The second-oldest language family after Amerind, spoken by Native Americans of northwest Canada and part of Alaska as well as by the Apache and Navajo, is:
A.Da-Nene
B.Austronesian
C.Polynesian
D.Nostratic
What is A. Da-Nene
100
The study of the origins and meaning of place names is called:
A.Esperanto
B.toponymy
C.official language
D. pidgin
What is B Toponymy
100
A theory that suggests that language spread with farming from Antolia is:
A.deep reconstruction
B.the conquest theory
C.the agriculture theory
D.Na-Dene
What is C The agriculture theory
100
Language differentiation over time and space is:
A.language divergence
B.Nostratic
C.language replacement
D.language convergence
What is A Language Divergence
100
Language differentiation over time and space is:
A.language divergence
B.Nostratic
C.language replacement
D.language convergence
What is A Language Divergence
200
Bauques speak the _______ Language
What is Euskera
200
Name 3 reasons we change Toponyms
What is After Decolonization, After Political revolution, to memorialize people or events, to brand a place
200
A theory that suggests that language spread by means of westward expansion on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants, is:
A.deep reconstruction
B.conquest theory
C.agricultural theory
D.language convergence
What is B Conquest Theory
200
This is a group of people from different parts of a land come together speaking different versions of the same language it converges into a new language what kind of diffusion occured
What is Human Interaction
200
The process of “blending” two formerly different languages as spatial interaction between their speakers increases is:
A.vocalization
B.language convergence
C.language replacement
D.language divergence
What is B Language Convergence
300
The Offical languge of Nigeria
What is English
300
In what part of the country are most Martin Luther King jr streets located
What is South
300
Proto-Indo-European languges began in the fertile crescent and then diffused out ward
What is Renfrew Hypothesis
300
The rise of the printing press and pressing of books allowed for what kind of distribution
What is Print
300
The dominant language in trade and commerce, in science and technology, and in computers today is:
A.Chinese
B.English
C.Japanese
D.Russian
What is B English
400
A simplified combination of elements of two languages, used for basic communication is:
A.a creole
B.a lingua franca
C.Esperanto
D.a pidgin
What is D Pidgin
400
Name 1 of the 3 things that toponyms do for a place
What is A. Imparts a certain character on a place
B. Reflects the Social Process in a place
C. Can give us a glimpse of the history of a place
400
Language followed trade routes from the hearth eastward into present day Iran and around the Caspian
What is Dispersal hypotesis
400
When one group concurs another we see the death of the native language in its place comes a new version of the concurring language.
What is Colonialism
400
The Language of trade
What is Lingua Franca
500
A language that can be spoken and understood by many peoples, even though they speak other languages at home, is:
A.Esperanto
B.a pidgin
C.a lingua franca
D.a creole
What is A Lingua Franca
500
Toponym is ?
What is name of a place
500
In Agriculture theory what caused the language to migrate into Europe
What is Increased food supply
500
The need to sell what you produce or catch for an income moves language to remold and build to suite the business.
What is Trade
500
A simple language that uses 2 or more languages melded together to create a new language