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geo chapter 5

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