Sociolinguistics: Quiz 2

1. What is the one word name coined by Majewicz which refers to dialect, subdialect, dialect cluster and langauge?

• ethnolects

• phylum

• branch

• isolate

2. Which of these languages belong to the East Slavic family of languages?

• Belarusian

• Kashubian

• Polish

• Ukrainian

3. Which of these languages belong to the Finno-Ugric family of languages?

• Finnish

• Hungarian

• Estonian

• Swedish

4. Which family of languages do Romanian, Catalan and Romansh belong to?

• Germanic languages

• Romance languages

• Celtic languages

• Slavic languages

5. Which of these languages was revitalised?

• Latin

• Greek

• Romansh

• Hebrew

6. Which of these types of languages are contact (mixed) languages?

• pidgin languages

• creole languages

• isolated languages

• agglutinative languages

7. Select all extalinguistic criteria which distinguish a language from a dialect:

• political status

• orthographic differences

• literary tradition

• translation of important books

8. Select all criteria which may be used to measure the prestige of a language:

• standardization

• vitality

• language change

• mixture