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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Chimbu & Enga are among the nearly 800 Papuan languages spoken on this “new” island

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New Guinea

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The people of this island nation south of Sicily use a Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet

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Malta

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The language group named for these nomadic tribesmen of north Africa is also called Tamazight

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Berber

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$18000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Although Dutch is the official language, Sranan Tongo is spoken by most people in this South American country

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Suriname

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The language of these Japanese aboriginal people is virtually extinct but once had as many as 19 dialects

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the Ainu

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Russian is an official language of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & this nation once known as Byelorussia

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Belarus

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This Chinese tongue is spoken by more than a billion people

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Mandarin

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor</a>.) With around 180 million speakers worldwide, its the official language of eight countries, including the five former European colonies highlighted here

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Portuguese

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$3000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Frisian, a Germanic language, is spoken in 3 areas, each with its own dialect, along the coast of this sea

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the North Sea

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Colorado language is spoken by around 2,000 in the jungle west of this capital of Ecuador

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Quito

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the official language of Qatar

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Arabic

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Romansch, a dialect of the Central Alps, is the fourth national language of this country

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Switzerland

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This dialect forms the basis of modern standard Chinese, usually called Putonghua, “common language”

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Mandarin

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Tagalog is the basis for one of the official languages of this country

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the Philippines

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| L.L. Zamenhof grew up in an area of Poland where 4 languages were spoken, leading to ethnic animosity, so he created this

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Esperanto

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Yupik is a native language spoken by about 15,000 in Siberia & the western part of this state

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Alaska

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.</a>) Of France’s many languages, Breton, introduced by the Celts, & Gallo, developed from Latin, serve this coastal region

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Brittany

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Paul’s letters in the New Testament were written in a version of this language called Koine

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Greek

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In the 17th century Jesuit missionaries developed a written form of this Asian language known as Quoc Ngu

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Vietnamese

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The semitic language of Akkadian was spoken in this land whose name means “between rivers”

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Mesopotamia

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Lombard is a romance language spoken primarily in southern Switzerland & the northern part of this country

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Italy

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Oromo is a major Cushitic language spoken in the northern parts of Kenya & this nation east of Sudan

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Ethiopia

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Spoken by this Indian culture for 13 centuries, Quiche is Guatemala’s 2nd-most widely spoken tongue

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the Mayan culture

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$1600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Also called Cape Dutch, it has constitutional recognition as a national language in Namibia

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Afrikaans

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The word “llama” is derived from this mother tongue of the Inca

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Quechua

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Nahuatl & Zapotec are Indian languages spoken mainly in this country

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Mexico

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In 1939 a language based on Tagalog became this country’s official language

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the Philippines

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| More than 90% of Turks speak Turkish; about 6% speak this language of southern Turkey & northern Iraq

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Kurdish

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$3000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Formally known as Euskara, this language spoken in the Pyrenees is not clearly related to any known language

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Basque

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The official languages of this large island nation are French, English & Malagasy

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Madagascar

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The official languages of Wales are Welsh & this

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English

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Related to Italian, it has about 5 million speakers in S. Italy & on a large Mediterranean island

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Sicilian

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| World Book says that only about 350 Gaulish words have become part of this modern language

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French

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language spoken in Reykjavik is also called Islenska

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Icelandic

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Chinese in Hong Kong & Macao mainly speak this Chinese dialect

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Cantonese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| W szczebrzeszynie, chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie, “…a beetle buzzes in the reeds”, is a tongue twister in this language

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Polish

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Mosul is a good place to hear the Northern Kurmanji dialect of this minority language of Iraq

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Kurdish

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In the 500s B.C., this replaced Hebrew as the Jews’ language; part of the Book of Daniel is written in it

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Aramaic

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$1600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In the 1920s this language of Anatolia switched from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet

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Turkish

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Halloween has its origins in the festival of Samhain, which means “summer’s end” in this language

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Irish (or Celtic)

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Grammar schools originally emphasized the study of the grammar of these 2 ancient languages

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Latin & Greek

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Spoken by 45 million, it’s a descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus from the 10th to 13th Centuries

