English as a global language

There are claims that how many languages have only a single speaker?

• 48
• 46
• 47

English is eclipsed only by what language in terms of the actual number of speakers?

• Spanish
• Arabic
• Mandarin Chinese

Roughly how many languages are spoken in the world and what percentage of these are spoken by fewer than 100,000 people?

• 5,000
• 6,000
• 7,000

Language does not exist in a vacuum. The growth of different global languages is often reflected by what two things?

• the geography and history of different speaking groups
• the culture and history of different speaking groups

Do speakers of English as  second language outnumber those who speak it as a first language?

• No
• Yes

What are the only languages that do not change?

• English and Latin
• English and French
• Latin and Sanskrit

How many native languages does Africa and India have each?

• 1,000
• over 1,000
• 2,000

How many languages are spoken in all of  Europe west of Russia?

• 100
• 90
• fewer than 100

Define Esperanto

• an artificial universal language
• a universal language

Why does a language decline or even die out?

• language becomes extinct and the last remaining speakers die
• languages become extinct and people don't speake the language anymore