Unit #5 Languages

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9th Grade

70 Qs

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Unit #5 Languages

Unit #5 Languages

Assessment

Quiz

Geography

9th Grade

Hard

Created by

Brandon Reese

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70 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

From most distant to closest relatives, languages can be classified into which of the following orders?

families, branches, and groups.

branches, families, and groups.

branches, groups, and families.

families, groups, and branches.

groups, branches, and families.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Ethnologue estimates the world has more than ______ spoken languages.

10

1,000

7,000

10,000

7,000,000

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A language still used by older people but is NOT in the process of being transmitted to children is known as

an elderly language

a dying language

a threatened language

a vigorous language

a developing language

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A language used in education, work, mass media and government with a literary tradition is known as

an institutional language

a developing language

an official language

a dying language

a vigorous language

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language is a:

language family

language branch

language group

language tree

literary tradition

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Two-thirds of the people in the world speak a language which belongs to:

the Indo-European family

the Sino-Tibetan family

the Indo-European or Turkic family

the Sino-Tibetan or Turkic family

the Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan family

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A language spoken in daily use by people of all ages but lacks a literary tradition is known as:

a pidgin language

a developing language

a vigorous language

a language branch

a lingua franca

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