AP Human Geography Languages Quiz

When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the trunk of the tree represents

• dialects

• language groups

• language families

• creolized languages

Which of the following was NOT a Germanic speaking people that influenced the English language?

• Angles

• Saxons

• Jutes

• Normans

Why is English the most widely spoken language in Canada and the U.S.?

• The Norman Conquest

• Viking Explorations of the New World

• British Colonialism

• The Internet

What branch of the Indo-European language family does English belong to?

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• Indo-Iranian

What language family is French a member of?

• Sino-Tibetan

• Austronesian

• Indo-European

• Altaic

Why did Basque survive despite being surrounded by Indo-European languages?

• contagious diffusion

• isolation

• innovation

• distance decay

Which of the following is NOT a Romance language?

• Italian

• Portuguese

• Romanian

• Greek

What does Colin Renefrew claim is the reason the Indo-European language spread?

• war

• conquest

• farming

• disease

What language is spoken in the northern part of Belgium?

• Flemish/Dutch

• French

• English

• German

What is NOT a factor in the creation of different dialects?

• pronunciation

• spelling

• vocabulary

• contagious diffusion