WorksheetsIntro to WL - What is Language? Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What do we call researchers who study language?
Linguists
Anthropologists
Archaeologists
Entomologists
Which of these is a widely-used African language?
Urdu
Hausa
Cantonese
Navajo
Which of the following grammatical constructs is important in English?
Particles
Inflection
Word Order
Tone
Non-picturable things can be represented with what type of written language?
ideographs
pie charts
bar graphs
scatterplots
When did spoken language first develop among humans?
12,000 years ago
1 million years ago
100,000 years ago
We do not know
Syntax is another word for what?
alphabet
grammar
vocabulary
gesturing
Which of the following grammatical features is extremely important in Chinese?
Capitalization
Punctuation
Tone
Word Order
Which major world event resulted in the addition of many French and Latin words to the English language?
The Norman Invasion
The French Revolution
World War I
The invention of the printing press
What do we call the set of symbols that represent sounds in written language?
emojis
hieroglyphs
an alphabet
punctuation
English is a member of which major language family?
Austronesian
Sino-Tibetan
Afroasiatic
Indo-European
What are the most important components of language?
Homophones
Words
Particles
Inflections
Language is the ___________________ or transfer of meaning.
expression
injection
gifting
exchange
The ancient language Latin and modern language Russian both feature this grammatical structure, which makes word order non-essential.
Inflection
Particles
Tone
Stress
Symbols or drawings that represent specific objects are called what?
alphabets
ideographs
pictographs
charts
Why are vocabularies in languages constantly changing?
Words are borrowed from other languages
Words fall out of general use
New words are invented
All of the above
