the longest word in the European Union, with 47 letters? – A: Welsh. The word is “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.” It is the name of a village in Anglesey, Wales.
6. Q: Which country has the most languages spoken within its borders? – A: Papua New Guinea, with over 800 languages.
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7. Q: What is the oldest written language still in use today? – A: Chinese.
8. Q: Which language is traditionally written from right to left? – A: Hebrew, among others like Arabic.
9. Q: Which is the only country in the world to have a single-colored flag and speak a language isolate (a language unrelated to any other language)? – A: Japan, speaking Japanese.
10. Q: What is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language? – A: Esperanto.
11. Q: Which language family does English belong to? – A: Germanic.
12. Q: What is the term for a word that is similar in two or more languages as a result of common descent? – A: Cognate.
13. Q: Which country is home to the Tamil language, one of the oldest living languages in the world? – A: India, primarily in the state of Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka.
14. Q: What language is known for not having any nasal vowel sounds? – A: Swahili.
15. Q: Which language is classified as a “click language,” known for its clicking sounds used as consonants? – A: Xhosa, spoken primarily in South Africa.
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Julie L. Cleveland 
Interesting quiz. Missed 4 – thought I would miss more. Actually have a photo taken of the train station sign at Lanfair…gogogoch (: Was told there that the “upper” village has an extra couple of letter at the end to designate it is the upper village – the lower village has a different set of letters at the end. Go figure! treats to Harry from Seamus.