Exam 6: Language

Which of the following European countries has a rather sharp division between Flemish speakers in the north and Walloon speakers in the south?

Hawaii is an example of state with

The most widely used Indo-European language today is

Subsequent migrations and empire building caused the decline and marginalization of this subfamily which had brought Indo-European languages to Europe 3,000 years ago.

Most Afghans speak languages from the Dravidian family of languages.

Leopoldville,Congo becomes Kinshasa and Salisbury,Zimbabwe becomes Harare.These are examples of

Which development helped with the rise of national languages beginning in the fourteenth century?

Consider some of the place-names (toponyms)in your state or locality.Apply as many of the ten types of place-names devised by Prof.George Stewart to classify some of your local place-names.Do his categories overlap in some cases?

In 2010,which States had several countries where 60% or more of the people five years and older spoke a language other than English?

The French example demonstrates well the conflicting forces of globalized language and local or national language.  Describe how the French have responded,and how successful they have been.

Bantu migrations marginalized this once widespread African language family which now is found only in dry regions of southwestern Africa)

The two theories of the Proto-Indo-European language dispersal are the conquest theory and

The process of language divergence happened long ago between Spanish and Portuguese,and in more recent centuries is happening in North America with the divergence of

Monolingual countries,in which only one language is spoken,are few in number.Which of the following is not one of these countries?

The French government has _________ to protect French language and culture.

The naming of sports stadiums and other facilities for corporations (e.g.,Petco Park,FedEx Field,Coors Field)is an example of

Nigeria chose __________ as its official language upon independence.

Belgium is a ___________ speaking country.

The greatest concentration of streets memorializing Martin Luther King is found in:

Linguistic extinction occurs when all the speakers of a language either die or choose to speak another language.