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WorksheetsLanguage Maintenance and Shift
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is an important symbol of a minority group’s identity?
A. The language they maintain.
B. The language they posses and use.
C. The language they use to communicate.
How does Hebrew maintain their language?
A. By communicating verbally and gestures.
B. By using texts in prayers and sacred books.
C. By using bilingualism.
Why does a county initiate a compulsory subject?
A. To revive the language that has died
B. To maintain the language of a specific group.
C. To retain the language and its culture.
Resistance to language shift tends to last for a while in _____.
A. Villages
B. Urban
C. Rural
In America an English-speaking man marries a Filipino-speaking woman, for instance, which language will they use on their children?
A. English
B. Both A & C
C. Filipino
How does language help reflect values attitudes and beliefs?
A. To convey our thoughts, which consist of knowledge, beliefs, ideas, notions, feelings, opinion, attitudes and etc.
B. To develop our thoughts, which consist of knowledge, beliefs, ideas, notions, feelings, opinion, attitudes and etc.
C. To introduce our thoughts, which consist of knowledge, beliefs, ideas, notions, feelings, opinion, attitudes and etc.
What does “not” describe language shift caused by migrant majorities?
A. Language and language rules are imposed by colonial powers as an official language.
B, Extinction of minor languages due to political, economic, and social changes within speech communities.
C. Colonial power’s language serves an additional language in multilingual countries.
What is the world’s lingua franca?
A. Mandarin
B. Hindi
C. English
What countries imposed their languages as an official language of the world?
A. New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Germany
B. Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain
C. Iran, Hungary, Egypt, Russia
What are the four advantages of Language Maintenance?
A. Demographics, Political, Economy, Personal
B. Identity, Physical, Educational, Political
C. Educational, Social, Economy, Personal
What language death occurs when all or almost of the speakers of a language suddenly die as a result of disaster or violence?
A. Gradual Language Death
B. Sudden Language Death
C. Radical Language Death
What is Extinct Language?
A. It is considered extinct when only one living person can speak them.
B. It is considered extinct when no one living person can speak them.
C. It is considered extinct when few living person can speak them.
It is generally true that when all people who speak a language die, the language don’t die with them?
A. True
B. False
C. None of the above
Analyze this situation below. Choose what Language Death occurs in the situation.
In the late 1970s, smaller groups of Turks have begun to immigrate to the United Kingdom from other European countries. Their language is Martuthunira but they shift to English voluntarily over a couple of generations. But Turkey is not under threat of disappearing because of this shift, Martuthunira Language will always thrive in Turkey.
A. Sudden Language Death
B. Gradual Language Death
C. Bottom-To-Top Language Death
Language death’s process is similar to Language Shift.
A. True
B. False
C. Both A and B
