Words & languages
The “Languages of the world” quiz — Words & languages. It has 25 questions in five categories: Family Trees, Writing Systems, Sound Lab, World Grammar, Language Contact. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which branch of Indo-European does Spanish belong to?
Which language family does Finnish belong to?
Which language family does…
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Which Korean alphabet was created under King Sejong and promulgated in 1446?
What type of writing system is Arabic script when its basic letters chiefly represent consonants?
What is the modern…
In the gameWho created the Cherokee…
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What property of a syllable can distinguish word meanings in Mandarin Chinese?
What process makes a Turkish suffix vowel agree with properties of the preceding vowel?
What kind of consonants…
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In the gameWhat is the basic subject-object-verb order of Japanese?
What is the basic verb-subject-object order of Irish?
What is the process…
In the gameWhat alignment does Basque…
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Which planned language did Ludwik Zamenhof publish in 1887?
Which language is the main lexifier of Haitian Creole?
The name “Swahili” comes…
In the gameWhich Semitic language of…
In the gameWhich mixed Métis language…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.