5 Written Questions

1. Afro-Asiatic and Altaic
2. 6%
3. The chinese languages are based on 420 one-syllable words.
4. Austronesian
5. Vietnamese

5 Matching Questions

1. What is the major Afro-Asiatic language?
2. The Sino-Tibetan family encompasses languages spoken in what countries?
3. Larger language familes can be divided into...
4. What is the most widely used Altaic language?
5. Where is Niger-Congo spoken?

1. a Turkish
2. b People's Republic of China as well as several smaller countries in Southeast Asia.
3. c language branches and language groups.
4. d Niger-Congo is spoken by 95% of the people who live in sub-Saharan Africa
5. e Arabic

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. 4%
   1. What percent of people speak Niger-Congo?
   2. What percent of people speak a language in the Dravidian family?
   3. What percent speak a language in the Sino-Tibetan family?
   4. About 46% of all people speak a language in what family?
2. Altaic languages
   1. Korean may be related to what other languages?
   2. What is the largest Austronesian language?
   3. Korean is not written in...
   4. What is the most widely used Altaic language?
3. Chinese ideograms and two systems of phonetic symbols, one of which is used for foreign terms
   1. Turkish was once written with?
   2. Korean is not written in...
   3. Korean is written in...
   4. Japanese is written in part with...
4. national unity
   1. The structure of the Chinese languages is based on what?
   2. What are the two major languages of the middle east and central Asia?
   3. Where is the language in the Dravidan family mostly spoken?
   4. The relatively small number of languages in China compared to India is a source of what?
5. Tanzania
   1. Arabic is the offical language in how many middle east countries?
   2. Speakers of Austronesian are mostly from what country?
   3. Swahili is the official language of what country?
   4. What is the second largest language family?

5 True/False Questions

1. Every European country is dominated by Indo-European speakers except for which three? → Arabic dominates

   True        False

2. Tanzania is a second language to how many Africans? → Sino-Tibetan

   True        False

3. In 1928, the Turkish government ordered the language to be written with? → The Roman alphabet

   True        False

4. 3/4 of the Chinese people speak what language? → Turkish

   True        False

5. True or False: There is no single Chinese language. → True

   True        False