European Language Families

Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish are languages within this language family:

• Romance

• Germanic

• Slavic

• Spanish

This language family is found in Eastern Europe and Russia:

• Russian

• Slavic

• Romance

• Germanic

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

• Slavic

• Germanic

• Romance

• Italian

Ukranian, Polish, and Russian are examples of languages in which language family?

• Slavic

• Germanic

• Romance

• Eastern

Spanish is to Romance as __________ is to Germanic

• Italian

• English

• Russian

• French

The languages from this language group are based on Latin, the language of the ancient Roman Empire:

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• Latin

If you traveled from London, United Kingdom to Moscow, Russia, which two language families would you come in contact with?

• Romance then Slavic

• Slavic then Germanic

• Germanic then Romance

• Germanic then Slavic

English, German, Swedish, and Danish are examples of which language family?

• Romance

• Germanic

• Slavic

• American

This language family has the most native speakers.

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• English

If you traveled to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, you would most likely find local citizens speaking languages from which language family?

• Romance

• Germanic

• Slavic

• Ukrainian