WorksheetsAP Human Geography Chapter 5 Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 18mins
A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
Creole
Isogloss
Received Pronunciation
Romanification
A combination of German and English
Denglish
Engman
Gerlish
Spanglish
Germanish
A language spoken in daily use, but its literary tradition is not widely distributed.
Developing Language
Vigorous language
Devolved Language
Lingua Angelica
These are defined as regional variation of a language and are distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Dialects
Twang
Didactic
Official Language
Logogram
This dialect, also referred to African American Vernacular English (AAVE), is spoken by some African Americans:
Ebonics
Lingua Franca
Lingua Africanse
Swahili
Which of the following is not a reason some languages go extinct?
Globalization causes people to leave behind their indigenous language for another
People are pressured to give up their native language
The language is related to one or two other languages
Genocide or death of all the speakers of a language
The language is not being taught to the younger generation
A language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family
isolated
isogloss
isosceles
integrated
None of these
A word boundary; a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features
isolated
isogloss
isosceles
integrated
None of these
A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago
Language Family
Language Branch
Language Group
Language Crown
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history (the oldest)
Language Family
Language Branch
Language Group
Language Crown
A collection of languages within a branch that share common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary (most recent)
Language Family
Language Branch
Language Group
Language Crown
A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different, such as English or Hindi
Lingua franca
Pigeon Language
Vigorous language
Sub-dialect
Inguinal
A language that is written as well as spoken
literary tradition
Developing language
Vigorous language
Extinct language
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound, as in written Chinese.
Logogram
Ethogram
Didactic marks
Holographic language
Idiosyncratic language
Used by a government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money and stamps (there might be more than one)
Official language
Vulgar Latin
Unparliamentary language
Creole
AAVE
A simplified form of speech formed out of one or more existing languages and used as a lingua franca by people who have no other language in common: "Brah, did you like Lilo & Stitch during your small kid time? All of my Ohana did!"
Pigeon language
Received pronunciation
Standard language
Pidgin language
The now standard dialect of British English, based on the educated speech characteristics from the areas of London, Cambridge, and Oxford; "The Queen's English"
Geordie English (GE)
Received Pronunciation (RP)
Vulgar Latin
French Creole
Royal Pronunciation (RP)
A dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government business education and mass communication.
Southern American Dialect
Vigorous language
AAVE
Standard language
Transmitted language (TL)
A language that is spoken daily by people of all ages in a population, but has no literary tradition at all (such as many African languages).
Developing language
Extinct language
Vigorous language
Dothraki language
The language used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
Standard Latin
Vulgar Latin
Received Greek Pronunciation
Greco-Roman Dialect
Caligular Latin
A combination of Spanish and English spoken by many Hispanic Americans
Denglish
Franglais
Mayan
Spanglish
TexMex
A combination of French and English. According to a 2018 census, at least 35 million people in Europe speak it fluently and nearly a third use it as the primary language at home.
Denglish
Franglais
Quebecois
Spanglish
Frankfurter
If a dying or endangered language starts to be taught to a society's children as their first language, it is said to be:
a terminus language.
a salvaged language.
a devolved language
a reawakening (revived) language
English is part of which language branch?
Germanic
High Valyrian
Sino-Tibetan
Austronesian
Slavic
What is the most widely spoken language family in the world?
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Neo-Bradfordian
Dravidian
Since Israel became an independent nation in 1948, they have revived this language (it was used in the Old Testament):
Denglish
Received Pronunciation
Mandarin
Hebrew
