Chapter 5 Reading Guide Quiz

(Page 2) A language used in education, work, mass media, and government

• official language

• institutional language

• vigorous language

• developing language

(Page 2) A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language

• language branch

• language group

• language family

(Page 3) Where does Quentin Atkinson believe all languages can be traced back to?

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• Australia

(Page 4) Where are Dravidian languages spoken?

• northern Tibet

• West Africa

• East Asia

• southern India

(Page 5) Approximately what percentage of the world's population speak a language belonging to the Indo-European language family?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 90%

(Page 5) English is part of which branch of the Indo-European language family?

• Romance

• Germanic

• Balto-Slavic

• Indo-Iranian

(Page 5) From what language did Romance languages originate?

• English

• Polish

• Greek

• Latin

(Page 6) The theory that the first Proto-Indo-European speakers were the Kurgan people in Russia - they spread their language westward to Europe through war and conquest

• Sedentary Farmer Theory

• Nomadic Warrior Theory

• The Mongolian Horde Theory

• None of these

(Page 7) Chinese languages uses ____, which are symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words.

• lingua franca

• pidgin characters

• logograms

• potstickers

(Page 8) In how many countries is English an official language?

• 58

• 5

• 75

• 97