HG CH 5 Language

Language is a major marker of identity that often unites members of the same ________, or people with similar cultural identity.

• corporation

• nation

• pidgin

___________ is a system of communication through speech, movement, sound, or symbols that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.

• Culture

• Language

• Religion

Language is diffused mostly through __________ diffusion.

• hierarchical

• relocation

• contagion

English is part of which language family?

• Sino-Caucasian

• Nostralic

• Austric

English is part of which language branch?

• Indo-European

• Sino-Tibetain

• Austronesian

Truck versus lorry, versus crosswalk and gas versus petrol are examples of

• dialect

• pidgin

• creole

__________ is a language mutually understood and commonly used to communicate by people who have different native languages.

• Lingua franca

• Pidgin language

• Official language

The leading lingua franca is

• Chinese

• French

• Spanish

• English

Everyone from the same place has the same accent.

• True

• False

One of the three original places English was first spoken in North American was

• Richmond, VA

• Plymouth, MA

• Columbia, SC