World Languages Quiz

Try out this World Languages quiz to test your knowledge. World Languages trivia highlights how thousands of languages have shaped trade, migration, religion, and everyday life across centuries.

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Question 1 · Medium · 20 pts
Who is widely known for helping bring Hebrew back into everyday modern speech?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
Which inscription is famed for being crucial to the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
Which Indo-European languages were once spoken in the Tarim Basin, far from the better-known early Indo-European heartlands?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Which script was traditionally used by women in Jiangyong County in Hunan, China?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
The standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh was composed in which language?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Modern Georgian is commonly written in which script family member?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
The sacred texts known as the Avesta are written in which language?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Much of the Aztec Empire used which language?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
The earliest surviving inscriptions in which script are found primarily in Ireland?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
Which Finnic language of Latvia lost its last native speaker in the 21st century?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
Which famous ancestral language of Eurasia is known only through reconstruction rather than direct written records?
Question 12 · Hard · 40 pts
If you wanted the oldest known cuneiform tablets in the world, which writing system would you be looking at from late 4th millennium BCE Mesopotamia?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
Miguel de Cervantes originally wrote Don Quixote in which language?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
The Little Prince was first written in what language?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
Which online service is known for multilingual machine translation?

Who is widely known for helping bring Hebrew back into everyday modern speech?

Which inscription is famed for being crucial to the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform?

Which Indo-European languages were once spoken in the Tarim Basin, far from the better-known early Indo-European heartlands?

Which script was traditionally used by women in Jiangyong County in Hunan, China?

The standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh was composed in which language?

Modern Georgian is commonly written in which script family member?

The sacred texts known as the Avesta are written in which language?

Much of the Aztec Empire used which language?

The earliest surviving inscriptions in which script are found primarily in Ireland?

Which Finnic language of Latvia lost its last native speaker in the 21st century?

Which famous ancestral language of Eurasia is known only through reconstruction rather than direct written records?

If you wanted the oldest known cuneiform tablets in the world, which writing system would you be looking at from late 4th millennium BCE Mesopotamia?

Miguel de Cervantes originally wrote Don Quixote in which language?

The Little Prince was first written in what language?

Which online service is known for multilingual machine translation?