GEOG 102 - Ch 6 - Language

_____ is apparently unrelated to any other language in the world. French Spanish Basque Dravidian Mandarin (Chinese)

Basque

The official language of Nigeria is Yoruba. Ibo. Hausa. English.

English

The language with the most native speakers in the world is Spanish. Mandarin Chinese. French. Hindi. English.

Mandarin Chinese.

The predominant world lingua franca for business is French. Spanish. Japanese. English. Russian.

english

The family of languages known as the Indo-European family contains languages spoken by approximately ________ of the world population. 70% 25% 48% 30%

48%

There are approximately _________ languages on the earth today. 6000-7000 3000 1400 100000 600-700

6000-7000

The language of the Quran is Hebrew. Arabic. Farsi. Urdu.

Arabic

The languages that do not use phonetic alphabets are used in religious documents. China and Japan. Greece and Rome. aboriginal cultures.

China and Japan.

Which of the following languages has become a lingua franca of approximately 378 million people as a first language, 743 million as a second language. English Spanish Chinese French

English

Which of the following European languages are most common in Africa today? Spanish and French German and French Dutch, German, and English English and Spanish French and English

French and English

Which of the following languages is NOT part of the Uralic language family? Hungarian Gaelic Estonian Finnish

Gaelic

Which of the following is true concerning lingua francas? Swahili is a lingua franca of East Africa. They are usually spoken by the elite only. They are all a mixture of different languages. They are the official dialect of their respective languages.

Swahili is a lingua franca of East Africa.

The hearth area for Indo-European languages was probably located in the Italian peninsula. South Asia. Northwestern Europe. North Africa. Turkey or near the Caspian Sea

Turkey

A creole language is a language spoken in Louisiana. a language used to describe food. a language that does not have a grammar. a pidgin that has survived long enough to become a native language.

a pidgin that has survived long enough to become a native language.

The global spread of English is primarily the result of British involvement in World War II. Australian currency production. American media influences. colonization by the British Empire.

colonization by the British Empire.

All languages are written with alphabets. true. false

false

Finnish and Estonian are Dravidian languages. (true / false)

false

Swahili is a mixture of North African languages and French that serves as a lingua franca in much of West Africa today. true./false

false

The isolation of groups of people has little to do with the formation of different languages. true/ false

false

The language of Madagascar is related to the languages of Africa. true/ false

false

Languages that are related by descent from a common protolanguage make up a language group. family of dialects. language region. language family. cluster of languages.

language family.

Official policies and social attitudes may target ________ as potentially disloyal or dangerous to the rest of the nation. minority politicians minority ethnic groups minority language speakers minority races

minority language speakers

Globalization is __________ the world's linguistic heritage. increasing not affecting reducing enhancing

reducing

In polyglot states, all spoken languages have equal economic and social standing. the language that is native to the region is the most important for economic advancement. states grant legal equality to more than one language. There are no polyglot states, so the issue is mute.

states grant legal equality to more than one language.

English is one of more than 20 officially-recognized languages in India. true /false

true

Linguistic cultural integration often reflects the historical dominance of one group over the other. true/ false

true

Swahili and English both serve as lingua francas throughout East Africa. True/False

true

The major nonalphabetic forms of writing are Chinese and Japanese. true/ false

true

The most important factor in the divergence (separation) of languages is isolation. true/ false

true

The principal official languages of Africa are often those of the continent's former European rulers. true/false

true