5 WMA

English is part of which of these language families?

• Austronesian

• Indo-European

• Romance

• Germanic

Why did dialects develop within England?

• commerce developed more slowly in England than on the European continent.

• the Normans invaded from the south.

• different Germanic invaders settled in different regions.

• British Received Pronunciation became the standard dialect.

A language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages.

• pidgin language

• lingua franca

• dialect

• creole

Which country has more than 500 distinct languages spoken there?

• China

• Nigeria

• Brazil

• Kuwait

A boundary between language regions is called a(n) __________.

• isogloss

• language wall

• creole

• dialect

Which is an example of a revived language?

• skaw

• baltic

• hebrew

• creole

This can help a language's survival

• the political and military strength of its speakers.

• its similarity to other languages.

• the ease foreign speakers have in learning it.

• the homogenization of its dialects.

The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how

• similar the cultures of the speakers of each language are.

• closely the speakers of each language live to each other.

• recently in time the languages were once the same.

• different the alphabets of each language are.

Dialect

• A language used by the government for business

• language in written form

• A form of a language spoken in a local area is a

• a group of languages that don't share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages

Language branch is

• a form of a language spoken in a particular area.

• a group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages

• the variety of dialects in a language.

• a group of languages that don't share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages