Monday: SS6G10 Homework

Match each language with its language group.

• Germanic

  languages

• German

• Romance

  languages

• Portuguese

• Slavic

  languages

• Italian

• Germanic

  languages

• Norwegian

• Romance

  languages

• Ukrainian

Match each language with its language group.

• Romance

  languages

• Polish

• Germanic

  languages

• Spanish

• Romance

  languages

• English

• Slavic

  languages

• Russian

• Slavic

  languages

• French

Slavic languages are predominantly found in which two regions?

• western Asia and North Africa

• eastern Europe and northern Asia

• western Europe and the Americas

• eastern Europe and western Asia

Why does Switzerland maintain four official national languages?

• Switzerland was the diplomatic center of Europe and maintained this status by ensuring that there were many workers that spoke each of the languages.

• Each language is the dominant language in one of the four regions that were historically separated from the others by natural boundaries such as rivers.

• The country was created by marriages that merged the territories of several noble European families that did not share common histories or languages.

• Switzerland has only been independent for a short period of its history and its national languages reflect the nations that ruled the region the longest.

Which of the following are NOT considered Romance languages? Select all that apply.

• English

• French

• Italian

• Russian

• Spanish

Which of the following are Germanic languages spoken in modern Europe? Select all that apply.

• Dutch

• English

• French

• Italian

• Polish

What alphabet do the East Slavic languages, such as Russian and Ukrainian, use?

• the Cyrillic alphabet

• the Greek alphabet

• the Hebrew alphabet

• the Roman alphabet