Language Family Quiz

What is a language family?

• A single language spoken by a large population

• A language isolate

• A group of languages that have no common origin

• A group of languages that share a common origin language

Which language family includes Spanish, Italian, and French?

• Romance languages

• Indo-European languages

• Sino-Tibetan family

• Germanic languages

What is the protolanguage?

• A language isolate

• The language that generated other languages in its family

• A language spoken in ancient Rome

• A language spoken by a small community

Which language family includes Mandarin Chinese?

• Romance languages

• Indo-European languages

• Sino-Tibetan family

• Germanic languages

Which group of languages is part of the West Germanic group?

• German, English, and Dutch

• Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian

• Gothic and extinct languages

• Tibetan and Burmese

What is the most widely spoken language in the Sino-Tibetan family?

• Tibetan

• Burmese

• Mandarin Chinese

• Thai

Which language family is the world's second largest?

• Germanic languages

• Sino-Tibetan family

• Romance languages

• Indo-European languages

Which language family includes languages like Swedish and Icelandic?

• Indo-European languages

• Germanic languages

• Sino-Tibetan family

• Romance languages

What is the origin of most languages spoken in modern Europe and parts of Asia?

• Indo-European languages

• Germanic languages

• Romance languages

• Sino-Tibetan family

What is the Latin word that later gave rise to the name 'Romance languages'?

• Romanicus

• Gothicus

• Italicus

• Germanicus