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Language 100
Point where pidgin evolves to
become primary language.
What is? A. Creole
What is? B. Dialect
What is? C. Indo-European family
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Language 200
Geographically distinct
versions of the same language
What is? A Creole
What is? B. Dialect
What is? C. Indo-European family
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Language 300
50% of the world’s people speak
languages belonging this family
What is? A. Sino-Tibetan family
What is? B. Language family
What is? C. Indo-European family
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Language 400
Occurs when a language is no
longer in use by any living
people.
What is? A. Language diversity
What is? B. Language lingua franca
What is? C. Language extinction
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Language 100
One of the oldest, diverse
and complex cultural trait.
What is? A. Religion
What is? B. Family
What is? C. Language
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Language 200
20% of the world’s people
speak languages from this
family.
What is? A. Indo-European
What is? B. Sino-Tibetan family
What is? C. Afro-Asiatic
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Language 300
30 % of the world’s people
speak a language from this
family.
What is? A. Sino-Tibetan
What is? B. Afro-Asiatic
What is? C. Indo-European
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Language 400
Number of languages spoken in prehistoric time.
What is? A. 6,000
What is? B. 8,000
What is? C. 10,000
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Languages 100
Number of languages
spoken today.
What is? A. 1,000 to 3,000
What is? B. 5,000 to 7,000
What is? C. 9,000 to 11,000
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Languages 200
On the broadest scale, all
languages belong to this.
What is? A. Language Group
What is? B. Language Family
What is? C. Language Dialect
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Language 300
Language families can also be
divided into smaller ones of
these.
What is? A. Language Clans
What is? B. Language Societies
What is? C. Language Groups
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Language 400
Spanish and Italian are
members of this family.
What is? A. Hate languages
What is? B. Romance languages
What is? C. Just friends language
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Language 100
When two groups of people meet,
a new language with similar
characteristics of each may result.
What is? A. Creole
What is? B. Lingua Franca
What is? C. Pidgin
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Language 200
Known as the language of
“Trade”
What is? A. English
What is? B. Lingua Franca
What is? C. Lingua Frio
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Language 300
Language that all government
business must occur.
What is? A. English
What is? B. Official language
What is? C. Lingua Franca
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Language 400
Cause of most language
extinction today.
What is? A. Acculturation
What is? B. MTV
What is? C. Internet
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Final Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy: Language
The names cultures give to
various features on the earth.
What is? A. topographical
What is? B. topography
What s? C. toponym
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