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100


  • What is the typical word order in English?


Subject-Verb-Object(SVO)

100


  • Which language among the three uses vowel harmony?


Kyrgyz 

100


  • What kind of morphology does Kyrgyz use?


Agglutinative

100


  • How many cases does Russian have?


Six

100


  • Which two languages are Indo-European in origin?


English and Russian

200


  • What is the typical word order in Kyrgyz?


Subject-Object-Verb (SOV)

200


  • Which language has a strong contrast between voiced and voiceless consonants: [b] vs [p]?



  • Russian or English


200


  • Which language is primarily inflectional?


Russian

200


  • Which language lacks a rich case system and relies more on prepositions?


English

200


  • Which word means “mother” in Kyrgyz?


Эне

300


  • Which language of the three has the most flexible word order?


Russian 

300


  • Name one sound that exists in English but not in Kyrgyz/Russian



  • the [θ] sound (as in “think”)


300


  • English is mostly what type of language morphologically?


Analytic

300


  • How does Kyrgyz indicate the accusative case?



  • by adding a suffix, like “kitepti”
300


  • What is a root word shared between Russian and English due to Indo-European roots?



  •  “мать” and “mother”


400


  • Translate this Kyrgyz sentence to English: “Men kitep okudum.”


I read a book

400


  • How does vowel harmony in Kyrgyz affect suffix choice?



  • suffixes must match the front or back vowel harmony of the word


400


  • Translate and explain this: “bar-dy-m”



  •  “I went” — verb root “bar” + past suffix “-dy” + 1st person suffix “-m”


400


  • What tense is expressed in Russian by “пошёл”?

Past (Perfective)

400


  • True or False: Kyrgyz shares many root words with English.


False

500


  • Explain how English expresses sentence meaning differently than Kyrgyz using word order.



  • English relies strictly on word order to show grammatical roles, while Kyrgyz uses suffixes


500


  • Which language uses stress to change meaning, like ‘record (noun)’ vs ‘record (verb)’?


English

500


  • Give an English equivalent of a morphological structure in Kyrgyz or Russian.



  • I have gone” (uses auxiliary instead of affixes)


500


  • Translate and compare: “I will go” (English), “men baram” (Kyrgyz), “ya poydu” (Russian)



  • English uses auxiliary; Kyrgyz and Russian use future suffix or prefix with root verb.


500


  • Why is vocabulary acquisition harder from Kyrgyz to English than from Russian to English?



  • due to lack of shared etymological roots