Approximately number of living languages there are on the Earth at present.
What is 6,900?
100
Chinese is written in this form.
What is ideogram?
100
English is the primary language of North America because of the ______________ of the English Colonies.
What is diffusion?
100
Franglais is the use of __________ in the French language.
What is English?
100
Horse and cattle herders from the grasslands and steppes of present day Russia and Kazakhstan are called
What are Kurgans?
200
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.
What is a language branch?
200
Dravidian is the most important family language in southern
What is India?
200
Both the Anglos and the Normans contributed to the development of the English Language because they invaded
What is England?
200
Basque is primarily spoken in the __________ Mountains.
What is Pyrenees?
200
According to the Anatolian Theory, Indo-European language diffused across Europe with the diffusion of ____________.
What is agriculture?
300
Language with the greatest number of native speakers in the world.
What is Mandarin?
300
Niger-Congo is the most important language family ___________
What is (Sub Saharan) Africa?
300
The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were tribes that lived in this present-day Scandinavian Country.
What is Denmark?
300
The Fleming and Walloons are found in this country.
What is Belgium?
300
A written form of language is known as a _________ tradition.
What is literary?
400
A group of languages that share a common a ancestor before recorded history.
What is a language family?
400
Urdu is the most important language in
What is Pakistan?
400
A regional variation of a language distinguished by a distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation.
What is a dialect?
400
Similar to Brazil but for different reasons, Nigeria has taken this step to reduce to reduce regional tensions that have arisen in large part to linguistic differences.
What is moved its capital to the center?
400
Hindi-Urdu is the most widely spoken Indo-_________ language.
What is European?
500
The two largest language families in the world.
What are Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European.
500
Russian is part of this language branch.
A. Balto Slavic
B. Indo-Iranian
C. Germanic
D. Ramance
What is A - Balto Slavic?
500
Language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages is called lingua _________
What is franca?
500
Because Hebrew was near extinction, today it is considered a _____________ language.