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How Languages Change and Evolve

Authored by Clair McInnis

World Languages

6th - 8th Grade

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How Languages Change and Evolve
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What does it mean for two languages to be related?

They are spoken in the same country or region.

They are written in the same alphabet.

They evolved from the same older language.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is a proto-language?

A very primitive language.

The earliest known ancestor of a group of related languages

A basic form of a language as spoken by people learning it

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which of these words are most likely to be borrowed from another language?

Words for family members

Pronouns

Words for plants and animals

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is the difference between a language and a dialect?

There is no defined cutoff point

Dialects are always mutually understandable

A language must have official status in at least one country

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which is NOT a reason for linguistic divergence?

Migration and encountering different groups and environments

Political and historical events

Different brain structure among different groups of people

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