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AP HG Part 5 Review (Language)
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This game is a review over the four key issues in Part 5 on Language.
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1
Which of the following best factors into the variance of subdialects in the USA?
geographic area and space
the emergence of Native American language preservation
rise of the social media
isolation of ethnicities
2
Which is the single-largest language group?
Hindi
Mandarin
Spanish
English
3
What percentage of the world's people speak 1 of the 2 most-spoken language families?
86%
67%
33%
41%
4
Which of the following is not one of the major ways in which dialects vary?
Language spelling
Language family
Language vocabulary/words used
Language pronunciation
5
Which is known as a "language of international communication"?
Koro Aka
Proto-Indo-European
Gaelic
Lingua Franca
6
Which of the following is NOT one of the big 4 branches of the Indo-European language family?
Romance
Germanic
Arabic
Balto-Slavic
7
How many dialect categories are commonly accepted within the USA according to the text?
20
10
4
1-2
8
Which number represents the number of languages in the world today according to Ethnologue?
about 500
less than 1000
about 3000
nearly 7000
9
What is the proper order of largest to smallest in terms of language?
Family--> Branch--> Group
Group-->Branch-->Family
Group --> Family --> Branch
Family--> Group --> Branch
10
Which of the following is NOT a first or second most spoken language in the USA and Canada?
French
Spanish
English
Hindi
11
What does an isogloss illustrate?
Language Families
Conquest of Language Groups
Difference in Dialects
Migration of Language
12
In the USA today, which is the biggest difference in dialects?
language family
vocabulary
pronunciation
spelling
13
What accounts for why a marginal, little-spoken language might be preserved and practiced?
local cultural identity
business world values
social media trends
globalization pressures
14
Why can the origins and the branching of languages only be traced so far?
because we lack an historical record
because most older languages are extinct
because linguists cannot differentiate languages
because every language diffused the same
15
What is the perspective of the "Proto-Indo-European" theory?
that eventually there will be only one world language
that there's really only one language tree
one (disputed) single language hearth region
pre-recorded history reveals multiple regions of language
16
Which of the following are the two biggest language families?
Afro-Asiatic and Indo-European
Sino-Tibetian and Austronesian
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetian
Austronesian and Indo-European
17
What does NOT explain the diffusion of English?
UN policies making English one of the UN-official language
overseas trade dominated by English-speaking nations
conquest of the British Empire
migration of people from Great Britain around the world
18
A language that no longer has speakers is:
ENDANGERED
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
ISOLATED
EXTINCT
19
Which area is not dominated by the Indo-European language family?
North America
Europe
China
Australia
20
Which area is dominated by the Sino-Tibetian language family?
Asia
South America
North America
Africa
21
Which group did not have an impact upon the development of the English language?
Jutes
Angles
Slavic
Saxons
22
What is NOT true of isolated languages?
some are considered endangered
they are isolated due to physical geography at times
they include extinct languages
they include indigenous languages in North and South America
23
In an effort to unify its people some countries attempt to____________________the language.
institutionalize
diversify
indemnify
standardize
24
What is a type of language where two languages are mixed together for the purpose of communication?
Traditional
Official
Pidgin
Standardized
