Root Of Languages
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- Q1What is a proto-language?The earliest known ancestor of a group of related languagesA very primitive languageA very advanced languageA basic form of a language as spoken by people learning it20s
- Q2Which of these words are most likely to be borrowed from another language?PronounsWords for plants and animalsWords for family members20s
- Q3What does it mean for two languages to be related?They are spoken in the same country or regionThey evolved from the same older languageThey are written in the same alphabet20s
- Q4Which of the following is NOT a reason for linguistic divergence?Different brain structure among different groups of peoplePolitical and historical eventsMigration and encountering different groups and environments20s
- Q5What is the difference between a language and a dialect?A language must have official status in at least one countryThere is no defined cutoff pointDialects are always mutually understandable20s
- Q6How many possible languages are there according to the video?1500-60004000-65003500-70003000-800045s
- Q7Which 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