Language Families (part 1)
Language Families (part 2)
World languages
Official Languages
Miscellaneous
100
Indo-European is the _______ language family in the world
What is the largest language family in the world?
100
The fraction of people that speak Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan.
What is 2/3?
100
The most used language in the world is...
What is Mandarin (Chinese)?
100
The official language(s) of India is...
What is Hindi or English?
100
Language Groups share similar _______ and __________.
What is grammar and vocabulary?
200
A common ancestrial language that existed long before recorded time.
What is a language family?
200
Indo is to india, as Sino is to...
What is China?
200
This African language has more than 30 million speakers
What is Swahili?
200
The two main languages spoken in Canada.
What is English and French?
200
Call, die, and leg were all contributed from the...
What is the Vikings (not the football team)?
300
The second largest language family
What is Sino-Tibetan?
300
Afro-Asiatic is spoken in... (continents)
What is Africa (North) and Asia (Southwest)?
300
The most widely spread language in the world
What is English?
300
TRUE or FALSE (if false give me the correct answer): the official language of Germany is English
What is False, German?
300
Another word for regional variation is...
What is dialect
400
The third largest language family.
What is Niger-Congo?
400
Altaic is spoken in...
What is Turkey?
400
On a language family tree, the languages with at least 10 million speakers can represent the _____ of the tree.
What is trunk?
400
TRUE or FALSE (if false give me the correct answer): The Official language of Egypt is Swahili.
What is False, Arabic?
400
Name an example of a dialect in the U.S.
What is New England/Southeastern/Midland?
500
The percentage of Indo-European that's spoken.
What is 45.7%?
500
There is more than 1,000 languages documented in this continent.
What is Africa?
500
There are only ______ languages that have 100 million speakers.
What is eleven?
500
The official language of the U.S. is (think VERY hard)
What is THERE IS NO OFFICIAL LANGUAGE?
500
Different dialects have the same alphabet but have different... (name two)
What is vocab/spelling/pronunciation?
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