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APHUG Chapter 5 Languages
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1
How are languages preserved?
Preserved though government policies
Languages are preserved through written tradition.
Preserved though small tribes.
Preserved through oral tradition
2
Put these in order from the broadest to most specific?
Family, Group, Branch
Branch, Group, Family
Branch, Family, Group
Family, Branch, Group
3
What country is dominated by Indo-European speakers?
Turkey
Hungary
Finland
Russia
4
What is NOT true about the preservation of local languages?
In places, languages survive through isolation from others.
Some are saved due to the threat of dominant lingua francas.
Local languages are reversing the dominant lingua francas.
Some languages are deliberately being revived/preserved.
5
Which language and country is most similar to the relationship between Hindi and India?
Spanish and the Philippines
Austrian and Australia
Russian and Ukraine
Mandarin and China
6
where does the Balto Slavic predominate?
Eastern Europe
Southern Asia
Northern Africa
Russia
7
Which countries embrace multiple languages?
Nigeria
Switzerland
Africa
Belgium
8
Where does the Romance language predominate?
Eastern Europe
Central Asia
Southern Europe and Latin America
North Africa
9
Where are the majority of the major language family languages located?
North America
Europe
Asia
Africa
10
What are the four largest branches of Indo- European?
Romance, Indo-Iranian, Germanic, and Balto Slavic
Finnish, Finnic, Ugric, and Uralic
Uzbek, Altaic, Mongolian, and Tatar
Semitic, Chadic, Cushitic, and Berber
11
What ensured that Spanish and Portuguese would be diffused to the western part the New World?
The Treaty of Madrid
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Mexico
The Treaty of Lisbon
12
The Romanian language is most closely related to which of the following European languages?
Italian
Albanian
German
Russian
13
What language classification concept represents the largest number of speakers?
Language family
Language branch
Language group
Dialect
14
What is a creolized language?
A local language with at least 20 percent slang
Local language mixed with the language of a colonial power.
A local language mixed with another local language.
A local language mixed with English.
15
What is the most widely used lingua Franca?
German
English
French
Spanish
16
Why do multilingual countries have problems?
The market cannot negotiate due to separate languages.
Government officials cannot communicate
People have trouble navigating due to varying road sign.
Citizens cannot make a lot of friends.
17
Name the largest language family
Niger Congo
Balto Slavic
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
18
The language of international diplomacy is usually English. What language once was?
Italian
Spanish
German
French
19
Where does the Germanic language predominate?
South Africa
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Northern Europe and North America
South America and Noth Asia
20
The name of the boundary that seperates regions of different languages that are predominate?
isolated language
isogloss
creole
extinct language
21
Which language family is used in the Bible and Quran the holiest books of many world religions?
Indo-European
Austro-Asiatic
Afro-Asiatic
Sino-Tibetan
22
Which of the following locations does NOT have English as an official language?
India
Ireland
South Africa
United States
23
Dialect is the regional variation of a language distinguished by what?
Difference of spelling
Diffrence of vocab
Difference of pronunciation
24
Where is the Sino-Tibetan language most prominent?
North Africa
South America
West Europe
East Asia
25
What is the major language of the Afro-Asiatic family?
Hebrew
Amharic
Berber
Arab
