How did English come to dominate the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?

A common language can bring people together. For instance, the various German states as seen in the picture, came together based on language. This is an example of:

What is the most spoken language worldwide as a first language (L1)?

Which language is the most common second language (L2) learned in the world?

Parts of Cameroon speak English (in red), while the majority speak French. The English-speaking part of the country is fighting an insurgency against the majority French speakers. This is an example of language functioning as a:

Which of the following countries does NOT have an official language or languages?

English is classified as a ____________ language within the Indo-European language family.

Which of the following groups did NOT contribute directly to the development of Old English?

English has been influenced significantly by French and Latin. How did this occur?

Which form of diffusion is responsible for the usage of French in Burkina Faso?

English has become the de facto language of international communication. English is, therefore, a global ____________.

There are various forms of German spoken in Germany. Examples of these are Bavarian, Swabian, Alemannic, Platt, and Kölsch. What are these called?

Why are dialects less prominent in the United States than in Germany or the United Kingdom?

What is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of East Africa in countries like Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda?

5 million people in Ghana speak a simplified form of English as their native language. It has simplified grammar and limited vocabulary. This is known as a __________ language.

Russian and Norwegian traders in the 1700 and 1800s developed a simplified language combining Russian and Norwegian into Russenorsk. This is an example of a ____________.

Haitians speaks a standardized form of French that is quite different from standard French. Because it has become official, it is known as a ___________.

50% of people in the world speak a language from this language family as their native language. What language family is this?

Hindi (India), Farsi (Iran, Afghanistan), and Urdu (Pakistan) are all members of the same language family as:

Estonian, which is NOT an Indo-European language, belongs to which language family? This family includes Finnish and Hungarian.

Which of the following is NOT an Afro-Asiatic language?

Where would you find Niger-Congo languages?

Which of the following is NOT a Niger-Congo language?

Where would you NOT find an Austronesian language spoken widely?

Which of the following is not an isolated language in its own family?

Which of the following languages does NOT use the Latin based alphabet?

Which of the following languages does NOT use a Cyrillic based alphabet?

Coptic was once spoken widely in Egypt. It has been replaced by Arabic through expansion and hierarchical diffusion. Coptic is an example of ______________.

The Sami language, a Uralic language spoken in northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway, is only spoken by 30,000 people. It is, therefore, _____________.

Which language is most famous for being a revived language?

The Sami language, a Uralic language spoken in northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway, is only spoken by 30,000 people. It is, therefore, _____________.

Which of the following is NOT an extinct language?

Linguistic differences are acting as centrifugal forces in all but which country?

Which of the following is NOT a member of the Indo-European language family?