Unit 5 - Language

From most distant to closest relatives, langauges can be classified into...

• families, branches, groups

• branches, families, groups

• branches, groups, families

• families, groups, branches

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

• Indo-European and Balto-Slavic

• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

• Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan

• Balto-Slavic and Sino-Tibetan

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

• dialect

• language branch

• language family

• language group

A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a...

• dialect

• language branch

• language family

• language group

A language used by the government for business and officail documents is a(n)...

• lingua franca

• official language

• literary tradition

• creole

Sino-Tibetan is an example of...

• a language family

• a language branch

• a language group

• official language

Which of the following is the largest language family?

• Balto-Slavic

• Indo-European

• Sino-Tibetan

• Afro-Asiatic

A literary tradition is...

• a form of language used for official government business

• a form of a language spoken in a particular area

• a collection of languages related to each other

• the written form of a language

• the variety of dialects in a language

Most languages with a literary tradition use one of the following principal writing systems...

• Cyrillic, Latin, Chinese, Arabic

• Greek, Latin, Chinese, Germanic

• Latin, Arabic, Chinese, Indo-European

• Latin, Chinese, English, Greek

Which of the following is one of the four language branches that is used less extensively?

• Germanic

• Romance

• Celtic

• Afro-Asiatic