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Chapter 5

Concept Review

Concept Review

Our Concept Review exercises will test your knowledge of the basic concepts and ideas offered in Chapter 5, Language. By successfully reviewing these concepts, you will reinforce your comprehension of these geographic ideas.

This activity contains 26 questions.

	What distinguishes a language branch?   Languages related through a common ancestor. Scientific evidence can confirm branches derived from the same family. Differences are not as old as in language families. All of the above.

	English is part of which branch of the Indo-European family?   Indo-Iranian Celtic Balto-Slavic Germanic

	Which (in numbers of people) is the world's most extensively spoken language?   Indo-European Austronesian Afro-Asiatic Sino-Tibetan

	Which Romance languages are primarily spoken in southwestern Europe and Latin America?   French Portuguese Spanish Italian All of the above

	Which of these languages is Low Germanic?   Frisian Afrikaans Dutch Flemish All of the above

	Which of these languages are the North Germanic Group?   Danish Norwegian Swedish Icelandic All of the above

	From where did the four Scandinavian languages derive?   Danish Germanic Old Norse Swedish

	What is one of the main elements of cultural diversity among the nearly one billion residents of India?   language dress religion all of the above

	Which of the following language families belong to India?   Austro-Asiatic Dravidian Indo-European Sino-Tibetan all of the above

	Why are 16 percent of the Chinese population over the age of sixteen unable to read or write more than a few characters of Chinese?   Lack of teachers in rural areas Poor education system Children over age of 14 must work Large number of Chinese characters

	Which country speaks Austro-Thai?   Vietnam Thailand Laos All of the above None of the above

	Why have Japanese and Korean formed distinctive language families?   Japanese society was formed centuries before Korean society. Japan is an island and Korea is a peninsular state. Buddhism was established in Korea first. None of the above.

	How do the structures of Chinese and Japanese language differ?   Japanese language has no Chinese ideograms. Chinese ideograms can not be used with Japanese. Japanese uses two systems of phonetic symbols. All of the above.

	Which language family transcends (in importance) the number of speakers because its languages were used to write the holiest books of three major world religions: the Bible (New and Old Testaments), and the Quran?   Afro-Asiatic Sino Tibetan Austro-Asiatic Indo-European

	A standard Arabic language has developed among the 230 million speakers because   the speakers live in a homogeneous part of the world. Arabs have limited contact with speakers of different languages. all Arabs pray in a specific Arab dialect. of the influence of the Quran, newspapers, and radio.

	Which European country(ies) are not dominated by Indo-European speakers?   Estonia Finland Hungary All of the above

	The global distribution of languages results from a combination of which two geographic processes?   diffusion and migration interaction and isolation all of the above

	Which are the first and second most-spoken languages in the world?   Cantonese, French Spanish, English Mandarin, English German, Mandarin

	The three tribes that brought the beginnings of English to the British Isles came from   central and eastern Germany. Schleswig and Holstein. Austria and Germany. Germany and Denmark.

	In what significant ways does U.S. English differ from that of England?   vocabulary pronunciation spelling all of the above

	What was an important influence for new English words in America?   new inventions new physical features and animals American Indians all of the above

	Noah Webster primarily conceived the difference in American pronunciation and spelling from that of the British Isles because   it would reduce cultural dependence on England. it would establish a uniquely American dialect. it would inspire national pride. all of the above.

	What treaty ensured that Spanish and Portuguese would be diffused to the western portion of the New World?   Treaty of Tordesillas Treaty of Madrid Treaty of Rome Treaty of Lisbon

	How has Switzerland remained at peace with four or five different languages within their borders?   Switzerland has a decentralized government. Switzerland is a neutral country. All of the languages spoken in Switzerland are similar. None of the above.

	Lingua franca languages include   Russian. Swahili. Hindustani. all of the above. none of the above.

	The current growth in the use of English has occurred because of   migration. expansion diffusion. military conquest. all of the above.

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