Language Tree

The majority of people on Earth speak languages from which of the following two language families?

• Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian

• Sino-Caucasian and Nostralic

• Sino-Tibetan and Sino-Caucasian

• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

True or False: English is the official language of the U.S.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an outcome of the dominance of English as a lingua franca?

• it has eliminated the use of other languages as lingua francas worldwide

• people in smaller countries have no need to learn English

• it has made it less necessary for Americans to learn other languages

• 1. it protects endangered languages

With multiple dialects, one dialect may be recognized as the ______________, which is the dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication.

• Pronunciation

• Standard Language

• Dialect

• Isogloss

Choose the generalization about English dialects in the United States that is correct

• Regional differences in vocabulary continue to exist, as evidenced by the various terms that refer to soft drinks in various regions of the country.

• Although regional differences in pronunciation exist, it is impossible to identify isoglosses based on words used in different regions.

• Eastern dialects are divided broadly into Old English and Celtic

• Over the years, the major dialect differences in the United States have gradually collapsed into fewer categories and the language has become more uniform

Indo-European is the most widely used language family in all of the following EXCEPT

• Europe

• Africa

• South America

• South Asia

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native

• Pidgin Language

• Lingua Franca

• Logograms

• 1. Spanglish

Which of the following is the most common language used on the internet?

• English

• Chinese

• French

• Russian

Roughly how many languages are spoken in the world?

• 20,000

• 7,000

• 200

• 1500

What language branch does English come from?

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• Celtic