Linguist

Around how many spoken languages are there in the world today?

6000

As of right now, what human group is determined to be the first speaker of languages?

Homo sapiens

English belongs to what language group?

Germanic

How many written languages are there in the world today?

200

In terms of structure, what language does the English language relate to?

German

The English language picked up a great deal of French influence after who invaded England?

Normans

The study of the sound of language is called what?

Phonology

What is the name of the vernacular that came out of the African-American culture?

African American Vernacular English

What philosopher believes that there is a universal mental language?

Noam Chomsky

What speaking device requires narrowing the air passage?

Fricative

What word describes the identification of speech sounds?

Phonetics

What word describes the identification of the system of the sets of sound in a language?

Phonemics

What word describes the "study of a word structure"?

Morphology

What word describes the "study of a sentence structure"?

Syntax

What word describes the "study of meaning"?

Semantics

Which language has no definite or indefinite articles?

Russian

Which of these words begins with a stop?

Pill

Which of these words has an affricate?

Budged

Which of these languages is a highly inflected language?

Russian

Who added psychological theory to the study of language?

Edward Sapir

What is the name of the creator of the very popular computer game "Sims"?

Will Wright

What is Athens called in Greek?

Athina

What is Damascus called in Arabic?

Dimashq

What does pagination mean?

Putting numbers on book pages

What is Kuwait City called in Arabic?

Madinat al-Kuwait

What does the term "calamity" mean?

Misfortune

Corona is the name of a few different things. But one of these has nothing to do with the name, which one?

A German soccer club

What is "calypso"?

A type of music

What pseudonym is connected with the name François-Marie Arouet?

Voltaire

What do yoga practitioners call energy centers in the human body?

Chakras