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Ukranian

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Pomeranian & Silesian are major dialects of this West Slavic language

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Polish

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$1600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| “Bai nai” or “Where are you going?” is a greeting in this Asian language whose name also ends in -ai

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Thai

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The main language of Kosovo, an autonomous province of Serbia, is this language of a neighboring Muslim country

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Albanian

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Armenia is the hub for speakers of Armenian; this country has the most speakers of Rundi

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Burundi

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a monitor.</a>) Kufic, named for the city of Kufa and often used for religious texts, is an ancient style of writing this most widely spoken Semitic language

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Arabic

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Vi vill ha en smorgas och jordnotter–sorry, slipped into this language for a second

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Swedish

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$1600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the term used for Dutch as spoken in Belgium; in it, Antwerp is Antwerpen

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Flemish

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| “Battle” was “gefeoht” in this, the language spoken in London until about 1100

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Old English

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$None ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In South America, these are the 2 most widely spoken languages

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Spanish & Portuguese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Speakers of this language, not Spanish, answer the phone with “pronto”

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Italian

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from the fishing docks.</a>) Paradoxically, “Dhen milao elinika” means “I don’t speak” this

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Greek

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Machu, as in Machu Picchu, means “old” in this language

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Quechuan

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$3000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Spoken by most people in Hong Kong, it has 9 tones compared to Mandarin’s 4

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Cantonese

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In this language heard in & around Barcelona, the Spanish “bueno” becomes simply “bo”

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Catalan

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Finland has 3 national languages: Finnish & this one spoken by its neighbor

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Swedish

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| (<a>Jeff Probst, host of <i>Survivor</i>, gives the clue from Vanuatu.</a>) The Ni-Vanuatu speak a pidgin language called Bislama. You might tell a local, “Me no talk-talk Bislama”, which means this

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I don’t speak Bislama

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Wu & Hakka are among the many dialect groups of this language

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Chinese

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Although Spanish is based on Latin, many of its words come from this language of the Moors

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Arabic

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Portuguese is spoken by more than 150 million people; 80% of them live in this country

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Brazil

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Scholars agree that the oldest form of this language can be found in the song of Deborah in Judges

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Hebrew

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language is known by its speakers as Nederlands

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Dutch

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of Inka, Dinka or Doo, an actual language spoken in southern Sudan

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Dinka

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| More than 375 languages & dialects are spoken in this country’s Madhya Pradesh state

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India

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Gaspar Karolyi’s translation of the Bible in 1590 was influential in the development of this as a national language

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Hungarian

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Native to just one U.S. state, this language is of Polynesian origin

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Hawaiian

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Vedas, the oldest Hindu scriptures, are written in this language

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Sanskrit

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$1200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of the U.N.’s official languages, it’s the one that uses the Cyrillic alphabet

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Russian

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$1600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This form of Chinese beats Wu & Yue (or Cantonese) in total number of speakers

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Mandarin

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Thailand is home to Thai & this African country is home to Rundi

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Burundi

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This country’s official language, Tajik, is an Iranian language

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Tajikistan

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language’s main dialect, Castilian, developed from the area of Burgos

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Spanish

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Words in the English language taken directly from this language include flak, hinterland & kindergarten

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German

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Important literary works in the Eastern variety of this language of India are written in Awadhi

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Hindi

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Although Wolof is Senegal’s most widely spoken language, this is its official language

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French

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$None ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The eastern variety of this language is based on the dialect of the city of Yerevan & the Ararat Valley

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Armenian

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Bavarian-Austrian is the form of this language spoken in such cities as Munich & Vienna

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German

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| World Book says that only about 350 Gaulish words have become part of this modern language

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French

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Chinese in Hong Kong & Macao speak this dialect that’s the one most commonly spoken overseas

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Cantonese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Petronius wrote his “Satyricon” in the vulgar form of this language

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Latin

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Christian form of this Semitic language is called Syriac

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Aramaic

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The official languages of Wales are Welsh & this

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English

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Mazarec is the language of the Mazarec people of Oaxaca in this country

