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Question 1.
A language family is a set of languages that can be shown to derive from a common ancestor.
   
 
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Question 2.
Dravidian is part of the Indo-European language family.
   
 
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Question 3.
Chinese is part of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
   
 
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Question 4.
A language group is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.

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Question 5.
Mexican Spanish and Colombian Spanish are dialects of Castillian Spanish.
   
 
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Question 6.
English and German belong to the North Germanic language group.
   
 
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Question 7.
Physical boundaries such as mountains or oceans are strong intervening obstacles creating barriers to communication between people living on the opposite sides.

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Question 8.
Romanian is a Balto-Slavic language.

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Question 9.
The branch of the Indo-European language family with the most speakers is English.

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Question 10.
The most widely used languages in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh come from the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Question 11.
There are as many ways to write Hindi as there are ways to speak it.

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Question 12.
Speakers of two different Indian languages who wish to communicate with each other can sometimes turn to English as a common language.
   
 
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Question 13.
After Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian are the two most important East Slavic languages.
   
 
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Question 14.
The desire to use native languages other than Russian was a major drive in the breakup of the Soviet Union a decade ago.
   
 
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Question 15.
Approximately three-fourths of the Chinese people speaks Cantonese.

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Question 16.
The Chinese government is imposing Mandarin countrywide.
   
 
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Question 17.
As in Hindi, the five different Chinese languages are written the same way.
   
 
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Question 18.
The Korean language does not use ideograms.
   
 
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Question 19.
In the Korean language, Chinese and Japanese words are the principal sources for creating new words to describe new technology and concepts.
   
 
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Question 20.
Roman Catholic missionaries devised the Vietnamese alphabet.
   
 
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Question 21.
If two groups who speak the same language are isolated from one another for a long period, the two groups will speak languages that are so different that they will be classified as separate languages.

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Question 22.
English is an official language in countries which contain one-third of the people of the world.
   
 
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Question 23.
English is classified as a Low Germanic language because the people who migrated to England came from the northern lowlands.
   
 
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Question 24.
Pronunciation has changed more in England than in the United States.
   
 
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Question 25.
A language of international communication is known as a lingua franca.
   
 
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