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?

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

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