Language

In order to better communicate with people from other countries, most Europeans learn to speak ______ as a second language.

• French

• German

• English

• Spanish

Italian, French, and Spanish are members of this language family.

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• English

What have Europeans done to try to solve the problem of so many languages?

• Outlawed the use of languages spoken by only a few people

• Decided not to trade with people who do not speak their language

• Made laws ensuring that English is the only official language of the European Union

• Required schoolchildren to learn one or two other languages beside their native language

If you traveled from London, England to Moscow, Russia, which two language families would you come in contact with?

• Slavic/Romance

• English/Romance

• Romance/Germanic

• Germanic/Slavic

Which language is spoken mostly throughout Eastern Europe?

• Germanic

• Slavic

• Romance

• Finnish

The current distribution of languages around the world is largely a result of

• social media

• the Internet

• Rosetta Stone sales

• migration

• high school requirements to learn a second language

A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a

• dialect

• language branch

• language family

• language group

• language root

language is important to culture because

• it is the main determinant of popular and folk culture

• it is the means of spreading cultural ideas

• it is not important to culture

• it only belongs to folk culture

• it only spreadsthrough contagious diffusion

Variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines are called...

• dialects

• standard language

• dialect chains

• language family

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