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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