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Language Families

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Citizens of the United Kingdom speak the language of which language family?

a)

Slavic

b)

French

c)

Romance

d)

Germanic

2.

What parent language do the Romance Languages come from?

a)

English

b)

Slavic

c)

Pyrenees

d)

Latin

3.

This language family came from the ancient Roman Empire.

a)

Slavic

b)

English

c)

Germanic

d)

Romance

4.

Italian, French, and Spanish are members of this language family.

a)

Germanic

b)

Romance

c)

Slavic

d)

English

5.

If you traveled from London, England to Moscow, Russia, which two language families would you come in contact with?

a)

Slavic/Romance

b)

English/Romance

c)

Romance/Germanic

d)

Germanic/Slavic

6.

Spanish is to Romance as ______ is to Germanic.

a)

French

b)

Russian

c)

Italian

d)

English

7.

A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a

a)

dialect

b)

language branch

c)

language family

d)

language group

e)

language root

8.

Which language family does the Russian language belong to?

a)

Romance

b)

Germanic

c)

Slavic

d)

Celtic

9.

The Indo-European language family includes all of the following languages except:

a)

Hindi

b)

Mandarin

c)

Spanish

d)

Russian

10.

Which language family is primarily spoken in the Middle East and North Africa?

a)

Afro-Asiatic

b)

Indo-European

c)

Sino-Tibetan

d)

Uralic

11.

Which of the following languages is part of the Uralic language family?

a)

Finnish

b)

Spanish

c)

Mandarin

d)

Arabic

12.

The Celtic languages are primarily spoken in which region?

a)

Scandinavia

b)

Eastern Europe

c)

British Isles

d)

South America

13.

Which language family does the Japanese language belong to?

a)

Altaic

b)

Japonic

c)

Sino-Tibetan

d)

Indo-European

14.

Which language family is known for having tonal languages, such as Mandarin and Cantonese?

a)

Sino-Tibetan

b)

Indo-European

c)

Afro-Asiatic

d)

Niger-Congo

15.

Which language family includes languages spoken by indigenous peoples of the Americas?

a)

Niger-Congo

b)

Austronesian

c)

Indo-European

d)

Na-Dene