Language Assessment

What is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning called?

• language
• literary tradition
• dialect
• language group

What is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language or root called?

• language group
• language dialect
• language family
• language branches

What is the largest language family in the world?

• Afro-Asiatic
• Niger-Congo
• Sino-Tibetan
• Indo European

Where have more than 1,000 distinct languages been documented with thousands of dialects as well?

• Africa

• South Americ

• North America

• Europe

What is the largest language family in North Africa, SW and Central Asia?

• Romance
• NIger-Congo
• Afro-Asiatic
• Indo-Iranian

What branch of the Indo European language family is English in?

• Germanic
• Afro-Asiatic
• Indo-Iranian
• Balto-Slavic

Where is the Balto-Slavic language family primarily found?

• Southern South America
• SW Asia
• Northern Australia
• Eastern Europe

What is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation called?

• literary tradition
• dialect
• isogloss
• isolated language

What is the term for a language of international communication?

• dialect
• lingua franca
• literary tradition
• official language

What is the term for a language that is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.

• retired language
• extinct language
• isolated language
• dead language