1.

Konkani is a language (d) Northen Africa (a) Chinese, English,

of Answer: Southern Africa French, Hindi, Japanese
(a) Kerala 6. How many languages and Spanish
(b) Karnataka and dialects are (b) Arabic, Chinese,
(c) Goa spoken by people all English, French, Russian
(d) Assam over the World? and Spanish
Answer: Goa (a) 6000 (c) African, Chinese,
2. Pashto is the language (b) 1000 English, French, German
of which country? (c) 4000 and Spanish
(a) Pakistan (d) 9000 (d) Arabic, Japanese,
(b) Sri Lanka Answer: 9000 Chinese, English, French
(c) India 7. Approximately how and German
(d) Afghanistan many people speak Answer: Arabic, Chinese,
Answer: Afghanistan chinese language? English, French, Russian
3. Which language is (a) 1 Lakh and Spanish
used in Benin? (b) 1 Thousand 11. The official working
(a) French (c) 1 Billion languages recognised
(b) English (d) 1 Millon by the UNO are
(c) Portuguese Answer: 1 Billion (a) Spanish and Arabic
(d) Burmese 8. The Language with the (b) All of them
Answer: French richest vocabulary is (c) Chinese and English
4. In which country do (a) Hindi (d) French and Russian
people speak the (b) German Answer: All of them
language they call (c) French 12. Language of Nagaland
Nihongo? (d) English is
(a) Japan Answer: English (a) Bengali
(b) China 9. English Language have (b) English
(c) N Korea more than??.words. (c) Nagamese
(d) S Korea (a) 4,50,000 (d) Assamese
Answer: Japan (b) 450 Answer: English
5. Afrikaans language is (c) 45000 13. Kannada is state
mainly spoken in (d) 4500 language of which
(a) Western Africa Answer: 4,50,000 state?
(b) Eastern Africa 10. The official languages (a) Karnataka
(c) Southern Africa of the United Nations (b) Maharastra
are (c) Kerala
 (d) Andhra Pradesh 18. Tagin is a language of 23. Garo is a language of
Answer: Karnataka (a) Orissa (a) Bihar
14. Apart from Assamese (b) Arunachal Pradesh (b) West Bengal
which is also the (c) Tripura (c) Meghalaya
official language of (d) Tamil Nadu (d) Kerala
Assam? Answer: Arunachal Answer: Meghalaya
(a) Telegu Pradesh 24. Angami is a language
(b) Hindi 19. Apotanji is a language of
(c) Bengali of (a) Goa
(d) Kannada (a) Kerala (b) Nagaland
Answer: Bengali (b) Sikkim (c) West Bengal
15. How many languages (c) Arunachal Pradesh (d) Assam
appear on the reverse (d) West Bengal Answer: Nagaland
of contemporary Answer: Arunachal 25. Konyak is a language
currency notes? Pradesh of
(a) 20 20. Merdukpen is a (a) Nagaland
(b) 25 language of (b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) 22 (a) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Meghalaya
(d) 15 (b) Bihar (d) Arunachal Pradesh
Answer: 15 (c) West Bengal Answer: Nagaland
16. In which language (d) Haryana 26. Lepcha is a language
vande matram was Answer: Arunachal of
written? Pradesh (a) Andhra Pradesh
(a) Marathi 21. Dadri is a language of (b) Sikkim
(b) Bengali (a) Nagaland (c) Nagaland
(c) Hindi (b) Sikkim (d) Tripura
(d) Sanskrit (c) Arunachal Pradesh Answer: Sikkim
Answer: Bengali (d) Jammu Kashmir 27. Limbu is a language of
17. Which language got Answer: Jammu Kashmir (a) West Bengal
highest Gnana Peeth 22. Dogri is a language of (b) Goa
Award - Literature? (a) Nagaland (c) Orissa
(a) Marathi (b) Jammu Kashmir (d) Sikkim
(b) Kannada (c) Orissa Answer: Sikkim
(c) Hindi (d) West Bengal 28. Kakborak is a language
(d) Telgu Answer: Jammu Kashmir of
Answer: Kannada (a) Karnataka
 (b) Orissa (d) Dogri 37. The official language of
(c) Tripura Answer: Santhali the Government of
(d) Kerala 33. The oldest Indian India is
Answer: Tripura Language is (a) Malayalam
29. Apart from Assamese (a) Punjabi (b) Marathi
which is also the (b) Tamil (c) Hindi
official language of (c) Hindu (d) English
Assam? (d) Telugu Answer: Hindi
(a) Bengali Answer: Tamil 38. What is the language
(b) Hindi 34. Modern Indo-Aryan mostly used in Madhya
(c) English languages are based Pradesh?
