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Chapter 5 Quiz Review
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1
The mixing of German + English is known as
Denglish
Franglais
Germish
Gerglais
2
The Austronesian language family has origins from
Central Asia
Northeast Asia
Southeast Asia
South Asia
3
The second largest language family in the world by number of speakers is
Sino-Tibetan
Niger-Congo
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
4
Some trunks divide into several branches, which represent language branches.
False
True
5
All of the following are language
branches
within Indo-European except
Balto-Slavic
Germanic
English
Romance
6
The study of language logically follows ____________.
language branches
superfamilies
migration
sedentary farmers
7
The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were tribes that originated in present-day
Great Britain
Greece
Guatemala
Germany
8
On the continent of Africa, the greatest number of languages results from
transfer of Indo-European languages by missionaries
colonial influence
migration pattern from Asia + the Western Hemisphere
at least 5,000 years of minimal interaction among thousands of groups
9
A ______________ is commonly found in sub-Saharan Africa because it lacks a written language.
Vigorous language
Developing language
Literary tradition
Institutional language
10
How did English become so widespread in the world?
Germany colonization
Migration of Americans
Isolation
British colonization
11
The Afro-Asiatic language family is the most prevalent in which region of the world?
South Asia/Southeast Asia
Central Asia
North Africa/Southwest Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
12
There are approximately ___________ languages spoken in the world today.
5,000
8,000+
6,000
7,000
13
Madagascar is a great example of migration because it is part of the ___________ language family.
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Austronesian
Niger-Congo
14
Language families are displayed as leaves.
False
True
15
Below the surface on this chart are
Prehistoric superfamilies
Language families
Language branches
Language soil
16
Which theory is said to have occurred first:
Nomadic Warrior Theory
Sedentary Farmer Theory
17
The United States has English as the country's _____________
Vigorous language
Institutional language
Official language
Developing language
18
Chinese languages are written with
script
the alphabet
logograms
hieroglyphics
19
____________ is the most widely used language family in the Western Hemisphere other than Indo-European.
Afro-Asiatic
Japanese
Sino-Tibetan
Quechuan