European Languages Trivia Quiz

Answer: Finland

Finland and Sweden are bordering countries so about 5.6% of Finnish population speaks Swedish. Those languages are different. Finnish belongs in the Uralic language family, together with Hungarian and Estonian, which is somewhat similar to it. Swedish is in the Indo-European language family.

Answer: San Marino

Both San Marino and Vatican City are Italian speaking landlocked countries. San Marino was founded in 301, and it has the world's oldest constitution dating back to 1600.

Answer: Andorra

Andorra is a landlocked country between France and Spain. It is a tourist country in the Pyrenees. Catalan is also spoken in a part of Spain, which is bigger and bordered by both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Answer: Monaco

Monaco has only one official language and it is French, although a Monegasque dialect, which sounds like a mixture of French and Italian, is somewhat used. Actually, this country is the world's smallest French-speaking country.

Answer: Belgium

The Flanders region on the north of Belgium is the home of the Dutch speaking people, whereas the Wallonia is in the south and there are mostly French speakers. Only about 1% of the population speaks German.

Answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina

There are three ethnic constituent peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the Bosniaks, the Serbs and the Croats. They have their languages which are very similar.

Answer: Malta

The majority in Malta are the native Maltese and the minority are British and they mostly retire there. Before it was replaced by English in 1934, Italian was the second language in Malta.

Answer: Luxembourg

Luxembourgish is a language which is officially used in Luxembourgh since 1984. Today it has about 390.000 speakers. It is very similar to German with French expressions. German is taught in schools and spoken in the media and the church, whereas French is used in business.

Answer: Switzerland

A bit more than 60% of Swiss population speaks German, about 20% French, 6% Italian and about 0,5% of Swiss people speak Romansh. The federal government in Switzerland is obliged to communicate in these official languages.

Answer: Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein is surrounded by two German-speaking countries, Austria and Switzerland, and very close to Germany. One third of the population is foreign-born so no wonder German is the official language.