What is the most commonly spoken language in the world?
What is (Mandarin) Chinese?
100
"To eat" is an example of this part of language.
What is a verb?
100
This Facist dictator of Italy allied himself with Hitler.
Who is Mussolini?
100
This language is dominant in North America.
What is English?
100
What is the syntax of English?
What is SVO (subject, verb, object)?
200
This country's empire spread the English language.
What is Great Britain (England)?
200
This part of language names things.
What is a noun?
200
This machine was powered by a steam engine. It made transportation over land cheaper and faster during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the locomotive/railroad/train?
200
Spanish and Portuguese dominate this continent.
What is South America?
200
What is the syntax of French?
What is SVO (subject, verb, object)?
300
Arabic spread so that people could read this book the Holy Book of Islam.
What is the Koran?
300
"Happily" is an example of this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
300
This is a nation's struggle to end imperialism or colonialism within its borders. Leaders included Gandhi, Kenyatta, Nkrumah, L'Ouverture, and Bolivar.
What is an independence movement?
300
This language is dominant in The Middle East.
What is Arabic?
300
What is an example of a VSO language?
What is Hawaaiin or Classical Arabic?
400
These Spanish colonizers spread Spanish in order to teach Native Americans about the Catholic religion.
Who are missionaries?
400
This part of speech replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
400
This is an extreme belief that your country is the greatest.
What is nationalism?
400
This language dominates India.
What is Hindi?
400
What is linguistics?
What is the science or study of language?
500
This is another word for "spread" that you can find on your Languages of the World map. (Hint=We did NOT learn this word in class. Be a detective.)
What is diffusion?
500
This part of language precedes (goes before) a noun in English and after a noun in Spanish and French.
What is an adjective?
500
These come from the Earth. Nations need these to make manufactured goods and products. Many wars and conflicts developed because of these.
What are natural resources?
500
This major language spreads across Europe and Asia.
What is Russian?
500
This is usually a noun in the sentence, though not always.