WorksheetsLanguage Review
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 31mins
What is the primary reason languages in the same family are similar?
They are spoken in the same region
They have the same number of speakers
They come from a common older language
They use the same alphabet
Which language family does the Romance languages belong to?
Germanic
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Afro-Asiatic
What event led to the diversification of Latin into different Romance languages?
The spread of the Roman Empire
The invention of the printing press
The fall of the Roman Empire in 476 CE
The Renaissance period
Which of the following is NOT a Romance language?
Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Based on the image, which language family is primarily located in the region colored pink on the map?
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Dravidian
Sino-Tibetan
Which language family is most widely diffused?
Indo-European languages
Afro-Asiatic languages
Sino-Tibetan languages
Austronesian languages
What does language diffusion mean?
The process by which a language remains unchanged in a particular area.
The process by which a language is forgotten or becomes extinct.
The process by which a language spreads from its original location to other places.
The process by which a language is officially adopted by a country.
How can cultural exchange lead to language diffusion?
By people moving to new places and isolating themselves.
By people sharing ideas, religion, art, and more, which can also spread languages.
By people adopting new technologies only.
By people engaging in silent trade without verbal communication.
What is the primary reason for the decline of many indigenous languages around the world?
Natural disasters
Language policies favoring dominant languages
Lack of written form
Technological advancements
What alphabet does English use?
Roman
Greek
Arabic
Hebrew
What writing system does Chinese use?
The Roman Alphabet
The Cyrillic Alphabet
Symbols called pictographs and ideographs
The Greek Alphabet
What was the language of the Ancient Romans?
Latin
Greek
Egyptian
Persian
What is the international language?
Spanish
Chinese
French
English
Arabic and Hebrew are written from....
right to left
left to right
up and down
in capital letters
Latin is an important language and is still used in medicine,....
Science
Religion
Law
Science, Religion, and Law
A symbol that represents a specific object is ....
an ideograph
a phonetic alphabet
intonation
a pictograph
The first people to invent the alphabet were....
The Egyptians
The Hebrews and the Phoenicians
The Greeks and the Persians
The Assyrians
English is part of the .....family
Romance
Germanic
Hebrew
Slavic
Almost ______ of the world speak a language that comes from the Indo-European family
1/3
3/4
1/2
1/5
Who were the first documented people to live in England?
The Celts
The French
The Anglo-Saxons
The Romans
What language is the basis of English?
Old Norse
Anglo-Saxon
Latin
Celtic
Who invaded England in 1066?
The Pope
Julius Cesar
William Duke of Normandy
Napoleon
After the invasion of England in 1066, What became the official language?
German
English
French
Spanish
The study of the structure of phrases and sentences
syntax
morphology
phonology
semantics
Hint: The trunk of the tree
Around how many languages are spoken in the world?
7,000
700
45000
2000
This sign tells us not to..
Talk to strangers
Feed the pigeons
Feed the fish
Feed the snakes
