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Where Do They Speak THAT? Trivia Quiz


A quiz about the places that languages come from. Not where some people speak them, so I'm not counting your cousin in Burbank who speaks Fulani...

A multiple-choice quiz by baloo55th. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
baloo55th
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
194,106
Updated
Sep 02 24
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
12 / 20
Plays
719
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Question 1 of 20
1. Where does the language Luri come from? Hint


Question 2 of 20
2. The language Sorbian is spoken in parts of which country? Hint


Question 3 of 20
3. The language Ganda is one of those found in which country? Hint


Question 4 of 20
4. The language Tamazight can be found in one of these places. Hint


Question 5 of 20
5. The language (not the cow!) Frisian comes from one of these pairs of places. Hint


Question 6 of 20
6. You will find speakers of Bugis (if you go there, that is) in one of these places. Hint


Question 7 of 20
7. The name of the language Aromunian looks like an anagram of another language. But where does it come from? Hint


Question 8 of 20
8. Sami (the language, but there is a people called this too) is found somewhere. Your task is to decide where. Hint


Question 9 of 20
9. Papiamentu sounds like it is something to be cooked, but it is a language. Where is it spoken? Hint


Question 10 of 20
10. The language Occitan comes from which place? Hint


Question 11 of 20
11. If you find yourself surrounded by speakers of Kumyk, where will you be? Hint


Question 12 of 20
12. The language Divehi comes from which place? Hint


Question 13 of 20
13. The language known as Afar comes from somewhere that I will give you a clue to. Think of a connection between the Beatles and paleoanthropology. Hint


Question 14 of 20
14. The language Tonga comes from which of these locations? Hint


Question 15 of 20
15. Where is Urdu spoken? Hint


Question 16 of 20
16. Pampangan is a language which comes from where? Hint


Question 17 of 20
17. Malagasy (as a language) comes from which of the following countries? Hint


Question 18 of 20
18. Where does the language Kannada come from? Hint


Question 19 of 20
19. Where is Dzongkha spoken? Hint


Question 20 of 20
20. Where would you find the Uighur language? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Where does the language Luri come from?

Answer: Iran

Luristan is in South West Iran, and the Luri language is part of the Iranian branch of the vast Indo-European family.
2. The language Sorbian is spoken in parts of which country?

Answer: Germany

Called by the Germans Wendisch. The speakers call themselves Serbja - the same as the Serbia (where they speak Serbian) in the old Yugoslavia (which Slovenia used to be part of, but they speak Slovene there anyway, and they call it Slovenski). Sorbian is a Slavonic language spoken around Cottbus and Bautzen. Incidentally, Leipzig and Dresden have names that are of Slavonic origin.
3. The language Ganda is one of those found in which country?

Answer: Uganda

TOO obvious? Gander is in Newfoundland, and I'm not aware of a local language named after it. A speaker of luGanda (as it is sometimes called) is likely to be a muGanda, who is one of the baGanda people who live in buGanda (which is called uGanda in Swahili). Got it? I'll be calling to ask questions next week...
4. The language Tamazight can be found in one of these places.

Answer: North west Africa

Don't ask me how to pronounce it. No, please don't... Spoken by about 3 million in Morocco and Algeria. Most of the men who speak it are bilingual in Arabic. Most of the women aren't. That tells me something...
5. The language (not the cow!) Frisian comes from one of these pairs of places.

Answer: Netherlands and Germany

Frisian is the closest relation to English (except for Scots!). It's spoken in Friesland in the Netherlands (of which Holland is just one bit) and on the north east coast of Germany.
6. You will find speakers of Bugis (if you go there, that is) in one of these places.

Answer: Indonesia

Spoken by three and a half million on the island of Sulawesi. (Which is what used to be called Celebes. I wondered for a long time where that had gone.) Has an interesting 'replacement' for you singular (the you that = thou). French and English use the plural you (vous and you) to stand for tu and thou, while German uses Sie (= They with a capital). Bugis uses 'we'. Now come to think of it, so do some nurses... 'Now we're going to drink down this nice medicine, aren't we?'
7. The name of the language Aromunian looks like an anagram of another language. But where does it come from?

Answer: The Balkans

Spoken by not very many people up in the mountains of Greece, Albania and Macedonia. (OK, the Former Yugoslav whatsit.) Gets very complicated in the Balkans, language-wise. Even worse in the Caucasus. Much simpler in the Wirral, where they speak English, with quite a few bilingual in Scouse. Aromunian is a Romance (descended from Latin) language, related to Romanian.
8. Sami (the language, but there is a people called this too) is found somewhere. Your task is to decide where.

Answer: Northern Scandinavia

The Sami were called Finnar in Old Norse. The people we call Finns called them Lapps. The Finns call themselves Suomi - which is a word of Swedish origin. We used to call them Lapps, too, but those of us that like the music of Marie Boine call them Sami. You're wishing you hadn't started this quiz, aren't you....
9. Papiamentu sounds like it is something to be cooked, but it is a language. Where is it spoken?

