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geo chapter 5

Question	Answer
A lingua franca is	a language understood by people who have different native languages
A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a 2	language branch
A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a	language family
The two largest language families in the world are	Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European
The most widely spoken language in Brazil is	Portuguese
English is part of which language branch?	Germanic
A literary tradition is	written form of a language
The survival of any language relies on	the political and military strength of it's speakers
) British and American English differ in all but which of the following?	Alphabet
A form of a language spoken in a local area is a	dialect
When people who speak a given language migrate to a different location and become isolated from other members of their group	isolation usually results in differentiation of one language into dialect following eventually by 2 distinct languages
A pidgin language	has no native speakers
A creolized language is	a mix indigenous and colonial languages
The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world is	Mandarin
The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from	thousands of years of isolation between cultural groups
) ________ is to Canada as ________ is to the United States	French and Spanish
) English is the most important language in North America primarily because of	the diffusion of English colonies
English has achieved unprecedented acceptance globally due to	English has became less dominant but is still the leading Internet language
TRUE/FALSE.Language is a part of culture.	true
TRUE/FALSE.Nearly half the people in the world speak an Indo-European language.	true
TRUE/FALSE.A language family is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language existing before recorded history.	true
TRUE/FALSE. The present distribution of languages around the world is due to technological advances and the diffusion of popular culture	false
TRUE/FALSE.New Englanders use a different dialect of English than other Americans primarily because their ancestors came from different regions of England.	true
TRUE/FALSE.American spellings were differentiated from British spellings primarily because of U.S. desires for an independent identity.	true
English has achieved unprecedented acceptance globally due to	its role as a common language of a global economy and culture

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