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Mexico

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| More than 40 million people speak Urdu as their native language, & most of them live on this continent

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Asia

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This extinct Romance language has the same name as a spotted dog breed

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Dalmatian

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language spoken in Reykjavik is also called Islenska

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Icelandic

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$None ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of the 6 official languages of the United Nations, the one spoken by the fewest people worldwide

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French

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Asturo-Leonese & Aragonese are 2 dialects of this language

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Spanish

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language developed in 4 phases: Ancient, Hellenistic, Byzantine & Modern

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Greek

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the official language of Barbados

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English

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s also called Erse

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Irish

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Zulu, Sesotho & Xhosa are among this country’s 11 official languages

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South Africa

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Korean alphabet in common use today has 10 vowels & 14 of these

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Consonants

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Austrians sing their national anthem in this, their official language

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German

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This Scandinavian language is also known as Dansk

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Danish

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Plautus wrote plays in the “Vulgar” form of this ancient language

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Latin

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Balinese is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Bali in this country

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Indonesia

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Romanian developed from this language of the ancient Romans

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Latin

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Athenians speak the Attic dialect of this language

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Greek

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Most of the classes in Quebec schools are taught in this language

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French

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Javanese is the native language of about 60 million people on the island of Java in this country

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Indonesia

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Most of the people of Brazil speak this official language

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Portuguese

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India

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The troubadours of the 1100s & 1200s wrote their poetry in Provencal, a dialect of this language

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French

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In Belgium dialects of this language include Oost-Vlaams & West-Vlaams

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Flemish

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the official language of Dominica in the West Indies

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English

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Belorussian is also known by this “colorful” name

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White Russian

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Preceding Bengali, it’s alphabetically first of the dozen most spoken languages in the world

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Arabic

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Mexican pop group Kabah took the name of this language created in 1887 as the title of its 1998 CD

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Esperanto

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Language being listened to by the man seen here with Clinton (Vaclav Havel)

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Czech

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| To read the Domesday Book in its original form, you have to know this language

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Latin

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The earliest written record we have of any Indo-European language is from this empire of Asia Minor

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Hittite

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The standard form of this language developed from that spoken in Amsterdam & nearby cities

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Dutch

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Finnish national anthem, “Our Land”, is “Maame” in Finnish & “Vart Land” in this other official language

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Swedish

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Among the many dialects of this language are Maine, Gallo & Bourbonnais

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French

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This major language of the Canary Islands is spoken with what has been called a slight Andalusian accent

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Spanish

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of Latvian, Lithuanian, or Estonian, the language not closely related to the other 2

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Estonian

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Neapolitan dialect of this language is noted for its singsong quality

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Italian

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Spanish is closely related to this language spoken widely in Lisbon

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Portuguese

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the official language of the country where we taped our International Tournament in 1997

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Swedish

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| During the Middle Ages, this language spoken in Amsterdam was known as Diets

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Dutch

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Messenian & Cretan are considered to be Doric dialects of this language

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Greek

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Farsi is the official language of this Islamic republic

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Iran

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Scholars say the oldest form of this language can be found in the fifth chapter of Judges

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Hebrew

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Although there are many Berber dialects in Algeria, this is the official language

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Arabic

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Galician, spoken in northwest Spain, is a dialect of the language spoken in this other Iberian country

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Portugal

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Chalti-Bhasa is the spoken form of this official language of Bangladesh

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Bengali

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Roman Catholic church translates all of its principal documents into this dead language

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Latin

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This official language of Liechtenstein is spoken by about 120 million people worldwide

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German

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| About 3/4 of the people of Singapore speak this Asian language

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Chinese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In Belgium the Flemings speak Dutch & the Walloons speak this language

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French

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The language of this small Balkan country has 2 main dialects: Gheg & Tosk

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Albania

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| “Pehea oe?” means “How are you?” in this language spoken in the 50th state

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Hawaiian

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language whose native speakers call it Svensk has some loanwords from French

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Swedish

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the language you’d expect a native Rhodian to speak

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Greek (island of Rhodes)

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Mazovian is one of the major dialects of this eastern European language

