AP Human Geography Language

Dialects developed within England primarily because

• the Viking invaders did not remain long in England.
• different Germanic invaders settled in different regions.
• the Normans invaded from the south.
• British Received Pronunciation became the standard dialect.

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CCSS.RF.1.4

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3E

Which of the following will encompass the largest number of speakers?

• language group
• language family
• language branch
• dialect

Complete the following analogy: Argentina is to Spanish as

• Brazil is to Portuguese.
• Guyana is to Spanish.
• Suriname is to French.
• Panama is to English.

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

In both the Kurgan and Anatolian theories of Indo-European, the language family spread via __________ diffusion.

• contagious

• expansion

• hierarchical

• relocation

Globally, today’s predominant lingua franca is

• Swahili

• English

• Spanish

Folk culture is most likely to spread by

• expansion diffusion

• relocation diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

Modern communications methods have _________ of social customs.

• led to fragmentation
• increased the global uniformity 
• slowed the dissemination 
• had little effect on the spread

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CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following language branches is not a member of the Indo-European language family?

• Balto-Slavic
• Germanic
• Greek
• Caucasian

The primary reason why there are so many distinct languages in Africa is 

• The long periods of isolation between tribes
• The policies of the European colonial powers
• The migrations to Africa from Asia and Europe
• The major religious differences between tribes

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

 The second-largest language family is

• Indo-European
• Austronesian
• Sino-Tibetan
• Dravidian

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CCSS.RF.1.4

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.1.3

CCSS.RF.K.3

CCSS.RF.K.4