Evolution of English Language Quiz

What language family does Old English belong to?

• Celtic

• Romance

• Germanic

• Norse

When did the Norman invasion bring a massive amount of French and Latin vocabulary into the English language?

• 8th century

• 14th century

• 5th century

• 11th century

Which language family does English share systematic similarities with?

• Sino-Tibetan

• Dravidian

• Indo-European

• Semitic

What is the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European family?

• Old English

• Proto-Germanic

• Proto-Indo-European

• Old Norse

Where was Proto-Indo-European spoken about 6000 years ago?

• Modern day Egypt

• Modern day Brazil

• Modern day China

• Modern day Ukraine and Russia

What is the nature of the languages spoken in Europe prior to the arrival of Indo-European?

• Dravidian

• Semitic

• Sino-Tibetan

• Unknown

What is the language of Beowulf?

• Latin

• Old English

• Old Norse

• French

Which language family includes nearly all languages historically spoken in Europe?

• Sino-Tibetan

• Indo-European

• Dravidian

• Semitic

What is the language spoken by nearly 3 billion people around the world?

• English

• Hindi

• Spanish

• Mandarin

What is the language spoken by the Celtic languages it displaced in what is now Britain?

• Proto-Germanic

• Old Norse

• Old English

• Proto-Indo-European