Question 1

The charts or diagrams in this chapter indicate that the percentage of Austronesian language speakers in the world is greater than the percentage speaking ________ languages.

Accepted Answer

A)   Sino-Tibetan
B)   Dravidian
C)   Indo-European
D)   Niger-Congo
E)   Afro-Asiatic

Question 2

A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a

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A)   dialect.
B)   language branch.
C)   language family.
D)   language group.
E)   language root.

Question 3

Russian is part of what language branch?

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A)   Balto-Slavic
B)   Germanic
C)   Indo-Iranian
D)   Romance
E)   Altaic

Question 4

New Englanders use a different dialect of English than other Americans primarily because their ancestors came from different regions of England.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Both the Angles and the Normans contributed to the development of the English language, because they

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A)   spoke ancient English languages.
B)   invaded England.
C)   spoke languages derived from Latin.
D)   diffused English around the world.
E)   agreed to divide Ireland from England.

Question 6

-An analysis of the map of U.S. soft drink terminology shows that the word "Coke" is more common in

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A)   Illinois.
B)   Mississippi.
C)   New York.
D)   Oregon.
E)   California.

Question 7

All literary traditions are disappearing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Imagine that you were writing a science fiction book or a film script in which a fictitious extraterrestrial language was to be created (at least in part). Assuming that you wish to create a few phrases and terms of a fictitious language that does not resemble English and that sounds unlike most other languages in common use today, how would you begin to create this "non-Earth" language? Discuss some specific strategies or examples of terms or techniques that you would employ.

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Question 9

-The language maps in this chapter show that Tamil is an important language in

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A)   Bangladesh and India.
B)   Pakistan and India.
C)   Iran and Pakistan.
D)   India and Sri Lanka.
E)   Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Question 10

-The most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa is

Accepted Answer

A)   Khoisan.
B)   Niger-Congo.
C)   Nilo-Saharan.
D)   Afro-Asiatic.
E)   Altaic.

Question 11

According to the maps and diagrams in this chapter, the branch of Indo-European that includes Haitian Creole is

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A)   European.
B)   Romance.
C)   Indo-Iranian.
D)   Balto-Slavic.
E)   Germanic.

Question 12

When people who speak a given language migrate to a different location and become isolated from other members of their group

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A)   their language usually shows very little change even over a long period of time, despite the appearance of a small number of changes typical of different dialects.
B)   they immediately develop a literary tradition.
C)   isolation usually results in the differentiation of one language into dialects, followed eventually by two distinct languages.
D)   they lose their linguistic abilities.
E)   groups form multiple dialects.

Question 13

Gumbo and jazz are terms that originated in the English dialects of

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A)   New Englanders.
B)   African Americans.
C)   Jewish immigrants to the United States.
D)   Irish Americans.
E)   French Americans.

Question 14

In what ways does your dialect of American or British English differ from those of your classmates? From other English speakers that you have encountered? Provide several specific examples of vocabulary, accents, or other differences, and attempt to account for these differences in spatial terms (naming regions of origin). What geographic factors explain the similarities and differences in these dialects?

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Question 15

The Kurgans

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A)   conquered much of East Asia several thousand years ago.
B)   were a Germanic tribe that invaded England.
C)   were herders from the steppes of Central Asia.
D)   preserved Basque in present-day Spain.
E)   were the earliest speakers of Sino-Caucasian, which they diffused through conquest.

Question 16

English has achieved unprecedented acceptance globally due to

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A)   the refusal to use English in colonial and imperial expansion.
B)   the diffusion of command economies across much of the world.
C)   its role as the common language of a global economy and culture.
D)   the rise of folk culture and the decline of popular culture.
E)   the diffusion of religion from LDCs to MDCs.

Question 17

Franglais is

Accepted Answer

A)   the lingua franca of France.
B)   a dialect of French.
C)   the standard language of French.
D)   the use of English in the French language.
E)   a language used by French colonial administrations.

Question 18

English was spread around the world through the establishment of British colonies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

A form of a language spoken in a local area is a

Accepted Answer

A)   dialect.
B)   branch.
C)   family.
D)   group.
E)   root.

Question 20

Basque is spoken primarily in

Accepted Answer

A)   Brittany.
B)   the Swiss Alps.
C)   the Pyrenees Mountains.
D)   Barcelona, Spain.
E)   Liechtenstein.

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