Ch 6 Language Review

Dialects are most often marked by actual differencesin

Franglais is

English is part of which language family

The language used as a 2nd language by millions of people in India, Africa and elsewhere is

The most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africais

A form of a language spoken in a local area is a

Official languages in Switzerland include all but which of the following?

Countries in which more than one language is in use are called:

Hawaii and Louisiana are examples of states with ___.

The Proto-Indo-European language homeland lies somewherenorth of the

The ultimate resolution to the problem of American language families will come from:

Dialects developed within England primarily because

English is part of which language branch?

The language that still survives today as adirect link to Europe’s pre-farming era is

Immigrants to which American colonies had the most diverse backgrounds?

Pidgin and creole languages are important unifying forces:

The first language spoken by Homo sapienssapiens, perhaps as long as 200,000 years ago was

When _ sends speakers of a language far from their home their lang is likely to undergo change.

____ of internet content is in English

The Icelandic language has changed less than anyother Germanic language because of

Hebrew is an example of

Both the Angles & Normans contributed to the development of the English language, because they

Chinese is written in the form of

A tremendous number of name changes occurred for cities after the:

The linguistic map of Nigeria reflects extreme fragmentation with nearly ___ languages spoken.

The world country with the most official languages is

The two largest language families in the world are

The second most widely spoken language family in Europe is

Group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages 

Which country has a rather sharp division between Flemish speakers and Walloon speakers

The language family encompassing the languages of the People's Republic of China is

The four most frequently spoken branches of Indo-European include all but

The two most important languages in South America are

Germanic invaders of England included which tribe

Evolution & diffusion of the Proto-Indo-Euro language occurred over a period of __ yrs at most.

Which of the following pairs of languages are NOT mutually intelligible?

An Indo-European language is spoken in which of these European countries

Basque is spoken primarily in

The most widely spoken Indo-European language is

Which group of the Germanic family is extinct?

The crucial element in language is -_____

English is part of which language group?

Which of the following is not a Romance language?

isogloss is 

The predecessor of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit:

The most widely spoken language in Brazil is

As concerns an official language, the United States

A creolized language is

The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from

The lingua franca of East Africa is:

The most widely used Indo-European language today is

The second-largest language family is ____.

Belgium is a ___________ speaking country

British and American English differ in all but which of the following?

The two theories of the Proto-Indo-Europeanlanguage dispersal are the conquest theory and

A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs is called 

The language in which ancient Indian religious and literary texts were written was:

Standard Italian is the version of the language spoken in

The African country that is a colonial creation of almost unimaginable linguistic diversity is:

Urdu is the most important language of

In technically advanced societies there is likely to be 

When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the rootsof trees below the surface represent

Early in the twentieth century, a major effort was launched to create a world language called

Brittany in western France shows the persistence of Breton in the _____ subfamily.

The Flemings and Walloons speak languages belonging to different

First speakers of the language that evolved into English were tribes that lived in present-day

Linguist Joseph Greenberg proposes that there are only__indigenous American language families.

Language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages. 

Persian,Pashto and Baluchi are all part of the __________ branch of the language tree

A literary tradition is 

When languages are depicted as leaves on trees,the trunks of the trees represent 

A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a 

The systematic study of the origin and meaning of place names is called

English is the most important language in North America primarily because of

Russian is part of what language branch?