(d) Khasi on an ancient language (a) English
Answer: Bengali called (b) Malayalam
30. The Bodo language is (a) Sanskrit (c) Hindi
spoken in which of the (b) Tamil (d) Marathi
following States? (c) Hindi Answer: Hindi
(a) Assam (d) Kannada 39. Which Academy
(b) Arunachal Pradesh Answer: Sanskrit promotes and develop
(c) Mizoram 35. The language spoken literature in all the 22
(d) Tamil Nadu in Lakshadweep languages of India?
Answer: Assam islands is (a) Sangeet Natak
31. The oldest Indian (a) Tamil Academy
language is (b) Gujarati (b) None of them
(a) Telugu (c) Malayalam (c) Lalit Kala Academy
(b) Punjabi (d) Marathi (d) Sahitya Academy
(c) Tamil Answer: Malayalam Answer: Sahitya
(d) Hindi 36. The languages spoken Academy
Answer: Tamil in Sikkim are 40. Which is the language
32. Which is the most (a) Nepali, Hindi, used in Bihar?
spoken among the Lepcha, Bhutani (a) Hindi
North Munda Group of (b) Manipuri (b) Bangla
Languages? (c) Marathi (c) Marathi and English
(a) Sindhi (d) Bengali, Tripuri (d) Urdu
(b) Santhali Answer: Nepali, Hindi, Answer: Hindi
(c) Assamese Lepcha, Bhutani 41. Which language is
spoken in Karnataka?
 (a) Hindi given to scholars by publishing newspapers
(b) Kannada Krishna Deva Rai? in 18 principal
(c) Marathi (a) Telugu languages?
(d) Malayalam (b) Kannada (a) Kerala
Answer: Kannada (c) Tamil (b) Orissa
42. Which languages are (d) Sanskrit (c) Uttar Pradesh
spoken in Nagaland? Answer: Telugu (d) Maharashtra
(a) Konyak, Naga 46. Panini, the first Answer: Orissa
(b) None of them Grammarian of 50. Which is the only
(c) English Sanskrit language in scheduled language
(d) Khasi and Garo India, lived during the that does not have a
Answer: Konyak, Naga (a) 2nd Century A. D. daily news paper?
43. Which languages of (b) 5th-6th Century A. D. (a) Urdu
India belong to (c) 6th -5th Century B. C. (b) Kashmiri
Dravidian family? (d) 2nd Century B. C. (c) Assamese
(a) Languages of Answer: 6th -5th Century (d) Gujarati
Southern India B. C. Answer: Kashmiri
(b) Languages of 47. Of the 250 known 51. The language of the
Western India alphabets in the history discourses of Gautama
(c) Languages of of language, how many Buddha was
Northern India are in use today? (a) Pali
(d) Languages of (a) 26 (b) Sanskrit
Eastern India (b) 45 (c) Bhojpuri
Answer: Languages of (c) 35 (d) Mahadhi
Southern India (d) 50 Answer: Pali
44. Which of the following Answer: 50 52. In which languages did
are the native 48. Which word has most Buddha preach ?