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Polish

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Hiligaynon, a Bisayan language of this country, is closely related to Tagalog

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Philippines

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Modern Persian is also called Farsi from the Fars region in the southwest of this country

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Iran

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In Greenland, Greenlandic & this language are official ones

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Danish

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Latin American form of this language is based on the Andalusian dialect

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Spanish

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of the 5 distinct dialects of this country’s Coptic language, Bohairic is used in the Coptic Church

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Egypt

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Papuan languages, spoken in the area centered on this island, number about 700

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New Guinea

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Cantonese form of this language is also known as Yue

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Chinese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Nederlands is another name for this language

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Dutch

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In 1990 Belarusian replaced this as the official language of Belarus

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Russian

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Belize’s national anthem is usually sung in this language

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English

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The famous 15th century poem “Orlando Innamorato” was written in this language

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Italian

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Mandarin dialect of this language has 4 tones: high-level, rising, low-dipping & falling

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Chinese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language has over 12 million speakers in the Netherlands & about 5 million in Belgium

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Dutch

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The prose of this ancient language was developed mainly in Ionia

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Greek

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In its earliest form, this Old Testament language was probably identical to Phoenician

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Hebrew

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Tallinn is the northern dialect of this European language

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Estonian

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Sir Richard Burton translated “The Thousand And One Nights” from this language

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Arabic

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Name shared by a Siberian people, their Uralic language & their dog, seen here: [Video - elegant white dog]

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Samoyed

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Language in which the Bible’s New Testament was written

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ancient Greek

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Fiji doesn’t have an official religion, but it does have this as its official language

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English

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| To read the Mahabharata in its original language, you have to know this tongue

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Sanskrit

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In Hanoi the Romanized writing system of this language is called Quoc Ngu

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Vietnamese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s Panama’s official language

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Spanish

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In Kenya, Parliamentary bills are drafted in both Swahili & this language

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English

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan’s official language, is written using this alphabet

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Cyrillic

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language of Jesus is still spoken in some Syrian villages

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Aramaic

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Lao, the official language of this southeast Asian country, is mostly monosyllabic

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Laos

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The dramas of Seneca & the histories of Tacitus belong to this language’s silver age

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Latin

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Romansh is spoken in this country’s canton of Graubunden

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Switzerland

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language whose name means “Jewish” arose between the 9th & 12th centuries in southwestern Germany

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Yiddish

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Formosan languages, spoken by about 200,000 on this island, belong to the Austronesian family

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Taiwan

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Brazilians have added words from African slaves & the Tupi Indians to this language

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Portuguese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Modern speakers of this Semitic language call it Ivrit

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Hebrew

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the official language of Bahrain

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Arabic

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Coptic was the last phase of this language whose 5,000-year recorded history is the longest known

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Egyptian

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the most widely spoken of the artificial languages

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Esperanto

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This Scandinavian language changed “aa” to a circle-topped “a”, making it closer to Swedish and Norwegian

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Danish

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| All of the Romance languages have their roots in this language

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Latin

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Balinese is spoken on several islands of this country

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Indonesia

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Hungarians call their official language this

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Magyar

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Punjabi is spoken by about half of all households in this country

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Pakistan

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of Hindi, Hungarian or Hebrew, the one spoken by more than 350 million people

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Hindi

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It was Greta Garbo’s native language

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Swedish

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Khosian languages of this continent are noted for their clicking sounds

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Africa

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Dialects of this Romance language include Bourbonnais & Bourguignon

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French

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Bikol is the Austronesian language of the Bikol people on this country’s island of Luzon

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the Philippines

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Medieval plays known as juegos de escarnio were performed in this European language

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Spanish

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Kordofanian languages are spoken in the Kordofan region of this country, south of Khartoum

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the Sudan

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The 3 major Ugric languages are Khanty, Mansi & this Central European language also known as Magyar

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Hungarian

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In the 500s & 600s it replaced Latin as the official language of the Byzantine Empire

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Greek

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Putonghua, the chief representative of this dialect, is based on the speech of Beijing

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Mandarin

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language belongs to the Canaanite branch of the northwest Semitic languages

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Hebrew

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Although Arabic is Tunisia’s official language, this has the status of a second national language

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French

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Geographically, it’s the most widely-spoken Germanic language

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English

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of the modern Romance languages, Sardinian is the most similar to the vulgar form of this language

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Latin

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Swedish contains many loanwords from both the “low” & “high” forms of this language

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German

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The primitive Mycenaean form of this language was spoken at least as far back as the 13th century B.C.

