World language
This publication gives yearly updated information about how many languages exist and how many people speak them.
Ethnologue:
One major factor causing languages to disappear is when this group stops learning the language.
YOUNG CHILDREN
This script has been the most widely used writing system for Mongolian
Uigarjin Mongolian script?
“Because of” is followed by this part of speech.
NOUN
Opposite of “borrow.”
LEND
HOW many languages existed worldwide in 2017.
Languages may die when this group passes away.
native speakers
The Mongols adopted the script around this year.
1204
“Because” is followed by this structure.
clause (subject + verb + object
What English word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
SHORT
This continent has the largest number of languages spoken.
asia
In North America, only this number of indigenous languages are spoken by 10,000 people.
EIGHT LANGUAGES
This historical figure adopted the Naiman writing system after defeating them.
CHINGIS KHAN
In time clauses, if the main clause is past tense, the time clause should also be this tense type.
past tense
What gets wetter the more it dries?
TOWEL
These unexplored regions make it difficult to know the exact number of languages.
the Amazon and the highlands of New Guinea?
More than this number of Aboriginal languages have become extinct in Australia.
100
This captured scribe and his seal influenced adoption of the script.
Tatatunga?
The writing carved into the stone is called an
inscription
Name a word spelled wrong in every dictionary.
WRONG
Within the next century, this many languages are expected to disappear
3000
The overwhelming influence responsible for decline in indigenous languages over 500 years.
European settlement?
The earliest example of the script is known by HIS name.
Chinggis stone inscription
The distance of the arrow shot was measured in
FATHOMS
comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
letter M