Exam 7: The Geography of Language

In the 1800s a Latin language known as Dalmatian existed on the Dalmatian coast that is today mainly Croatia.Today it no longer exists, so which of the following is true?

Examining the Indo-European family pattern on the map of language families shows

According to the map of global English use, Quebec in Canada shows

According to the map of global English use, South Asia is

Interestingly, the populated region of northern Utah according to the map of dialect migration regions in the United States is

A main reason you find English spoken broadly throughout the globe was that

A collection of languages in one family will be related and descended from a

On the language families map, Arabic

Though most linguists recognize Uralic and Altaic as two separate language families, on the map of language families they are shown as

After World War II, in Bucharest, Romania, street names

The widest spoken lingua franca in the world is

Though Japanese is a language isolate, Ainu

Blur your vision and look at the map of language extinction.The pattern you see generally corresponds with

The origins of runes are unclear but they were probably developed by

The Indo-European language family

We know that Latin no longer exists, rather, changed over time into something new.Which of the following best depicts this change?

The best example of a recently borrowed 'loan word' in English would be

Creole languages where two or more languages become fused in permanent usage could be seen as examples of

To say that Rotokas, a language in New Guinea, has only 11 phonemes is saying that

A simplified language spoken by different peoples for common communication and generally not a native language of anyone using it is called