Languages Trivia

121. What is the judge of an Islamic court called?

From Quiz Q without U (Oriental Penchant)

Answer: qadi

May also be spelled qazi or kadi, the judge is meant to rule in accordance with Sharia law.

From Quiz In Any Language

Answer: Water

The drink of life is known as "wasser" in German.

From Quiz Where Do They Speak THAT?

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.

From Quiz Official Languages II

Answer: Khmer

If you chose French as your answer it was not a bad guess. Cambodia was under French colonial administration from the late 19th century until 1953. As a result many well-educated Cambodians speak French as their primary foreign language along with the country's official tongue Khmer. Although Vietnam and Laos border Cambodia their respective languages are not widely spoken in the country.

From Quiz Official Languages

Answer: Finnish & Swedish

Finland was under Swedish control for 650 years from the 12th century until 1809. Swedish influence is still relatively high, with the Swedish minority in the country constituting 6.2 % of Finland's population. In fact, some towns in Finland have both Finnish and Swedish names! In far northern Finland, a tiny minority called the Lapps also speak their own language.

From Quiz A Word of Manx

Answer: Hene

'Heose' means 'inverted', 'Hiarn' refers to the Lord, and 'Heerg' is just a nonsense word. Incidentally, the Manx term for 'to defend oneself' is 'hene-coadey'.

From Quiz Sesotho Sa Leboa - Seisimane

Answer: Overcast

'Maru' is the Sesotho sa Leboa term for 'clouds'.

From Quiz Thai Words for Travellers

Answer: orange juice

"Som" is Thai for "orange", as well as being a girl's name. Be careful what you ask for as you might get a surprise ...

From Quiz Country Names in Croatian

Answer: Njemacka

'Nizozemska' means 'the Netherlands'.

From Quiz Languages and Language Origins

Answer: Germanic

English is the "offspring" of mainly Germanic languages, due to the migration of the Angles, Saxons and Norse (Scandinavian) tribes, into the British Isles. It does, however, contain many words from other languages, such as Latin and Greek and of course from French.

From Quiz Strange Languages

Answer: Bhutan

This mountainous kingdom rises to over 7500m. The capital is Thimphu and the country's population was 2,064,000 in 2002. The country did not start a TV service until 1999!

From Quiz Romance Languages

Answer: Spanish

Spanish is in fact the 3rd most spoken language in the world (after Chinese and English). It is spoken in the majority of the South American countries.

From Quiz Romanian Anatomy

Answer: back

"Pieptul" is the chest.

From Quiz Accessible Swahili

Answer: Niger-Congo

Swahili is the most widely spoken language within this language family which is often also referred to as Bantu.

From Quiz World Languages

Answer: Swedish

It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian languages (and some others) that the definite article is placed at the end of the noun.

From Quiz Languages of the World

Answer: 2

These three languages all use a simple open-vs-closed distinction. The vowels they use are roughly equivalent to the English 'a' in 'father' and 'u' in 'halibut'.

From Quiz A World of Languages

Answer: Hebrew

From Quiz Bahasa Indonesia

Answer: Library

From Quiz Guess That Language: Matthew 7:12

Answer: Swedish

From Quiz More Random Language Questions!

Answer: Papua New Guinea

It is called Tok Pisin or 'talk pidgin' and is spoken by over a million people. It is also used on such mediums as newspapers and other reading materials.

From Quiz Random World Languages

Answer: Sedang

Sedang is a language spoken by a minority group in Vietnam. It has 50 vowel sounds.

From Quiz Foreignisms

Answer: Don't make a sound

Literally, it means 'Don't even say peep.'

From Quiz Putting the Cat Among the Pigeons

Answer: Very confused

I have to admit, I love this phrase, which translates as "like a cow standing before a new gate" and is used to describe someone who is very confused. German does have some great animal idioms, including "Das ist ein Katzensprung" meaning "that's a cat's jump", the English equivalent of which would be "it's a stone's throw away" and "Ich glaube, mein Schwein pfeift!", used to express disbelief at a tale, and translating as "I believe my pig is whistling!".

From Quiz Swahili and "The Lion King"

Answer: Gift

In the movie, Nala is the one who finds Simba after he runs away. Her name is appropriate because she (with the help of Rafiki) convinces Simba to return to Pride Rock to claim his place as the rightful king. Happy in Swahili is furaha; love is upendo and peace is amani. (Contributed by Ilona_ritter)

From Quiz The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog

Answer: Irish

Irish is a Celtic language, which is part of the Indo-European family. It has around 170,000 native speakers, with another 2 million or so around the world having it as another language. Originating on the island of Ireland, Irish was the first language of the majority of the Irish population until the 18th century, when English began to subsume it. Irish has traditionally used the Latin alphabet since it was first written down in the 8th century, although the modern Irish alphabet does not include eight letters from the Latin alphabet. Until the mid-20th century, Gaelic script, a form of typeface designed for printing Gaelic languages, was widely used in Ireland, until superseded by modern typefaces. Today, it is largely used for decorative typesetting.

From Quiz Climbing the Tower of Babel, 8th Floor

Answer: sausage

"Kobasica" is the Bosnian and Croatian word for sausage, as is "worst" in Dutch, "saucisse" in French, "Wurst" in German, "loukániko" in Greek, "kielbasa" in Polish and linguiça" in Portuguese. The word sausage found its way into Modern English from the Old North French "saussice" which derived from the Latin "salsica" meaning sausage, which was constructed from the Latin "salsicus" meaning seasoned with salt, which sausage usually is.

From Quiz Mai, Oh Mai

Answer: Those born crazy are never cured

This expression has echoes in English ones such as "A leopard doesn't change his spots" and the "once a _____, always a _____" idiom.

From Quiz Swahili - The Language of the Coast

Answer: Indian Ocean

Though not spoken exclusively in coastal areas, Swahili is the official language of Kenya and Tanzania, both of which border the Indian Ocean. Swahili is also the lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region, which - besides Kenya and Tanzania - includes the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Malawi. In addition, Swahili is taught as an optional language in South Africa, though it is not one of the nation's 11 official languages. It is also the only African language among the official working languages of the African Union. Though only between 5 and 15 million people speak Swahili as their mother tongue, the number of those who speak it as a second language is estimated to be around 130 million.

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