Chapter 5 Review

1.

1 point

Commercials which advertise "pop", "Coke", and "soda" in different regions of the United States illustrate what concept?

a sound shift

a dialect chain

a logogram

an Isogloss

2.

1 point

What is a language group?

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history

A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago

A system of communication through speech

A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary

3.

1 point

What language theory explains the spread of language from the south of the Caucasus around the southern Caspian Sea into Iran and India and into Europe?

Greenberg's Hypothesis

Renfrew's Theory

Agriculture Theory

Nomadic Warrior/Conquest Theory

4.

1 point

Some linguists speculate that language families were once joined together tens of thousands of years ago. What is the term used to describe this?

Superfamilies

Language groups

Dravidian

Austronesian

5.

1 point

Which of the following language families is the largest in terms of the total number of speakers?

Indo-European

Niger-Congo

Sino-Tibetain

Dravidian

6.

1 point

Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. What language branch is it part of?

Nilo-Saharan

Sino-Tibetan

Indo-European

Afro-Asiatic

7.

1 point

What is the language of British colonial rule?

Belgium

English

Hindi

German

8.

1 point

English is part of which subgroup of the Indo-European language family?

Low Germanic

Dutch

High Germanic

German

9.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT considered one of the Romance Languages?

Romanian

Euskara

French

Italian

10.

1 point

The language of the United Kingdom is broken down phonetically into Scottish, Irish, Cockney, and other

dialects.

lingua francas.

languages.

isoglosses.

11.

1 point

The Nomadic Warrior Hypothesis, also known as the Kurgan Hypothesis or the Conquest Theory, states that

A Proto-Indo European language never existed.

Proto-Indo European speakers spread their language through conquest.

Proto-Indo European speakers spread their language through agricultural innovations

diffusion form Anatolia occurred westward to Greece and then to Europe

12.

1 point

Which of the following regions does the Sino-Tibetan language family dominate?

North America

Central Asia

East Asia

Latin America

13.

1 point

What do the languages of English, Spanish, and Hindi have in common?

They are all spoken in the same countries

They are all part of a major religious system

All three are in the Indo-European language family

All three are spoken where they are due to colonialism

14.

1 point

What is the BEST description of what occurs when languages converge?

sounds shifts create a new vocabulary

a creole language develops and becomes a pidgin

a pidgin language develops and becomes a creole language

the original language becomes extinct

15.

1 point

All of the following are true statements about the English Language EXCEPT

even in other countries, much advertising exists in English

it is the language of the Internet

it is the dominant primary language across the globe

it is generally considered the language of science

16.

1 point

What are strong historical intervening obstacles that lead the the creation of differences in the Romance languages?

Rivers

Mountains

Religion

Oceans

17.

1 point

What Statement best describes what will happen to the global diversity of languages?

An increase in number due to incidents of devolution

Experience a significant decrease in number due to globalization

A decrease in the numbers due to a few incidents of convergence.

Maintain the current number of languages due to the mostly stable political situations.

18.

1 point

The contemporary distribution of English speakers around the world exists because

The Romans conquered much of the European continent

the people of England migrated with their language when they established colonies

English is the primary language of business

communication and transportation technology has increased

19.

1 point

Which of the following has never been considered an international "lingua franca"?

English

Khoisan

French

Mandarin

20.

1 point

Which of the following was not a primary tribe that invaded England and lead to the creation of the English language?

Vikings

Angles

Jutes

Saxons

21.

1 point

Symbols that are used to represent worlds, or meaningful parts of words, rather than sounds are known as

Sonograms

Isograms

Logograms

Cartograms

22.

1 point

Which of the following cities would a creole language MOST likely be found?

Portland, Oregon

Charlotte, North Carolina

Buffalo, New York

New Orleans, Louisiana

23.

1 point

Which of the following is the BEST example of an isogloss found in the United States?

The religious boundary between Catholic and Protestants in the Northeast.

The language boundary between Spanish and English in Southern California and Arizona

The cultural convergence zone of Tex-Mex food throughout the United States

The language line separating the Southern dialect from the Appalachian dialect of English

24.

1 point

Which is the world's primary lingua franca language?

English

Mandarin Chinese

Russian

Spanish

25.

1 point

What is the most common lingua franca within the Niger-Congo language family?

Swahili

Zulu

Nyaja

Igbo

26.

1 point

Which of the following languages is the dominant language (other than English) spoken by people over the age of five in their homes in the United States?

Mandarin Chinese

Spanish

Hindu

Native American Languages

27.

1 point

Which of the following is not one of the 6 official languages of the United Nations?

Russian

German

Spanish

Arabic

28.

1 point

The Romance Language branch evolved from what language spoken 2,000 years ago?

Hebrew

Latin

Sardinian

Sanskrit

29.

1 point

A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated is called

logogram

creole

pidgin

isogloss

30.

1 point

When two groups of people who speak different languages interact (to make a trade for example), they often make up a simplified language combination to communicate with each other. This is called a(n)

dialect

Creole

pidgin

accent