Unit 3 - Activity 3 - Historical Quiz

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

• language

• language family

• language branch

• language group

a collection of languages  related through a common ancestral language  that existed several thousand years ago.

• language

• language family

• language branch

• language group

The common ancestral (reconstructed) language is called...

an ancient parent language  from which a group of related languages have descended  through slow modification.

• Proto-Latin

• Proto-Indo-European

• Proto-Language

• language group

study of language history and change

• Comparative Linguistics

• Linguistics

• Ecology

• Philology

The process that we use to establish family connections between different languages is called...

• cognates

• homophones

• similar grammar

• spelling

a word in one language is a word in another language which has a similar form and is or was, used with a similar meaning.

• cognate

• homophone

• philology

• spelling

What are the names of the tribes that arrived England during the 5th century?

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Since the Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, what was the name of the first version of English language?

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What's the name of the event that starts the Middle English Era?

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