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QUIZ ON LANGUAGES?
1.The word Safari and Jumbo in English is derived from which African language which has borrowed a lot of words from Arabic ?
A.      Bantu
B.      Afrikaan
C.      Zulu
D.     None of the above
2.Why is the above language mainly spoken in the East Coast of Africa and not in the west coast of Africa?
A.      Proximity to Arabia
B.      Arabs were great traders in the past and had trade relations with the people of Eastern Coastal Africa
C.      Monsoon winds made travel between the two regions easy.
D.     All the above factors is responsible for the above condition.
3.This was the language of the scholars in the past in Europe, Many languages of Europe trace their origin from this language. It is used in scientific nomenclature.
A.      Greek
B.      Latin
C.      Romani
D.     All the above
4.The linguists found this to be a great mystery , the original inhabitants of the island Madagascar which lies close to Africa spoke a language which resembles one of the following language?
a.      Afrikaan
b.      Arabic
c.       Bantu
d.      Language spoken in Sumatra.
( The millions of natives trace their ancestry to a small group of people who reached the island after being shipwrecked about a thousand years back. It was found to the amazement  of the linguists that the language spoken by these people resembled the language spoken in another part of the world even though the people of these islands did not have any contact with their land of origin for  centuries)
5.  This language is more than 3000 years old,it was the official language of many empires in the past and a language of divine worship.It is believed that Jesus Christ preached in this language. This language is on the verge of Extinction. Can you name this language?

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