Loaded Questions 1/16/22 - Language

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1. "Arigato" is the Japanese word for what?

2. What region, the northwest corner of Spain with capital city Santiago de Compostela, has a dialect very similar to Portuguese and is often lumped into its language family?

3. "Fan-damn-tastic" is an example of what linguistic phenomenon, from the Greek for "a cutting"?

4. Developed by Noam Chomsky, what theory suggests all languages share certain properties, and that children are innately able to learn the properties of language?

5. Prolicide is the act of killing who?

6. Founded in 1997, "Daily Pakistan" is a newspaper published in what language?

7. "Language alternation" is another name for what linguistics phenomenon?

8. Literally for the Japanese for "Chinese characters", what name is given to the Chinese characters used in Japanese writing systems? Hiragana and katakana are the other systems related to this one.

9. What word meaning an important person comes from the Swahili for "master"?

10. What greeting in Maori has entered English as a phrase meaning "cheers"? It literally translates as "Be healthy".

11. What name is given to the circular mark above the A in the Swedish/Danish letter Å?

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ANSWERS
1. Thank you
2. Galicia / Galician
3. Tmesis
4. Universal language
5. One’s offspring
6. Urdu
7. Code-switching
8. Kanji
9. Bwana
10. Kia ora
11. Overring