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3472461007Which of the language and country associations is most similar to the relationship between Hindi and India? 1. Spanish and the Philippines? 2. Celtic and Denmark? 3.Russian and Ukraine? 4. Mandarin and China?Mandarin and China0
3472461008What language family predominates in Eastern Europe?Eastern Europe. Romance languages predominate in Southern Europe as Balto-Slavic languages do in Eastern Europe.1
3472461009What language family is the most widely spoken in the world?Indo-European2
3472461010What is a creolized language?A local language mixed with the language of a colonial power.3
3472461011What language classification concept represents the largest number of speakers?Language Family4
3472461012Which language family is seen as more significant than its number of speakers would suggest due to its use in the Bible and the Quran, the holiest books of multiple major world religions?Afro-Asiatic5
3472461013Why has a standard Arabic language developed among its 230 million speakers?It has developed due to the influence of the Quran.6
3472461014What country is dominated by Indo-European speakers?Russia7
3472461015What is today's globally predominant lingua franca?English8
3472461016What treaty ensured that Spanish and Portuguese would be diffused to the western portion of the New World?The Treaty of Tordesillas9
3472461017The Romanian language is most closely related to which of the following European languages?Italian10
3472461018Aside from English, what is the other official language of New Zealand?Maori11
3472461019Today the language of international diplomacy is generally recognized as English. What language once held that position?French12
3472461020What is NOT true about the preservation of local languages?Local languages are resurging and reversing the dominance of lingua francas.13
3472461021Which of the following locations does NOT have English as an official language?United States14
3497160707LanguageA system of communication through speech15
3497160708Literary traditionSystem of written communication16
3497160709Official languageOne language used by the government for laws, reports and public objects17
3497160710How many languages are there?About 7,00018
34971607114 most widely used Romance languages?French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese19
34971607123 groups that came together to form the English people and language?The Angles, Jutes, and Saxons20
3497160713Define Vulgar Latin"The masses" of a populace used by ancient Romans21
3497160714How are the variations of dialect distinguished?Vocabulary, Spelling, and pronunciation22
3497160715IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.23
3497160716Standard languageDialect that is well established and widely recognized24
3497160717How many countries in Latin America have Spanish as their official language?1825
3497160718Two most important dialectical divisions in France today?North and South26
3497160719What is the origin of the term Lingua Franca?Originally applied by Arab traders in the Middle Ages27

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