Case of the Disappearing Words Review

The number of languages currently in use is...

• Declining

• Increasing

• Stable

A critically endangered language is one where it is spoken regularly indoors but not much outdoors.

• True

• False

To help a language make a comeback, cultures have...

• Created apps where they can text in their native language

• Created recordings of native speakers using the language

• Opened schools where only the native language is used

• All of the above

What did Eliezer Ben-Yehuda do to help bring back the Hebrew language? Select the 2 correct answers!

• Wrote religious texts in Hebrew

• Created Hebrew words for modern things

• Convinced teachers to hold classes in Hebrew

• Founded a nation that spoke Hebrew

Able to speak or write with ease

• Author

• Linguist

• Predict

• Fluent

A person who studies how languages work

• Doctor

• Linguist

• Language

• Teacher

Pronounce means to...

• Write words correctly

• Reading a word correctly

• Speak a word correctly

• Recalling a word meaning correctly

Which sentence best shows the meaning of 'lecture'?

• The teacher lectured the students on their behavior after they had a substitute.

• The girl lectured her ice cream cone.

• As she strolled through the art museum, she couldn't help but lecture the beautiful paintings.

• The stand up comedian lectured the audience with a series of funny jokes.

What quote from "The Case of the Disappearing Words" suggests that studying another language can help people appreciate ideas that their own language does not have words for?

• The Seri word moosni hant cooit (mohs nee ahnt koh eet),meaning “green turtle that descends,” revealed something no one else knew—that green turtles hibernate, or overwinter, on the sea floor.

• In Welsh, it rains not cats and dogs, but old wives and walking sticks.

• The elegant Seri term for a car muffler means “into which the breathing descends.”

• If your neighbor pops in every day, you might be dealing with what the Ojibway call mawadishiweshkiwin, the habit of making visits too often.

From the article, what is one important reason people stop speaking a language?

• They want to try something new

• They don't like their language anymore

• They don't have books written in their language

• They want to be accepted by others