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Root Of Languages

Quiz by Mert Mücahit KONDİ

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  • Q1
    What is a proto-language?
    The earliest known ancestor of a group of related languages
    A very primitive language
    A very advanced language
    A basic form of a language as spoken by people learning it
    20s
  • Q2
    Which of these words are most likely to be borrowed from another language?
    Pronouns
    Words for plants and animals
    Words for family members
    20s
  • Q3
    What does it mean for two languages to be related?
    They are spoken in the same country or region
    They evolved from the same older language
    They are written in the same alphabet
    20s
  • Q4
    Which of the following is NOT a reason for linguistic divergence?
    Different brain structure among different groups of people
    Political and historical events
    Migration and encountering different groups and environments
    20s
  • Q5
    What is the difference between a language and a dialect?
    A language must have official status in at least one country
    There is no defined cutoff point
    Dialects are always mutually understandable
    20s
  • Q6
    How many possible languages are there according to the video?
    1500-6000
    4000-6500
    3500-7000
    3000-8000
    45s
  • Q7
    Which of the reasons given down below do NOT explain why it's impossible to give an exact number for how many different languages there are?
    Government archives should be enough to accertain how many languages there were in human history.
    Because there are so many dialects that are more like different languages.
    The further we go back in history information becomes less reliable.
    45s

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