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How many?/ Where?
100
This language family contains Bengali, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, and English.
What is Indo-European?
100
Which two Asian languages are also language families?
What are Japanese and Korean?
100
Kemal Ataturk of Turkey ordered Turks to use ________letters instead of Arabic. Why?
What is Roman? He wanted to increase communication with Europe.
100
Russian, Ukranian, Polish, and Czech are on this branch.
What is Balto-Slavic?
100
More than_______languages have been identified in Africa. 10, 100, 1000, 10,000
What is 1000?
200
Mandarin, Tai-Kadai, and Cantonese are part of this family.
What is Sino-Tibetan?
200
Which African language is on the West Germanic branch with English and German?
What is Afrikaans?
200
The only official language of Quebec.
What is French?
200
This branch consists of Mongolian, Turkish, Turkmen, and Azerbaijani.
What is Altaic?
200
The most commonly spoken language in the world is _______, with 845 million native speakers.
What is Mandarin?
300
Rwanda, Zulu, and many other south African languages (with the exception of____________) are part of this language family.
What is Niger-Congo?
300
Albanian, Armenian, and ________are separate branches hanging off the Indo-European language tree trunk.
What is Greek?
300
The official language of the United States.
What is "there is no official language!"
300
Hindi, Bengali, Kashmiri, and Urdu are on this language branch.
What is Indo-Aryan?
400
Javanese, Indonesian, and Tagalog are part of this language family.
What is Austronesian?
400
Hungarian (Magyar), Estonian, and which other language are on the Uralic branch? Why?
What is Finnish?
400
A common religion or a common __________can unite an area.
What is language?
400
This branch is located in Northern Africa. It contains Arabic and Hebrew.
What is Afro-Asiatic?
400
Mandarin is not spoken all over China. _____________is spoken in the east, in the population centers.
What is Cantonese?
500
Vietnamese is part of this language family.
What is Austro-Asiatic?
500
Which African language is on the West Germanic branch with Dutch? Why?
What is Afrikaans? Dutch influence
500
What language is the native language of Austria?
What is German?
500
Haitian Creole is a language similar to __________, and is on the __________language branch.
What is French, Romance.
500
Is English a romance language?
What is NO!