English Language

What major event introduced many French words into English?

• The Industrial Revolution

• The American Revolution

• The signing of the Magna Carta

• The Norman invasion

Which group brought the Germanic language to the British Isles?

• The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

• The Normans

• The Romans

• The Vikings

What language family does Old English belong to?

• Slavic

• Celtic

• Germanic

• Romance

What is the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European family?

• Old Norse

• Proto-Indo-European

• Proto-Germanic

• Latin

How many people around the world speak languages shaped by 6,000 years of history?

• 1 billion

• 2 billion

• 3 billion

• 4 billion