Identifying Written Languages

Which alphabet do Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian use?

• Greek
• Cyrillic
• Latin
• Devanagari

Which language uses the letter ñ and upside-down ¿?

• Polish
• French
• Spanish
• German

Small marks that help tell Latin-alphabet languages apart are called ____.

• diacritics
• hanzi
• syllables
• hangul

Korean's hangul alphabet was invented under which king?

• King Louis
• King Arthur
• King Sejong
• King Devanagari

Chinese characters called hanzi usually stand for a sound rather than a word or idea.

• True
• False

Which script has a horizontal line running along the top of words?

• Devanagari
• Hangul
• Katakana
• Cyrillic

Arabic and Hebrew are both written from right to left.

• True
• False

The German letter ß, which stands for a double 's' sound, is called the ____.

• tilde
• umlaut
• cedilla
• eszett

Which language capitalizes ALL nouns, not just names?

• Italian
• Polish
• German
• French

Which common short words point to Spanish?

• der, die, und
• el, la, de, y
• the, and, of
• le, les, et

Which languages use letters like å, ø, and æ?

• Scandinavian
• Slavic
• Baltic
• Celtic

Finnish and Hungarian tend to have long words with many vowels.

• True
• False

Which language uses the dotless letter ı and the letter ş?

• Welsh
• Polish
• Greek
• Turkish

Japanese mixes kanji with two syllable scripts, hiragana and ____.

• katakana
• devanagari
• hanzi
• hangul

What is the fastest clue for identifying a language?

• Word length
• Page color
• The script
• Sentence count