EXERCISES

Sounds familiar, but …

What do the following Estonian words mean?

Test your knowledge

Test your knowledge of Uralic languages

1. How many languages are there estimated to be in the world?

• around 700
• around 250,000
• around 7,000
• around 1,000,000

2. How many Uralic languages are there?

•  5–10
•  150–170
•  400
•  30–50

3. Which of these is not a Uralic language?

•  Livonian
•  Mari
•  Poke (a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
•  Selkup

4. Which is the northernmost people in Eurasia?

•  Finns
•  Norwegians
•  Saami
•  Nganasans

5. Which is the largest Uralic language in terms of the number of speakers?

•  Hungarian
•  Estonian
•  Udmurt
•  Finnish

6. Which of these is not a name of a month in Votic?

•  Maija
•  Juuli
•  Augusti
•  Martti