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Chapter 5-Key Issue 4

Question 1 of 40

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What causes languages to become diffused all over the world? (specifically english)

Select one of the following:

  • isolation

  • dominance of a country over many others over the Earth

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

1

What language is the principle language of communication and interaction for the entire world?

Select one of the following:

  • French

  • English

  • Spanish

  • Mandarin

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

1

What TWO competing geographic trends does language display?

Select one or more of the following:

  • globalization

  • local diversity

  • culture

  • landscape

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

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Which regions have the largest number of dying languages?

Select one or more of the following:

  • South Pacific, Latin America, and North America

  • Europe, Africa, Asia

  • North America, Africa, Asia

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

1

What is the South Pacific's institutionalized language?

Select one of the following:

  • english

  • spanish

  • mandarin

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

1

What is said to be the reason for the institutionalized language in the South Pacific?

Select one of the following:

  • British colonization during early 19th century

  • Roman invasion

  • Migration

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

1

What is one reason that British culture has remained in Austrailia?

Select one of the following:

  • the restriction of immigration from non-english-speaking places during the 19th and 20th centuries

  • British remained there

  • British culture does not remain there

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

1

Which South Pacific country created a policy to preserve a language (a dying language at that) other than English?

Select one of the following:

  • Australia

  • New Zealand

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

The United States has ( 61, 142, 8 ) languages in trouble and ( 142, 61, 23 ) languages dying.

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

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What is the main cause of endangered languages in the United States?

Select one of the following:

  • Forcing people to learn English

  • Native American tribes discontinuing the teaching of their language to their young

  • There aren't many endangered languages

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

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What Native American language is making a comeback?

Select one of the following:

  • Cherokee

  • Navaho

  • Myaamia

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

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Why do people that speak English want to preserve the languages of the Celtic branch of Indo-European?

Select one of the following:

  • fun language to learn

  • it is believed to have been used to write the first BIbles

  • the languages offer insight into the cultual heritage of places that now speak English

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

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What country was conquered by the English in 1283?

Select one of the following:

  • Italy

  • Germany

  • Wales

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

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In the 19th century, what caused the dominant language to go from Welsh to English?

Select one of the following:

  • English speakers migrated there to work in coal mines and factories

  • Welsh people felt that English would give them more opportunites

  • England sent soldiers to control the land and the language caught on

  • England forced everyone to learn English

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

1

What Celtic language was spoken in Cornwall?

Select one of the following:

  • Welsh

  • Cornish

  • French

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

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Which Celtic langauge has more borrowed words from French than any other Celtic language?

Select one of the following:

  • Cornish (Cornwall)

  • Welsh (Wales)

  • Breton (Brittany)

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

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What are the the two groups that the Celtic Language branch is divided into?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Goidelic

  • Brythonic

  • Germanic

  • Tibetin

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

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What are the two surviving languages of the Goidelic Celtic language group?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Welsh

  • Irish

  • Breton

  • Scottish Gaelic

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

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In Wales and Ireland where is their official language (other than English) mostly spoken?

Select one of the following:

  • urban areas

  • remote areas in the country

  • scattered

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

1

TRUE OR FALSE: Similarities and differences between languages are a measure of the degree of interaction among groups of people

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

1

language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any other language family

Select one of the following:

  • extinct language

  • isolation language

  • historic language

Explanation

Question 22 of 40

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What caused a language to become isolated?

Select one of the following:

  • limited interaction between speakers of language and speakers of other languages

  • mix of languages in a country

  • constant interaction of languages

  • language boundaries

Explanation

Question 23 of 40

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What makes an isolated language qualify as vigorous? And later be deemed sustainable?

Select one of the following:

  • full use in community, being learned by children as first language, used in face-to-face communication, and used by young and old

  • not everyone uses the language, it is not taught to youth

  • not used in communication

  • only used by elderly

Explanation

Question 24 of 40

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TRUE or FALSE: When a language is deemed sustainable it is believed to exist at least in the near future

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 25 of 40

1

What is the only example of a vigorous language in Europe?

Select one of the following:

  • english

  • brasque

  • french

Explanation

Question 26 of 40

1

What is believed about the braque language?

Select one of the following:

  • that is was probably spoken over a wider area but was abandoned where its speakers came in contact with Indo-Europeans

  • that the people who spoke it were from China

  • that it was brought about after Indo-European languages

Explanation

Question 27 of 40

1

What does the diffusion of Indo-European languages demonstrate? (choose best answer)

Select one of the following:

  • patriotism

  • a common ancestor dominated much of the Europe before recorded history

  • one person started all the languages

  • people created the languages

Explanation

Question 28 of 40

1

Why is Icelandic significant?

Select one of the following:

  • it has changed less than any other language in the germanic branch

  • it is isolated

  • it is not part of the Indo-European family and is not isolated

Explanation

Question 29 of 40

1

In A.D. 874 who colonized Iceland?

Select one of the following:

  • English settlers

  • Spanish settlers

  • Norwegian settlers

  • Irish settlers

Explanation

Question 30 of 40

1

When an ethnic group migrates to a new location what is one thing they take with them from their former home? (choose best answer)

Select one of the following:

  • food

  • money

  • language

  • family

Explanation

Question 31 of 40

1

Why has Icelandic not changed very much compared to other countries changes in language?

Select one of the following:

  • Norwegian immigrants had little contact with speakers of other languages when they arrived at the island of Iceland, and they also did not have contact with speakers of their language back in Norway, other countries changed by adopting new words and pronounciation which the isolated people of Iceland has less opportunity to do

  • They do not want to change their language

  • They do not need to change their language because they feel like they know everything they need to know

Explanation

Question 32 of 40

1

a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use

Select one of the following:

  • isolated language

  • extinct language

  • recovering language

Explanation

Question 33 of 40

1

What are example of recently extinct languages? (check all that apply)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Liv

  • French

  • Scandanavian

  • Clallam

Explanation

Question 34 of 40

1

How does the loss of many languages reflect globalization?

Select one of the following:

  • to be apart of a global economy and culture, people choose to use a widely used language, leaving their traditional or indigenous languages to disappear

  • reflects how languages spread across the world

  • shows how mass media, easier communication, quicker transportation, etc has allowed languages to spread farther and quicker across the world

Explanation

Question 35 of 40

1

What efforts reflect the importance that groups place on language as an element of local culture? (check all that apply)

Select one or more of the following:

  • preserving endangered languages

  • helping throw out languages

  • creating new languages

Explanation

Question 36 of 40

1

What is an example of a language once rarely used but is more commonly used now?

Select one of the following:

  • Scandanavian

  • Hebrew

  • Liv

  • Spanish

Explanation

Question 37 of 40

1

TRUE or FALSE: Most people in present day Israel used to speak Aramaic, which in turn was replaced with Arabic

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 38 of 40

1

What are Israel's two official languages?

Select one or more of the following:

  • English

  • Hebrew

  • Arabic

  • French

Explanation

Question 39 of 40

1

Why was the task of making hebrew a modern language so difficult?

Select one of the following:

  • no one knew how to read the language

  • new words had to be created for things that weren't around during the biblical times

  • they did not know the grammer rules for the language

Explanation

Question 40 of 40

1

Who initiated the revival effort of the hebrew language?

Select one of the following:

  • Jesus

  • Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

  • David Newton Whitmore

  • George Washington

Explanation

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