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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Citizens of the United Kingdom speak the language of which language family?
Slavic
French
Romance
Germanic
What parent language do the Romance Languages come from?
English
Slavic
Pyrenees
Latin
This language family came from the ancient Roman Empire.
Slavic
English
Germanic
Romance
Italian, French, and Spanish are members of this language family.
Germanic
Romance
Slavic
English
If you traveled from London, England to Moscow, Russia, which two language families would you come in contact with?
Slavic/Romance
English/Romance
Romance/Germanic
Germanic/Slavic
Spanish is to Romance as ______ is to Germanic.
French
Russian
Italian
English
A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a
dialect
language branch
language family
language group
language root
Which language family does the Russian language belong to?
Romance
Germanic
Slavic
Celtic
The Indo-European language family includes all of the following languages except:
Hindi
Mandarin
Spanish
Russian
Which language family is primarily spoken in the Middle East and North Africa?
Afro-Asiatic
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Uralic
Which of the following languages is part of the Uralic language family?
Finnish
Spanish
Mandarin
Arabic
The Celtic languages are primarily spoken in which region?
Scandinavia
Eastern Europe
British Isles
South America
Which language family does the Japanese language belong to?
Altaic
Japonic
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Which language family is known for having tonal languages, such as Mandarin and Cantonese?
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Niger-Congo
Which language family includes languages spoken by indigenous peoples of the Americas?
Niger-Congo
Austronesian
Indo-European
Na-Dene
