APHG Chapter 5 Languages

Match the following

• Austro-Asiatic

• South East Asian Group

• Romance

• East Asian Group

• Turkic

• Other Asian Group

• Nilo- Saharan

• African Language Group

• Sino-Tibetian

• Indo-European Group

HOW MANY US STUDENTS SPEAK A FORIGN LANGUAGE?

• 92%

• 30%

• 20%

• 63%

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DEFINES A LANGUAGE

• A SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION THROUGH SYMBOLS

• A SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION THROUGH MOVEMENT

• A SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION THROUGH SPEECH

• ALL OF THESE ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

TRUE OR FALSE: A CENTRIPETAL FORCE IS A FORCE THAT UNIFIES PEOPLE

• TRUE

• FALSE

APPROXIMATELY, HOW MANY INSTITUTIONAL LANGUAGES EXIST?

• 600

• 200

• 32

• 79

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES A LANGUAGE GROUP?

• A COLLECTION OF LANGUAGES WITHIN A FAMILY

• A COLLECTION OF LANGUAGES RELATED THROUGH COMMON ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE THAT EXISTED BEFORE WRITTEN LANGUAGE

• A COLLECTION OF LANGUAGES WITHIN A BRANCH

• NONE OF THESE ARE CORRECT

TRUE OR FALSE: ACCORDING TO BIOLOGIST QUENTIN ATKINSON LANGUAGE FIRST DEVELOPED IN NORTHERN EUROPE WHERE DIVERSITY WAS THE GREATEST IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

• TRUE

• FALSE

The ability for two or more people to be able to speak two or more languages and understand each other describes

• Lingua Franca

• Institutionalized

• Mutually Intelligible

• Growing Language

The people of this African Language speak over 529 distinct Languages

• Nigeria

• Egypt

• South Africa

• Lesotho

• Sudan

What percentage of students in The European Union learn English as a Second Language?

• Under 20%

• about 32%

• less than 50%

• 63%

• Over 90%