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|12. |There are ___ principal language families of the world. |
|A) |10 |
|B) |15 |
|C) |20 |
|D) |25 |
|13. |The most widely used Indo-European language today is |
|A) |English. |
|B) |German. |
|C) |Spanish. |
|D) |Chinese. |
|14. |The language most widely used as a second language by hundreds of millions of people in India, Africa and elsewhere is |
|A) |Spanish. |
|B) |French. |
|C) |Arabic. |
|D) |English. |
|15. |The predominant languages spoken on Madagascar are not of an African language family, but belong to |
|A) |Indo-European family. |
|B) |Sino-Tibetan family. |
|C) |Dravidian family. |
|D) |Austronesian family. |
|16. |Latin octo (eight) became Italian otto, Spanish ocho, and French huit. This is an example of ____________ over time in a |
| |language family. |
|A) |deterioration |
|B) |sound shift |
|C) |dialect development |
|D) |isogloss shift |
|17. |Two Russian scholars have established the core of what they believe is a pre-Proto-Indo-European language named |
|A) |Nostratic. |
|B) |Anatolian. |
|C) |Etruscan. |
|D) |Austronesian. |
|18. |The language tree diagram of language divergence has some branches with dead ends. These represent |
|A) |standardized or non-changing languages. |
|B) |language subfamilies. |
|C) |isolated languages. |
|D) |extinct languages. |
|19. |The Proto-Indo-European language homeland lies somewhere north of the |
|A) |Mediterranean Sea. |
|B) |Baltic Sea. |
|C) |Black Sea. |
|D) |Sea of Okhotsk. |
|20. |The two theories of the Proto-Indo-European language dispersal are the conquest theory and |
|A) |the spread of agriculture. |
|B) |massive migration. |
|C) |extensive trade routes. |
|D) |missionary activity. |
|21. |The Indo-European language family prevails on the map of Europe. Which country listed below has a language which is not in the |
| |Indo-European family? |
|A) |France |
|B) |Italy |
|C) |Iceland |
|D) |Hungary |
|22. |Subsequent migrations and empire building caused the decline and marginalization of this subfamily which had brought |
| |Indo-European languages to Europe 3,000 years ago. |
|A) |Romance |
|B) |Germanic |
|C) |Celtic |
|D) |Turkic |
|23. |Brittany in western France shows the persistence of Breton in the _____ subfamily. |
|A) |Romance |
|B) |Germanic |
|C) |Celtic |
|D) |Slavic |
|24. |Bantu migrations marginalized this once widespread African language family which now is found only in dry regions of |
| |southwestern Africa. |
|A) |Niger-Congo family |
|B) |Khoisan family |
|C) |Afro-Asiatic family |
|D) |Sudanic Subfamily |
|25. |The linguistic map of Nigeria reflects extreme fragmentation with nearly ____ languages spoken. |
|A) |15 |
|B) |25 |
|C) |200 |
|D) |400 |
|26. |Nigeria chose __________ as its official language upon independence. |
|A) |northern Hausa |
|B) |southwestern Yoruba |
|C) |southeastern Ibo |
|D) |English |
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