10/9 lyntic

Nearly half the world's population speaks a language from this language family:

• Indo-European

• Japanese

• Austronesian

• Niger-Congo

• Germanic

All of the following are Romance languages EXCEPT:

• Spanish

• Italian

• Portuguese

• English

• French

One culture that uses an ideographic or, a logographic, method of writing is

• India

• Arabic

  
  

• Chinese

• English

• German

Which two countries have close to 2,000 of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken in the world?

• China and India

• India and Nigeria

• Thailand and Papua New Guinea

• India and Thailand

• Papua New Guinea and India

  
  

Which statement about the diffusion of the English and Mandarin (Chinese) languages is true?

• English is spoken in only the U.K. and the U.S., while Mandarin is spoken all over East Asia

• English has diffused worldwide, while Mandarin is spoken mostly in China

• English and Mandarin are both spoken worldwide as lingua franca languages

• the number of both English speakers and Mandarin speakers is declining

  
  

• the number of English speakers is declining, while the number of Mandarin speakers is steadily increasing

Which of these modern languages spread globally because of religion?

• 
  Arabic

  
  

• English

• Mandarin

• French

• Spanish

Which statement about official languages is true?

• 
  they are always spoken by the majority of citizens of a country

• they are the language of the largest cultural group of a country

• they are used by the government for use in its daily business

  
  

• each country can have only one official language

• 
  English is the official language of the United States

Which of the following did NOT significantly impact the English language?

• the Normans

• the Germanic tribes

• the Vikings

• the Celts

  
  

• William Shakespeare

Which statement about the English language is correct?

• it is a member of the Latin (Romance) language branch

  
  

• it has been largely influenced by the French language

  
  

• 
  it has only two separate dialects: British and American

  
  

• 
  it is the official language of the United States

• 
  worldwide, there are three times as many native speakers of English as second language speaker

Which of the following countries primarily speaks a language belonging to the Indo-European family?

• 
  Finland

• Estonia

• 
  Sweden

• Hungary

• Turkey