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Foreign Languages
Can you identify languages or language features? Take the test to find out.
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Category:
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Linguistics
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#1 Other than Japanese, what language uses the katakana alphabet?
Your Answer:
1 word, 4 letters. There is also an alternate answer.
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#2 What language uses the Hangul script?
Vietnamese
Korean
Chinese
Mongolian
Cambodian
#3 Which of the following languages does not use the Cyrillic alphabet?
Russian
Bulgarian
Armenian
Ukrainian
Macedonian
#4 Which of these pairs has two letters (sets of letters) which are pronounced differently?
Hungarian "sz" and Maltese "x"
Polish "c" and German "z"
Spanish "z" and English "th"
Vietnamese "d" and Lithuanian "z"
Czech "w" and Gaelic "mh"
#5 In the Greek alphabet, despite popular belief, which letters do not appear?
S and K
R and L
T and P
B and D
X and M
#6 What language uses the Latin alphabet, plus these modified letters: ċ, ġ, ħ, ż?
Your Answer:
1 word, 7 letters.
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#7 Excluding katakana, how many other writing systems does the Japanese language use?
None, just katakana
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#8 What is katakana mainly used for?
Writing borrowed words and names
Writing words of Chinese origin only
Writing most words of the Japanese language
Just for fun
None of the above
#9 The scripts used for Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac are examples of what type of script?
Alphabet
Syllabary
Syllabic Alphabet
Abjad
#10 Which of these languages is not tone-dependent?
Thai
Vietnamese
Mandarin Chinese
Korean
Cambodian
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