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The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were tribes that lived in present day

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Denmark

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Franglish is

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The use of English in the French language

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The Kurgans

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May have been the first speakers of an Indo-European language

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Collectively, Indic languages constitute the world's second largest language group. T/F

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True

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The second most widely spoken language family in Europe is

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Uralic

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From where did the four Scandinavian language derive

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Old Norse

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Urdu is the most important language of

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Pakistan

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A lingua franca is

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A language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages

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Basque is spoken primarily in

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The Pyreness Mountains

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African languages are distinguished by the fact that

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Few are spoken by more than one million people

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Approximately ¾ of the Chinese people speak Cantonese T/F

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False

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The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from

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Thoughts of years of isolation between tribal groups

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An Indo-European language is spoken in which of these European countries

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Bulgaria

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The Flemings and Walloos speak languages belonging to different

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Language branches

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Hebrew is an example of a

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Revived language

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As in Hindi, the five different Chinese languages are written the same way. T/F

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True

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How has Switzerland remained at peace with four or five different languages within their borders

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Switzerland has a decentralized government

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There are as many ways to write Hindi as there are ways to speak it. T/F

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False

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

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Invaded England

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English is the most important language in North America primarily because of

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The diffusion of English colonies

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English is a language in the West Germanic group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family. T/F

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True

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Indo-European divided into different branches because of isolation of different speakers. T/f

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True

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Which of the following language families belong to India: Austro-Asiatic, Sino Tibetan, Indo-European, Dravidian, all of the above

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All of the above

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English is part of which language branch

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Germanic

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Pronunciation has changed more in England than in the United States. T/F

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True

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New Englanders use a different dialect of English than other Americans because they came from different regions of England. T/F

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True

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How do the structures of Chinese and Japanese language differ?

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Japanese uses two systems of phonetic symbols.

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A standard Arabic language has developed among the 230 millions speakers because

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Of the influence of the Quran, newspapers and radio

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A literary tradition is

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The written form of a language

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English is part of which language group

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West Germanic

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The most important language family in Sub Saharan Africa is

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Niger-Congo

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What is one of the main elements of cultural diversity among the nearly one billion residents of India?

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Language

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The Korean language does not use ideograms. T/F

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True

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Which language family transcends (in importance) the number of speakers because its languages were used to write the holiest books of three major world religions: the Bible (New and Old Testaments), and the Quran

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Afro-Asiatic

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Which group of the Germanic family is extinct?

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East Germanic

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Roman Catholic missionaries devised the Vietnamese alphabet. T/F

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True

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According to the Anatolian hearth theory, Indo-European language diffused across Europe

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With the diffusion of agriculture

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English and German belong to the North Germanic language group. T/F

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False

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The branch of the Indo-European language family with the most speakers is English. T/F

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False

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The language family encompassing the languages of the People's Republic of China is

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Sino-Tibetan

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The Angles, Jutes, and Saxons were Celtic tribes who invaded England 1500 years ago

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False

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Official languages in Switzerland include all but which of the following; Italian, Flemish, Romansh, all of the above

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Flemish.

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Lingua franca languages include: Hindustaini, Swahili, Russian, all of the above, none of the above

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All of the above

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Immigrants to which American colonies had the most diverse backgrounds

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Middle Atlantic

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The second-largest language family is

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Sino-Tibetan

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Chinese is part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. T/F

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True

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Which Romance languages are primarily spoken in southwestern Europe and Latin America

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Portuguese

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Speakers of two different Indian languages who wish to communicate with each other can sometimes turn to English as a common language. T/F

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True

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Unlike most examples of expansion diffusion of English, recent changes in English have percolated up form common usage rather than directed down to the masses by the elite. T/F

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True

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The global distribution of languages results from a combination of which two geographic processes?

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Interaction and isolation and diffusion and migration

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The desire to use native language other than Russian was a major drive in the breakup of the Soviet Union a decade ago. T/F

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True

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The four most frequently spoken branches of Indo-European include all but: Romance, Celtic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian

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Celtic

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Which country speaks Austro-Thai: Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, all of the above

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All of the above

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A language of international communication is known as a lingua franca. T/F

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True

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Germanic, Romance, and Latin are all branches of Indo-European. T/F

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False

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Romanian is a Balto-Slavic language. t/f

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False

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In the Korean language, Chinese and Japanese words are the principal sources for creating new words to describe new technology and concepts. T/F

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True

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What treaty ensured that Spanish and Portuguese would be diffused to the western portion of the New World?

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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