languages of Manipur? definitions in english (a) Pali
(a) Manipuri and English language? (b) Sanskrit
(b) None of them (a) Set (c) Prakrit
(c) Marathi and Hindi (b) Game (d) Brahmi
(d) Manipuri (c) Language Answer: Pali
Answer: Manipuri and (d) Fun 53. Which of the following
English Answer: Set languages was
45. Which language gained 49. Which state has the adopted for preaching
most by the patronage distinction of in Mahayana Buddhism
 ? (d) Tamil (c) Konkani, Nepali,
(a) Sanskrit Answer: Tamil Maithili
(b) Brahmi 58. Which of the following (d) Konkani, Manipuri,
(c) Pali languages is not an Nepali
(d) Prakrit outstanding language Answer: Konkani,
Answer: Sanskrit of Dravidian group Manipuri, Nepali
54. The court language of (a) Assamese 62. How many languages
Mughal was (b) Telugu are so far listed in the
(a) Arabic (c) Kannada eighth Schedule of the
(b) Urdu (d) Malayalam Indian Constitution ?
(c) Hindi Answer: Assamese (a) 15
(d) Persian 59. The language used in (b) 17
Answer: Persian China is (c) 16
55. The languages of the (a) Chinese, Arabic (d) 18
Satavahana (b) Chinese, Korean Answer: 18
inscriptions was (c) Chinese, French 63. Which article of Indian
|(a) Pali (d) Chinese, English Constitution prescribes
(b) Telugu Answer: Chinese, Hindi in Devanagari
(c) Tamil English script as the official
(d) Prakrit 60. English is the official language of the Union
Answer: Prakrit language of which of ?
56. Which language was the following states ? (a) 341
used in the literature of (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) 346
Sangam period ? (b) Nagaland (c) 342
(a) Telugu (c) Manipur (d) 343
(b) Kannada (d) Karnataka Answer: 343
(c) Tamil Answer: Nagaland 64. Which language was
(d) Sanskrit 61. The three languages added as the 15th
Answer: Tamil included in the Eighth official language to the
57. Which of the following Schedule of the 8th Schedule of the
is the oldest Dravidian Constitution by the Constitution ?
language ? 71st amendment are (a) Sindhi
(a) Kannada (a) Konkani, English, (b) Marathi
(b) Malayalam Manipuri (c) Hindi
(c) Telugu (b) Konkani, Nepali, (d) Urdu
Dogri Answer: Sindhi
65. Urdu was adopted
recently as a state
language by
(a) U.P. 69. To secure the
(b) Punjab
(c) JandK
(d) Bihar
Answer: U.P.
66. Konkani, a language
recently included in the
8th Schedule of the
Constitution, is widely
spoken in which
State/Union Territory ?
(a) Lakshadweep
(b) Andaman and
Nicobar
(c) Goa
(d) Pondicherry
Answer: Goa
67. Which language is not 70. Which of the following
recognised in the 8th
Schedule through it is
called an official
language of a state ?
(a) Sindhi
(b) Kashmiri
(c) Sanskrit
(d) English
Answer: English
68. Which language is 71. Which of the following
spoken next to Hindi,
in terms of number of
people, in India ?
(a) Marathi
(b) Tamil
(c) Telugu
(d) Bengali
Answer: Telugu
enrichment of Hindi,
the Cinstitution, among
other things, directs 72. Which of the following
the state to give
primary importance to
one of the languages
included in the
schedule for the
purpose of drawing
upon it. This language
is
(a) Sanskrit
(b) Urdu
(c) Bengali
(d) Marathi
Answer: Sanskrit
is not a language 73. The number of major
included in the Eighth
schedule of the
constitution of India ?
(a) Kashmiri
(b) Sindhi
(c) Sanskrit
(d) English
Answer: English
languages are included
in the Eight schedule
of the Constitution of
India ?
(a) English and Kashmiri
(b) Kashmiri and
Gorkhari
(c) Sindhi and Kashmiri
(d) Sindhi and English
Answer: Sindhi and
Kashmiri
languages have been
added to the Eight
schedule of the
constitution in 1992 ?
(a) Konkani, Manipuri
and Nepali
(b) Dogri, Nepali and
Manipuri
(c) Konkani, Manipuri
and Sindhi
(d) Konkani, Manipuri
and Dogri
Answer: Konkani,
Manipuri and Nepali
languages recognized
in the Indian Union as
official languages, are
(a) 9
(b) 18
(c) 15
(d) 12
Answer: 18