EDU 201 Chapter 4 Test

English, as we know it, developed in Britain and more recently in America and elsewhere around the world.

• True

• False

Indo-European is a matter of culture, not of genes.

• True

• False

We call it Proto Indo-European because at the beginning of historical times languages derived from it were spoken from Europe in the west to India in the east.

• True

• False

The term Indo-European has no racial connotations; it refers only to the culture of a group of people who lived in a relatively small area in early times and who spoke a more or less unified language out of which many languages have developed over thousands of years.

• True

• False

Early scholars classified languages as isolating, agglutinative, incorporative, and inflective.

• True

• False

_____ is from the Latin form of the name of Noah's eldest son.

• Semitic

• Hamitic

_____ is from the name of Noah's second son, Ham.

• Hamitic

• Semitic

Languages may be related to each other more distantly in macrofamilies, or superfamilies.

• True

• False

The Indo-European languages are either satem languages or _____ languages.

• Asterisk

• centum

An asterisk before a form indicates that it is a reconstruction based on comparative study.

• True

• False