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9th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.

Language family

Official language

Syncretism

Pidgin language

Lingua franca

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A subgroup of a language family, with languages that share a more recent common ancestor.

language family

language group

lingua franca

literary tradition

language branch

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A___________ has no known historic or linguistic relationship with any other known language

Isolate or isolated language

Pidgin language

Logogram or ideogram

Language branch

Extinct language

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and have few differences in grammar and vocabulary.

Language groups

Dialects

Language branch

Assimilation

Isogloss

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

____________ is a common language used among speakers of different native languages usually for business or trade.

Lingua franca

Pidgin language

Acculturation

Creolized language

Bilinguality

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A ______________results from blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language. An example of this is Haitian Creole a blend of french and several African languages.

Lingua franca

Creole or Creolized language

Pidgin language

Literary tradition

Monolinguality

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.

Extinct language

Dialect

Bilinguality

Official language

Literary tradition

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