Exploring Culture: Language

Approximately _____ different languages are spoken in Africa.

1,000

The number of languages spoken worldwide is between __________.

5,000 and 6,000

The language of Afrikaans was influenced by all of the following languages except __________.

American Indian languages

Which of the following statements about language in Canada is true?

Canada's government wants to preserve French within the province of Quebec.

Which of the following languages is spoken by the most people in the world today?

Chinese

The English language is part of which language family?

Indo-European

If we were to examine a vocabulary word for two languages in the same language family (for example, English and German), which of the following would be the most likely result?

The spelling of the two words might be similar, and some sounds might be the same.

English and Punjabi belong to the same language family.

True

Language shapes culture, and culture shapes language.

True

Haitian Creole developed through the process of language __________.

convergence

Quebecois French __________.

diverged from Parisian French

Languages are grouped into families based on __________.

origin, sound, and words