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Quiz about My Disaster Trip with Languages

My Disaster Trip with Languages Quiz

It was a disaster! Please have a look at my diary of a recent trip where these obscure languages are still spoken. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to know only English.

A multiple-choice quiz by exit10. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
exit10

Time
5 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
97,437

Updated
Mar 27 24

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Question 1 of 10

1. Before I left Australia I went to an Aboriginal community in Yuendumu. What language did I find the people speaking there? Hint

Seselwa Creole

Bhojpuri

Comorian

Warlpiri

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Question 2 of 10

2. Wouldn't you know it, only a few hours out of Australia, the pilot had engine trouble. We made an emergency landing on the eastern tip of the island of Timor Lorosae and luckily we were rescued. Unluckily we were thrown in gaol and did not get released until we learnt ______? Hint

Urdu

Fataluku

Papiamentu

Mapudungun

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Question 3 of 10

3. My excursion also took me to Ethiopia and Sudan where there are 134 living languages. Some are spoken in particular parts of the country. During the 1990s, where would you have been most likely to hear the Uduk language being spoken? Hint

Along the Nile

In shops in Khartoum

Anywhere they can see tourists like me coming along

In a refugee camp

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Question 4 of 10

4. I finally caught up with my tour group but I found I had to use sign language. They all spoke Galician, so therefore they must have come mainly from _________. Hint

Spain

Niue

Greece

Equatorial Guinea

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Question 5 of 10

5. While visiting the sites of Genoa, Italy, there was a guided commentary along the Riviera but this was of no use to me because I didn't understand ________. Hint

Neapolitan-Calabrese

Sicilian

Venetian

Ligurian

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Question 6 of 10

6. Being as linguistically challenged as I am, I was not surprised to see the locals looking confused in Turkmenistan when I tried to practice my ________. I should have been speaking _______. Hint

Uzbek and Turkmen

Oirat and English

Uzbek and Oirat

Oirat and Uzbek

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Question 7 of 10

7. Our group stopped in South Korea and I was thrown out with only a phrase book to ask the locals for supplies. By now you will have guessed I was unsuccessful, but I knew the language was definitely Korean. True or False?

True

False

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Question 8 of 10

8. However, when I reached Kalmykia where they do speak Russian, I did manage to learn a few words of another language that is spoken there by the majority of the population. Which language was this? Hint

Oirat

Karelian

Udmurt

Low Mari

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Question 9 of 10

9. A quick stop in China, if there is such a thing, revealed 202 living languages. Far too many for me to learn but who there would be most likely to speak Waxianghua? Hint

people from the Yunnan-Tibet border

people from central and south-central Hainan province

people from Lijian Naxi autonomous county

people from western Hunan province

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Question 10 of 10

10. After having such a disastrous trip I thought I should visit The Vatican with my confession and ask for absolution. After all, I still remembered all my high school Latin. My only query was, that although it is not spoken anywhere else in the world, would it be commonly spoken here?

Yes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Before I left Australia I went to an Aboriginal community in Yuendumu. What language did I find the people speaking there?

Answer: Warlpiri

Although this language is strong by Australian standards, the world standard of approximately 50,000 or under constitutes an endangered language. At the time of white settlement in Australia there were 200 Australian languages and now 160 are totally extinct. The other languages mentioned are from Africa.

Answer: Fataluku

The official language of Timor is Portuguese, but there are a number of languages spoken in various locations on the island. Maybe it's their way of preserving the language. Urdu is spoken in Pakistan and other countries, Papiamentu is spoken in the Netherlands Antilles and Mapundungun is spoken in Chile.

Answer: In a refugee camp

The Uduk people (of whom there were around 20,000 in 2005) are native to an area of Sudan near the border with Ethiopia. During the long civil war in the region that lasted from around 1983 - 2005, most of them fled to a refugee camp at Bonga in Ethiopia, located near Gambela town on the Sudan-Ethiopia border.

4. I finally caught up with my tour group but I found I had to use sign language. They all spoke Galician, so therefore they must have come mainly from _________.

Answer: Spain

Galician is mainly spoken in Northwest Spain however it is also spoken in Portugal. There are approximately 3,000,000 speakers.

5. While visiting the sites of Genoa, Italy, there was a guided commentary along the Riviera but this was of no use to me because I didn't understand ________.

Answer: Ligurian

Liguria is an area in northern Italy. The language is spoken in and around Genoa, the Riviera and on some islands in the Mediterranean near Sardinia. Neapolitan-Calabrese is predominantly spoken in the Campania and Calabria provinces in southern Italy. Venetian is mainly spoken in Venice and in the area bounded by Verona, the river Po and the Fruili border. Sicilian is of course spoken mainly in Sicily.

6. Being as linguistically challenged as I am, I was not surprised to see the locals looking confused in Turkmenistan when I tried to practice my ________. I should have been speaking _______.

Answer: Uzbek and Turkmen

Alas! I was speaking the wrong language altogether. Turkmen/Turkish is the national language of Turkmenistan and is spoken by 99 percent of the population. Russian is also understood by the majority of the population as well. There is also another language, Western Balochi and it has approximately 25,000 speakers.

Answer: True

There are no other indigenous languages spoken in either North or South Korea.

Answer: Oirat

This is actually true! Also known as Kalmyk-Oirat I learnt how to ask for toilet rolls. I was also told that they import their bananas from Kenya! To this day I do not know if this was a translation problem. Kalmykia is also the only Buddhist republic in Europe.

The others are also Russian languages but are only spoken north of Moscow. Kalmykia is located near Astrakhan near the Caspian Sea.

9. A quick stop in China, if there is such a thing, revealed 202 living languages. Far too many for me to learn but who there would be most likely to speak Waxianghua?

Answer: people from western Hunan province

Waxianghua is spoken by 300,000 people in a 6000 square kilometre radius in western Hunan province and the Wuling Mountains. One of the languages spoken in the Yunnan-Tibet border area is Atuence (520,000 speakers), the language of Lijian Naxi is Naxi (278,000) and one of the languages of Hainan is Hlai (747,000).

Answer: No

Latin is an extinct language. Once the last speaker dies it becomes 'dead'. This is very different than knowing some words of a language. Although there are some scripts in The Vatican printed in Latin and there have been programs developed to try and revive the language, the most commonly encountered language in The Vatican is still Italian.

Source: Author exit10

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