3.7 Diffusion of Religion & Language 2019

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

• language group
• language family
• language branch
• dialect

Which of the following is not a Romance language? 

• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Complete the following analogy: southern Europe is to Romance as

• southwestern Europe is to Iberian.
• eastern Europe is to West Germanic.
• eastern Europe is to Balto-Slavic.
• southeast Europe is to Greek.

 The second-largest language family is

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

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

English is part of which language branch?

• Indo-Iranian
• Romance
• Germanic
• Dravidian

A form of a language spoken in a local area is a

• group
• dialect
• family
• branch

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which of the following terms best describes the geographical boundary of one particular linguistic feature?

• language border

• toponym

• linguistic hearth

• isogloss

What is the correct order for language?

• family, language, branch, dialect, group

• branch, family, language, group, dialect

• family, branch, group, language, dialect

• language, family, branch, group, dialect

In which of the following countries is one most likely to encounter speakers whose native tongue belongs to the Saharan language family?

• Kuwait

• Chad

• Turkey

• Mongolia