AP HuG: Chapter 5 Key Issue 1 C.F.U.

The contemporary distribution of languages around the globe is largely a result of...

• social media.

• the Internet.

• Rosetta Stone sales.

• migration

• high school requirements to learn a second language.

The current estimate of the number of languages spoken across the planet is approximately...

• less than 100.

• between 250 and 1,000 languages.

• between 1,500 and 3,000 languages.

• between 3,500 and 6,500 languages.

• over 7,000.

The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how...

• recently in time the languages were once the same.

• closely the speakers of each language live to one other.

• they correspond to the diffusion of free markets across much of the world.

• similar the cultures of the speakers of each language are.

• they all emerged at the same point in history, according to the Bible.

A collection of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a...

• dialect.

• language branch.

• language family.

• language group.

• language root.

An institutional language...

• describes Latin as the basis for much of the English vocabulary.

• describes the language of the leading spiritual groups.

• describes the language used in education, work and mass media.

• describes the language of the medical profession.

• describes the language used in meetings at the United Nations.

According to biologist Quentin Atkinson, the world's languages originated in...

• North America.

• South America.

• Europe.

• Asia.

• Africa.

When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the roots of the trees below the surface represent...

• dialects.

• language groups.

• language sects.

• language families.

• possible prehistoric superfamilies.

The two largest language families in the world are...

• Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic.

• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European.

• Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan.

• Balto-Slavic and Sino-Tibetan.

• Altaic and Nilo-Saharan.

The language family encompassing the languages of the People's Republic of China is...

• Indo-European.

• Indo-Iranian.

• Mandarin.

• Sino-Tibetan.

• Austro-Asiatic.

Which of the following is NOT true regarding language families?

• Turkish is the most widely spoken Altaic language.

• Migrants from Russia's Ural Mountains carried the Uralic language to Europe.

• Arabic and Farsi are considered the same language.

• More than 95 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa speak Swahili, Yoruba or Igbo.

• Quechua speakers are largely found in the Andean regions of South America.