How many vowels were probably present in the Indo-European protolanguage around 3,000 B.C.?
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
5 vowels
10 vowels
8 vowels
12 vowels
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of inflectional complexity did the Indo-European protolanguage exhibit?
Only gender variations
Limited to five cases
Possibly eight cases, three numbers, three genders
No inflectional changes
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which example demonstrates vowel grading in the Indo-European protolanguage?
grad, grade
Sing, sang
spoken, spoke
he, him
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the nature of word order in the Indo-European protolanguage?
Strictly fixed
Moderately flexible
Quite free
Completely random
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does Grimm's Law describe in the context of Proto-Germanic language development?
The transition of numerals into adjectives
The shift of voiceless stops to voiceless fricatives and other related changes
The evolution of verb conjugations
Changes in word order and sentence structure
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which phonological feature was stressed in Proto-Germanic words according to the image?
Last syllable of the word
Middle syllable of the word
First syllable or root syllable
Syllable before the last
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What phonological change occurred to the sound /*z/ in 200 A.D. West Germanic language?
It became /n/
It became /r/
It became /m/
It remained unchanged
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