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What causes languages to become diffused all over the world? (specifically english)
Question 2
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What language is the principle language of communication and interaction for the entire world?
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French
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English
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Spanish
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Mandarin
Question 3
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What TWO competing geographic trends does language display?
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globalization
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local diversity
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culture
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landscape
Question 4
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Which regions have the largest number of dying languages?
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South Pacific, Latin America, and North America
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Europe, Africa, Asia
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North America, Africa, Asia
Question 5
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What is the South Pacific's institutionalized language?
Question 6
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What is said to be the reason for the institutionalized language in the South Pacific?
Question 7
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What is one reason that British culture has remained in Austrailia?
Question 8
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Which South Pacific country created a policy to preserve a language (a dying language at that) other than English?
Question 9
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The United States has [blank_start]61[blank_end] languages in trouble and [blank_start]142[blank_end] languages dying.
Question 10
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What is the main cause of endangered languages in the United States?
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Forcing people to learn English
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Native American tribes discontinuing the teaching of their language to their young
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There aren't many endangered languages
Question 11
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What Native American language is making a comeback?
Question 12
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Why do people that speak English want to preserve the languages of the Celtic branch of Indo-European?
Question 13
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What country was conquered by the English in 1283?
Question 14
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In the 19th century, what caused the dominant language to go from Welsh to English?
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English speakers migrated there to work in coal mines and factories
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Welsh people felt that English would give them more opportunites
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England sent soldiers to control the land and the language caught on
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England forced everyone to learn English
Question 15
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What Celtic language was spoken in Cornwall?
Question 16
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Which Celtic langauge has more borrowed words from French than any other Celtic language?
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Cornish (Cornwall)
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Welsh (Wales)
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Breton (Brittany)
Question 17
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What are the the two groups that the Celtic Language branch is divided into?
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Goidelic
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Brythonic
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Germanic
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Tibetin
Question 18
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What are the two surviving languages of the Goidelic Celtic language group?
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Welsh
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Irish
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Breton
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Scottish Gaelic
Question 19
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In Wales and Ireland where is their official language (other than English) mostly spoken?
Question 20
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TRUE OR FALSE: Similarities and differences between languages are a measure of the degree of interaction among groups of people
Question 21
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language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any other language family
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extinct language
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isolation language
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historic language
Question 22
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What caused a language to become isolated?
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limited interaction between speakers of language and speakers of other languages
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mix of languages in a country
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constant interaction of languages
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language boundaries
Question 23
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What makes an isolated language qualify as vigorous? And later be deemed sustainable?
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full use in community, being learned by children as first language, used in face-to-face communication, and used by young and old
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not everyone uses the language, it is not taught to youth
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not used in communication
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only used by elderly
Question 24
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TRUE or FALSE: When a language is deemed sustainable it is believed to exist at least in the near future
Question 25
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What is the only example of a vigorous language in Europe?
Question 26
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What is believed about the braque language?
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that is was probably spoken over a wider area but was abandoned where its speakers came in contact with Indo-Europeans
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that the people who spoke it were from China
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that it was brought about after Indo-European languages
Question 27
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What does the diffusion of Indo-European languages demonstrate? (choose best answer)
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patriotism
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a common ancestor dominated much of the Europe before recorded history
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one person started all the languages
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people created the languages
Question 28
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Why is Icelandic significant?
Question 29
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In A.D. 874 who colonized Iceland?
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English settlers
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Spanish settlers
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Norwegian settlers
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Irish settlers
Question 30
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When an ethnic group migrates to a new location what is one thing they take with them from their former home? (choose best answer)
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food
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money
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language
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family
Question 31
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Why has Icelandic not changed very much compared to other countries changes in language?
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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
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They do not want to change their language
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They do not need to change their language because they feel like they know everything they need to know
Question 32
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a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use
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isolated language
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extinct language
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recovering language
Question 33
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What are example of recently extinct languages? (check all that apply)
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Liv
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French
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Scandanavian
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Clallam
Question 34
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How does the loss of many languages reflect globalization?
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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
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reflects how languages spread across the world
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shows how mass media, easier communication, quicker transportation, etc has allowed languages to spread farther and quicker across the world
Question 35
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What efforts reflect the importance that groups place on language as an element of local culture? (check all that apply)
Question 36
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What is an example of a language once rarely used but is more commonly used now?
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Scandanavian
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Hebrew
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Liv
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Spanish
Question 37
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TRUE or FALSE: Most people in present day Israel used to speak Aramaic, which in turn was replaced with Arabic
Question 38
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What are Israel's two official languages?
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English
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Hebrew
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Arabic
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French
Question 39
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Why was the task of making hebrew a modern language so difficult?
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no one knew how to read the language
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new words had to be created for things that weren't around during the biblical times
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they did not know the grammer rules for the language
Question 40
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Who initiated the revival effort of the hebrew language?
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Jesus
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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David Newton Whitmore
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George Washington