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Category: Quiz questions

Language quiz

23 December 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of Silent Night in a mystery. Do you know of can you guess which language it?

I’ll be making the long track north to the parental home tomorrow, and will probably be offline for most of the week. So you’ll have to wait until next week for the answer.

A Multilingual Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions4 Comments

Name the alphabet

22 December 2007 By Simon

Here’s a text in a mystery alphabet sent in by one of my correspondents. Any ideas which alphabet it is and which language it’s being used to write here?

Mystery alphabet

Posted in Language, Quiz questions, Writing, fonts & typography9 Comments

Language quiz

16 December 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of a mystery language. Can you guess or do you know which language it is? Or at least which language family it belongs to.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions7 Comments

Where in the world?

15 December 2007 By Simon

Here’s a photo of a mystery city. Do you know which city it is, and which language is spoken there?

Mystery city

Posted in Language, Quiz questions, Travel10 Comments

Language quiz

9 December 2007 By Simon

The image below shows the languages into which Brighton & Hove Council translates documents. Something like this appears on most council documents. Can you identify the languages?

Language quiz 09/12/07

Posted in Language, Quiz questions22 Comments

Language quiz

8 December 2007 By Simon

Here’s a scan of a banknote from a mystery country. How many languages and writing systems appear on it and which ones? Can you also work out where it’s from, and its denomination and date?

Mystery banknote

Posted in Language, Quiz questions19 Comments

Name the language

2 December 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is and where it’s spoken?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions15 Comments

Language quiz

1 December 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Any ideas which language it is?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions17 Comments

Name the language

25 November 2007 By Simon

Here’s a text in a mystery language and alphabet. Any ideas which language or alphabet it is?

Text in mystery language and alphabet

Posted in Language, Quiz questions10 Comments

Language quiz

24 November 2007 By Simon

Here is a recording of a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is and where it’s spoken.

Clue: it sounds like a language that’s probably familiar, but isn’t that language.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions15 Comments

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