APHG Language

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How many languages are there in the world altogether?

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About 7000

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Which group of languages does English belong to? Options: Slavic, Romanic, Germanic, Finno-Ugric

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Germanic

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Which of the following will encompass the largest number of speakers? Options: language group, language family, language branch, dialect

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language family

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Russia uses the following writing system: Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin, Georgia.

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Cyrillic

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Major branches of the Indo-European Language Family are: English, Spanish, Hindi; Semitic, Chadic, Berber; Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic.

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Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic

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Italian is a

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Romance Language

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Toponymy is the study of

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place names

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A condition in which many languages are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people, is called

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linguistic fragmentation

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Which term best describes the geographic boundary of a particular linguistic feature? Options: Toponym, Choropleth interval, Linguistic hearth, Isogloss

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Isogloss

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A highly simplified language developed between two heterogeneous groups for the purpose of basic inter-group communication is a

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Pidgin language