Human Geography, Unit 3, Quiz 2

If you traveled to the Iberian Peninsula, which language family would you experience while you were there?

• Germainc
• English
• Romance
• Slavic

How many languages are there in the world?

• 7,000
• 8,000
• 9,000
• 10,000

Languages that are similar to each other are called as_____

• kingdom
• class
• families

Which country has the largest number of languages?

• China
• England
• Papua New Guinea
• Brazil

What is the first largest language in the world?

• English
• Spanish
• Chinese
• Hindi

The two largest language families in the world are

• Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic.
• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European.
• Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan.
• Altaic and Nilo-Saharan.

When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the trunks of the trees represent

• dialects
• language groups.
• language families.
• language sects.

The diagrams in this chapter show that the percentage of Sino-Tibetan speakers in the world is less than the percentage speaking ________ languages.

• Austronesian
• Indo-European
• Dravidian
• Altaic

According to the maps and diagrams in this chapter, the Germanic invaders of England included which groups or tribes?

• Germans, Normans, and Danes
• Brittans, Normans, and WelshBrittans, Normans, and Welsh
• Irish, Welsh, and English
• Angles, Jutes, and Saxons

English is part of which language group?

• East Germanic
• North Germanic
• West Germanic
• Semitic