Languages and alphabets quiz
Checked on 4 November 2026
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How many letters are there in the modern English alphabet?
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The answer is 26.
Modern English uses a Latin-script alphabet of 26 letters, from A to Z.
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Hiragana and katakana are scripts used to write which language?
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The answer is Japanese.
Hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, used alongside katakana and kanji in the Japanese writing system.
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The Devanagari script is used for more than 120 languages. Which is the most widely used of them?
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The answer is Hindi.
Devanagari is used for over 120 languages, and Hindi is the most popular of them.
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What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
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The answer is Omega.
The Greek alphabet has 24 letters, running from alpha at the start to omega at the end.
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Which king of Korea's Joseon dynasty is remembered for the creation of Hangul, the Korean alphabet?
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The answer is Sejong the Great.
King Sejong the Great is particularly remembered for the creation of Hangul, the native alphabet of the Korean language.
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In which medieval state was the Cyrillic script created?
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The answer is First Bulgarian Empire.
Cyrillic was created during the First Bulgarian Empire, long before it spread to Russian and other languages.
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Which language is Europe's only known language isolate, with no relation to any other known language?
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The answer is Basque.
Basque, spoken in parts of Spain and France, has no known relation to any other language.
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Which is the only Semitic language officially written in the Latin script?
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The answer is Maltese.
Maltese is a Semitic language, yet it is officially written with the Latin alphabet.
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Who invented the Cherokee syllabary in the late 1810s and early 1820s?
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The answer is Sequoyah.
Sequoyah created a syllabary to write the Cherokee language, finishing it in the early 1820s.
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Georgian has been written in three scripts over its history. Which one is the standard script today?
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The answer is Mkhedruli.
Of the three Georgian scripts (Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli), Mkhedruli is the standard for modern Georgian.