Languages of the World
Questionnaire
1. How many human languages are currently spoken? [Click for answer]
2. What language indigenous to the Western Hemisphere currently has
the largest number of speakers? [Click for answer]
3. Given 'verb', 'subject', and 'object', what is the normal order in
English? [Click for answer]
In Japanese? [Click for answer]
4. What language was spoken in the area around Houston at the time of
Columbus? [Click for answer]
5. What is the national language of the Philippines? [Click for answer]
6. What kind of language is it that attaches multiple affixes to the
verb as in the following example from Mohawk? [Click for answer]
kh-y-a-ha-nya?kw-a-kwari-hsy-a?t-e?
[contrastive-translocative-aorist-masculine singular agent
-esophagus-epenthetic-crooked-reversive-causative-punctual]
'He drank it right down'
7. What family of languages does Mohawk belong to? Iroquoian
8. How many indigenous languages may have been spoken in the Western
Hemisphere in 1492? [Click for answer]
9. How many indigenous languages are spoken today in the Western
Hemisphere? [Click for answer]
10. How many languages were spoken in North American in 1492 [Click for answer]
& how many today?[Click for answer]
11. How many indigenous languages currently spoken in North America have
< 100 speakers? [Click for answer] <1000? [Click for answer]