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Greek

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This Baltic language is also known as Lett

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Latvian

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The ancient philosophical texts known as the Upanishads were written in this classical language

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Sanskrit

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language’s mainland dialects are divided into 3 groups: Eastern, Western & Kyushu

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Japanese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Written materials in this language date back to the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842

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French

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| A variety of Malay called Bahasa Jakarta is spoken in the capital of this island nation

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Indonesia

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The language of the Faroe Islands is Faroese, but this national language is taught in schools

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Danish

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This dialect is also called Northern Chinese

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Mandarin

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Encyclopedia Americana calls the Homeric form of this “an artificial literary language”

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Greek

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The word Mexico comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Toltecs & these other ancient people

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Aztecs

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Abruzzese is a dialect of this language

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Italian

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Rif is a Berber language spoken mainly in the northern part of this continent

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Africa

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$2000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The fables known as the Panchatantra were originally written in this classical language

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Sanskrit

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$None ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Dublin’s famous Book of Kells is written in this language

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Latin

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In a list of dictionary abbreviations, this language is often listed as Lith.

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Lithuanian

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of Balinese, Bengali or Bulgarian, the one that has the most speakers by far

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Bengali

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The famous operetta “The Gondoliers” was written in this language

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English

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$1400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Portuguese, Sardinian & Ladino belong to this group of Indo-European languages

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the Romance languages

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Guarani is both a language & the basic unit of currency in this landlocked South American country

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Paraguay

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Farsi, which is also called Persian, is spoken in this country once known as Persia

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Iran

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In dictionaries, this language is often abbreviated Skt.

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Sanskrit

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the language that gave us the words luau & lei

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Hawaiian

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Ge’ez is an ancient language still used in this country whose capital is Addis Ababa

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Ethiopia

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It was the native language of Pope John Paul I, but not of Pope John Paul II

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Italian

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$None ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The 2 languages on the Rosetta Stone

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Egyptian & Greek

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It evolved from Anglo-Saxon dialect of Wessex

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English

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Prior to WWII this language was traditionally written in a Gothic style called “Fraktur”

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German

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Malagasy & French are the languages of this island off the coast of Africa

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Madagascar

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The modern form of this language is based on the Tuscan dialect

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Italian

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Zulu & Swahili are among the best-known languages of this African language group

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Bantu

224
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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Petronius & Cicero were known to write in the Vulgar form of this language

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Latin

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Khalkha, spoken around Ulan Bator, is the official dialect of this country

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Mongolia

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Street signs in Brussels are printed in French & this language

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Flemish

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In addition to English, most people of this self-governing U.S. island also speak Chamorro

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Guam

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$2300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the only Slavic language that is an official language of the United Nations

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Russian

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$100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| More people in county Galway speak this language than in any other county

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Irish Gaelic

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Gullah is still spoken by some blacks in this country

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the United States

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$300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The Ciceronian Age followed by the Augustan Age created the Golden Age of literature in this language

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Latin

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| R. Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, wrote in this language of Bangladesh

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Bengali

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$500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Hausa, Yoruba & Ibo are the principal African languages spoken in this country

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Nigeria

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the official language of Angola, Mozambique, Brazil & the country where it originated

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Portuguese

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Scholars estimate that half of the words in English are derived from this ancient tongue

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Latin

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Our words balcony, umbrella & volcano come from this modern language

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Italian

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$1300 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It’s the only Warsaw Pact nation in which a Romance language is official

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Romania

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This Baltic language is also called Lettish

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Latvian

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| 2 of the more than 800 languages spoken on this continent are Kimbundu & Kikuyu

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Africa

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The words “ersatz” & “hinterland” come directly from this language

