Language quiz

Question #1: Which of the following languages belong to the group of Celtic languages?

Welsh and Breton belong to the group of Celtic languages.

Question #2: Which of the following languages are considered to be Romance languages?

Romanian, Catalan and Sardinian are Romance languages.

Question #4: Which European language is Afrikaans derived from?

Afrikaans is derived from Dutch.

Question #5: Which of the following languages belong to the group of Germanic languages?

Germanic languages, which belong to the branch of Indo-European languages, generally fall into two groups: West Germanic and North Germanic (also referred to as Scandinavian). North Germanic languages include Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese; languages belonging to the West Germanic group are English, German, Yiddish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian and Gothic, which is extinct today.

Question #6: Maltese originated from...

Maltese originated from Arabic. Maltese first developed at the time the Arab’s conquest of Malta in 870 and is therefore a direct descendent of Arabic. Yet, Maltese grew apart from its Arabic predecessor due to the subsequent historical developments.

Question #7: Which language family does Estonian belong to?

Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language.

Question #8: Which of the following languages belong to the Baltic language group?

Latvian and Lithuanian are Baltic languages. Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language and Polish is a Slavic language.

Question #9: Which language does Romani belong to (a language of the Romany Travellers)?

Romani belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family. It is thus related to Sanskrit †/ Prakrit † and to Hindi, Bengali, Panjabi, Marathi.