Answer: The (Dutch) West Indies

It's a creole based on Spanish and Portuguese spoken in some islands that were Dutch colonies largely by people that are of African origins. Some of you may have been influenced by the Pap bit into thinking of the Papal States. You have my sympathy.
10. The language Occitan comes from which place?

Answer: France

Including Provencal and related to Catalan, Occitan is spoken across a wide area of Southern France. Once the language of beautiful poetry and troubadours, it declined until Frederic Mistral gave it a boost. (You sound like a bad guide book, Baloo!) There are Occitan bands, and a movement for at least home rule for Occitania.

A 'Bal Occitan' is something like a ceilidh. Great fun. Been to one. Started at 10 in the evening after we'd performed, and was still going at 1 in the morning when we staggered off to where we were staying. (We were performing again at 10 the next morning!)
11. If you find yourself surrounded by speakers of Kumyk, where will you be?

Answer: The Caucasus

A Turkic language, but from Dagestan in the Russian Federation. Can be spelled Qumuq, which makes it look even more Inuit (Eskimo). Which it isn't. Not even related to it. They speak a lot of languages in Dagestan.
12. The language Divehi comes from which place?

Answer: The Maldives

An Indo-European language related probably to Sinhala (from Sri Lanka). The Maldives are probably the lowest nation in the world. Not morally, the highest point is only about 15 feet above sea level. It's loads of little islands made of coral and sand. Divehi is written in its own script - with some letters pinched from Arabic numbers and others being assorted wiggles.

This seems fairly recent as scripts go - dating from about 1700. Unless you know better?
13. The language known as Afar comes from somewhere that I will give you a clue to. Think of a connection between the Beatles and paleoanthropology.

Answer: Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti

Stamp collectors (and I mean REAL ones - not those who just collect First Day Covers and Unmounted Mint British QE II) will remember K, U and T. It's Tanzania, now, anyway. They may also remember the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. (What a catchy name!) That's now Djibouti. Afar is a Cushitic language. (No, it's NOT what they speak a long way away from here.... I have in previous quizzes issued warnings about the jokes getting worse.) The clue? Lucy was the name given to some bones of Australopithecus afarensis found in Ethiopia because of the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. OK, perhaps it wasn't really helpful. Tough. Baloo doesn't GIVE points away, you know...
14. The language Tonga comes from which of these locations?

Answer: Zambia and Zimbabwe

Now I was kind there. I didn't put Polynesia as a choice. That's Tongan that's spoken IN Tonga. This one is called Tonga and is a Bantu language. Or possibly a Sintu language if you live in South Africa, where the word Bantu has some not very nice connotations. Pity, really. It just means people in a lot of African languages.
15. Where is Urdu spoken?

Answer: India and Pakistan

It's a sort of twin to Hindi - much the same as Croat and Bosnian are to Serbian. Different scripts, but a lot of other stuff the same. Urdu is the official language of Pakistan, but most people there have it as a second language. Many more people speak it in India, as a first language. Confusing? There probably are people in Liverpool who speak Urdu but it doesn't belong there like it does in India and Pakistan.

In Liverpool if you want an Urdu you go to the Ur Dresser and get yer Ur Dun (or even maybe Did).
16. Pampangan is a language which comes from where?

Answer: The Philippines

Sounds like something from the Magic Flute. (No, that was Papageno!) Nothing to do with the Pampas, sorry. No, I'm not. It's an Austronesian language spoken in (surprise!) Pampanga in Luzon.
17. Malagasy (as a language) comes from which of the following countries?

Answer: Madagascar

Strange place for a language related to an obscure bunch of languages from Borneo! There are other things spoken there as well, but Malagasy is the main one and the official language of Madagascar.
18. Where does the language Kannada come from?

Answer: Southern India

No, it's not where the name Canada comes from! No connection at all. It's the language of Karnataka in India, which used to be known to the British as The Carnatic. Liverpool University has a load of Halls of Residence called Carnatic Halls. Which you probably didn't want to know, unless you're thinking of going there. Kannada is a Dravidian language, it's related to Telugu.
19. Where is Dzongkha spoken?

Answer: Bhutan

That's Euskara from the Basque area. A relation of Tibetan, Dzongkha has been set up as a national language for Bhutan. (Where? A little country between India and Tibet up in the Himalayas.) There's a lot of languages and dialects in Bhutan because of the deep valleys. Deep valleys mean high hills, and that means you can communicate up and down but not side to side. So they use Dzongkha as a standard to overcome this problem.

A bit like Urdu in Pakistan. Or English for the whole world...
20. Where would you find the Uighur language?

Answer: China

A Turkic language, formerly of an Empire in the Mongolia region. The only state known to have adopted Manichaeism (look it up) as its religion. (Isn't it amazing what you learn in a Baloo quiz - and there's a perfect conversation stopper if you want one - or the ultimate quiz tie-breaker!) Not all the people of China speak Chinese, you know. Well, you did know about Tibetan (didn't you?, but then there's Yi, Buyi, Li, Miao, Naxi and many more.

Including Uighur.
Source: Author baloo55th

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