AP Chap 5 Language

When languages are depicted as leaves on tress, the truck of the tree represents?

• dialects

• language groups

• language families

• creollized lanuages

Which of the following was not a Germanic speaking people that influence the English language?

• Jutes

• Normans

• Saxons

• angles

Why is English the most widely spoken language in Canada and the Us?

• Viking explorations of the new world

• the norman conquest

• Internet

• British Colonialism

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

• Slavic

• Germanic

• Indo-Iranian

• Romance

What language family is French a member of?

• Austronesian

• sino-Tibetan

• Altaic

• indo-European

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

• contagious diffusion

• innovation

• Isolation

• distance decay

Which of the following is not a

Romance language?

• Romanian

• Portuguese

• Italian

• Greek

Under the rule of the Roman Empire, what was spoken by common people in Southern Europe?

• standard english

• vulgar Latin

• British Received pronuciation

• Spanglish

French Creole is a ____________ that combined two simplified languages to form a lingua franca.

• pidgin language

• offical

• logorams

• isolated language

Which of the following is NOT an official language of Switzerland?

• romansh

• French

• Italian

• Spanish