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European Language Groups

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name

Class

Date

A man who speaks French wants to learn a foreign language that is as close to French as possible. Which would be better for him to try?

German

English

Italian

Polish

What is the main language family that most European languages belong to?

European

Indo-European

Indonesian

No family

Which of these languages is NOT a language family in Europe?

Australian

Romance

Germanic

Slavic

What is the name of the alphabet used to write the Russian language?

Latin

Cyrillic

David is moving from England to some place in Europe. He can't remember the name of the country, but he knows he will have to learn a completely different alphabet. Where is he most likely moving?

Portugal

Germany

Belgium

Russia

Claire, who is Belgian, knows she is being transferred from her home country to another European country. She just found out that she will NOT have to learn a new language in her new country. Where is her new job most likely to be?

Ukraine

France

Italy

Spain

Which language family does Ukrainian belong to?

Germanic

Slavic

Romance

Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish are languages within this language family:

Romance

Germanic

Slavic

Spanish

This language family is found in Eastern Europe and Russia:

Russian

Slavic

Romance

Germanic

10.

If you traveled to the Iberian Peninsula, which language family would you experience while you were there?

Slavic

Germanic

Romance

Italian

11.

Ukranian, Polish, and Russian are examples of languages in which language family?

Slavic

Germanic

Romance

Eastern

12.

Spanish is to Romance as __________ is to Germanic

Italian

English

Russian

French

13.

The languages from this language group are based on Latin, the language of the ancient Roman Empire:

Germanic

Romance

Slavic

Latin

14.

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

Romance then Slavic

Slavic then Germanic

Germanic then Romance

Germanic then Slavic

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European Language Groups

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

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