Languages of the World Quiz

Under construction! (21 August 2005)

Choose a difficulty level:

Very difficult: all languages in the database (7382 languages for whole world)
Difficult: only languages with at least ten thousand speakers (6171 languages for whole world)
Moderate: only languages with at least fifty thousand speakers (1682 languages for whole world)
Easy: only languages with at least five hundred thousand speakers (518 languages for whole world)

Optional: uncheck one or more regions to exclude them from the quiz (default is whole world):

Africa, Asia, and Europe
Australia, New Guinea, and Pacific
North America (including Central America)
South America and the Caribbean

For each question, you will be given a language name, and you will identify its:

Language family or stock
Country of primary location

(NB. the questions are randomly generated and never stop coming)

Credits: see Ethnologue (web version, print version). This site by Kevin Ryan.