Language Families

Citizens of the United Kingdom speak the language of which language family?

• Slavic

• French

• Romance

• Germanic

What parent language do the Romance Languages come from?

• English

• Slavic

• Pyrenees

• Latin

This language family came from the ancient Roman Empire.

• Slavic

• English

• Germanic

• Romance

Italian, French, and Spanish are members of this language family.

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• English

If you traveled from London, England to Moscow, Russia, which two language families would you come in contact with?

• Slavic/Romance

• English/Romance

• Romance/Germanic

• Germanic/Slavic

Spanish is to Romance as ______ is to Germanic.

• French

• Russian

• Italian

• English

A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a

• dialect

• language branch

• language family

• language group

• language root

Which language family does the Russian language belong to?

• Romance

• Germanic

• Slavic

• Celtic

The Indo-European language family includes all of the following languages except:

• Hindi

• Mandarin

• Spanish

• Russian

Which language family is primarily spoken in the Middle East and North Africa?

• Afro-Asiatic

• Indo-European

• Sino-Tibetan

• Uralic