Language Quiz

This Romance Language would dominate the highlighted regions.

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Italian

The Lingua Franca that dominates the use of the internet is...

• English
• Chinese
• Spanish
• Japanese

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

• lingua franca
• language group
• language family
• literary tradition

What caused the distribution of English language speakers throughout the world?

• Native English Speakers
• British colonization
• Decision to make English the lingua franca
• U.S. World dominance

A language ____________ is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
Hint: The trunk of the tree

• branch
• family
• dialect
• group

What is the largest language family in terms of spoken by most people?

• Afro-Asiatic
• Indo-European
• Sino-Tibetan
• Austronesian

a language developed from a mixture of different languages, usually through colonization. 

• creole language
• mix language
• hybrid language

a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning

• literary tradition
• writing
• language

the language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps...

• creole language
• pidgin language
• official language
• standard language

A regional variation of a standard language is called a:

• accent
• dialect
• isogloss
• lingua franca