Unit 3- Culture Prep Exam Review

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Which of these modern languages spread globally as a result of religion?
Options: English and Arabic, Mandarin, French, Spanish.

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English and Arabic

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The principal concentration of French-speaking North Americans is in

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Quebec

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Which statement about the diffusion of the English and Chinese languages is true?

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English has diffused worldwide, while Chinese is spoken mostly in China.

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Nearly half of the people in the world speak a language from this language family: Niger-Congo, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European.

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Indo-European.

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A collection of languages within a language branch that share a recent common origin and have relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary is a

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language group.

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One culture that uses an ideographic method of writing is

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China.

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An isogloss is

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a boundary between language regions.

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Dialects are local variants in language that differ in their: vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation.

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all of the above

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A common language that is used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce is called a

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lingua franca.

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Which statement about official languages is true? Options: Official languages are always spoken by the majority of citizens of a country., Official languages are the language of the largest cultural group of a country., Each country can only have one official language., Official languages are used by the government for use in its daily business.

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Official languages are used by the government for use in its daily business.