How many languages do you speak? (Yes, Prof, Yorkshire counts.) How much do you know about the world's languages? It's time to take. . .

1. Name the five most-spoken languages of the world in decreasing order of their number of speakers.

2. Ah, but are they on the web? Name the top five internet languages in decreasing order of use.

3. What country leads the world in number of languages spoken?

4. What is the oldest written language (that can still be read)?

5. Let's get all provincial and Eurocentric. What's the oldest spoken language in Europe?

6. Just how many languages are there in the world?

7. What's the world's record for language learning? (We know how competitive you are.)

8. Speaking of learning languages, who first figured out that all the Indo-European languages were related, and what was he smoking doing at the time?

9. Can you name all the Romance languages?

10. If you're reading this, one language you know is English. Just how old is English, anyway?

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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