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100

English and German are both in the same language _________.

What is family? What is branch? What is group?

100

English is part of which language family?

What is Indo-European?

100
This is a word-usage boundary on a map.
What is an isogloss?
100
This is the only preserved example of an isolated language.
What is Basque?
100
This is a language used to communicate by people who have different native languages.
What is a lingua franca?
200
These are the two most spoken language families in the world.
What are Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan?
200

These are the three Germanic groups that invaded England and influenced the development of English.

Who are the Angles, and Saxons and the Jutes?

200
This is the standard language dialect of Britain.
What is Received Pronunciation?
200
Between Australia and New Zealand, this is the country that has more thoroughly embraced native languages.
What is New Zealand?
200
This is the definition of a literary tradition.
What is a written form of a language.
300
What city is featured in your textbook as an example of a place that makes use of Spanglish?
What is Santa Ana?
300

This is what the use of English in the French language is called?

What is Franglais?

300
This was the dialect of latin that was used by soldiers stationed throughout the Roman Empire.
What was vulgar latin?
300
Give two examples of revived languages.
What are Hebrew and Cornish?
300
This is the most widely spoken language in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
400

Russian is part of this language group.

What is East Slavic?

400

These are examples of differences in spelling and pronunciation between British and American English.

What are honour vs. honor, color vs. colour, defence vs. defense. What are secret'ry vs. secretary.

400
This is a language that combines an invading foreign language with a native language.
What is a creole language?
400
Switzerland has this many official languages.
What is 4?
400
Ukrainian belongs to what language branch?
What is Balto-Slavic?
500

Which group of the Indo-European family became entirely extinct?

What is the Eastern Germanic group?

500
These were the French people who invaded England in 1066.
Who were the Normans?
500
This is the standard dialect of Spanish in Spain. (I will not accept Spanish as an answer).
What is Castilian?
500
This Israeli leader invented 4,000 new words for Hebrew when that language was revived for use in 1948.
Who was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda?
500
This is the country in which you will find the Flemings and the Walloons.
What is Belgium?