APHuG Language

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The current distribution of languages around the world is largely a result of

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migration

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Which of the following is closest to the current estimate of the number of languages spoken globally? 100, 1,250, 4,500, 5,200, 7,100

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7,100

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Which of the following is the BEST example of a literary tradition? Options: the diffusion of television and radio broadcasts, the religious rituals and traditions of ancient European civilizations, the classification system used by Ethnologue, the historical documents and religious texts of the ancient Maya that were partly destroyed by Spanish conquest, the variety of dialects in a language used in obscure examples of spoken poetry.

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the historical documents and religious texts of the ancient Maya that were partly destroyed by Spanish conquest

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

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language family

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What are the two largest language families in the world?

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Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four most frequently spoken branches of Indo-European?
Balto-Slavic,
Celtic,
Indo-Iranian,
Romance,
Germanic

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Celtic

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The most widely spoken language in the world is

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Mandarin

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Which language is NOT a romance language? Romanian, Italian, Greek, French, Spanish

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Greek

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Russian is part of what language branch?

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Balto-Slavic

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Which of the following groups did NOT influence the development of modern English? Normans, Vikings, Germanic tribes, Celts, Spaniards

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Spaniards