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German

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Classical languages include ancient Greek, Latin & this language of ancient India

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Sanskrit

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Languages derived from French that are spoken in Haiti & Louisiana are both called this

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Creole

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Some of the aboriginal people of the northernmost islands of this country speak Ainu

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Japan

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Quechua, widely spoken in Peru & Ecuador, was the mother tongue of this ancient Indian nation

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Inca

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$3800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Of all Semite languages, this one is spoken by the most people

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Arabic

246
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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The 1st written record of this language is a transcription of the Strasbourg Oaths of 842

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French

247
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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Standard Spanish originated in this ancient kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula

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Castille

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In French, sentences placing “ne” before the verb & “pas” after it make it this

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negative

249
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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| An official language of Kenya, its name means “coast people”

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Swahili

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Among languages spoken by more than 1 million people, it’s the only one whose name begins with “V”

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Vietnamese

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| You don’t have to be crazy to know “meshugga” is from this language

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Yiddish

252
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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This saint should be praised for coming up with the script for the Russian alphabet

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St. Cyril (or his brother Methodius)

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Unlike their Spanish-speaking Central American neighbors, most residents of Belize speak this language

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English

254
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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The so-called click languages, such as Hottentot, are native to this continent

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Africa

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| It was the basic literary language of Italy as late as the 15th century

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Latin

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$1500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| What the Dalmatian, Gothic & Babylonian languages have in common

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dead languages

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Seemingly unrelated to any other language, “Euskara” is spoken by these people of the Pyrenees

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Basques

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$None ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| To have taken the 1st modern IQ test in 1905 you had to understand this language

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French (the Binet-Simon test)

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This language was originally based on a form of Dutch called Hollands, but has words from Khoi & Zulu

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Afrikaans

260
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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This modern language has its roots in the vernacular of Tuscany

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Italian

261
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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| This is the only European language where adjectives don’t change to agree with the nouns they modify

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English

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Q

$1500 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| 2 of 3 independent South American countries where Spanish is not an official language

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Brazil, Guyana, Suriname

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The official languages of the east African country of Djibouti are Arabic & this

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French

264
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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Though Polish is a Slavic language, it uses this alphabet

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Latin (or Western)

265
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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Country whose languages include Gujarati, Assamese & Punjabi

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India

266
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$1100 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| At his 1969 investiture at Caernarvon Castle, Prince Charles spoke these 2 languages

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English & Welsh

267
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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The only country whose official language is Catalan is this small one in the Pyrenees Mountains

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Andorra

268
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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Most people of this small European nation speak Letzeburgisch, a German dialect

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Luxembourg

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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Dante was the first major writer to write in this modern language

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Italian

270
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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Along with English & Spanish, its other official language is a form of Tagalog

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the Philippines

271
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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Israel’s official languages are Hebrew & this

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Arabic

272
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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Official language of both the People’s Republic & Taiwan, it’s the most common Chinese dialect

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Mandarin

273
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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Language of ancient India that’s related to Greek & Latin

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Sanskrit

274
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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Since they’re no longer spoken, Sumerian, Etruscan & Gothic are given this lifeless name

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dead languages

275
Q

$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Besides English, the play “Children of a Lesser God” makes use of this special language

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sign language

276
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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The film “Shoah” credits translation of this language to “Mrs. Apfelbaum”

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Yiddish

277
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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Foreign language in which U.S. commercials for both Fibre Trim & Perma Soft were done

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French

278
Q

$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Language that originally gave us the word “language”

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Latin

279
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$200 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| The original of Islam’s sacred book, the Koran, was written in rhyme in this language

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Arabic

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$400 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Language of the world’s oldest republic, tiny San Marino

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Italian

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$600 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Twi, Ga, Fang, & Bubi are languages spoken on this continent

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Africa

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$800 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| Unlike most European languages, Bulgarian doesn’t use the Roman alphabet, but uses this one

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Cyrillic

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$1000 ||| Category: LANGUAGES ||| In 1821, he became only person to invent, unaided, an entire alphabet & numbering system

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Sequoyah

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