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Human Geography
Human Geography Quiz - Language & Religion
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A creolized language forms when the colonized group adopts the language of the dominant group but makes some changes, such as simplifying the grammar and adding words from their former language.
True
A dialect is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
True
A dialect is defined as a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
False
A language of international communication, such as Swahili in East Africa, Hindi in South Asia and Russian in the former Soviet Union is known as the ________.
- branch
- slang
- official language
- dialect
- lingua franca
Lingua Franca
A(n) ________ such as Basque in Europe, is a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
- isolated language
- confining language
- diffusing language
- dead language
- lingua franca
Isolated language
A(n) ________ is defined as a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
- vernacular
- universal language
- esperanto
- lingua franca
- creole
Creole
A ________ is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
- branch
- dialect
- slang
- jargon
- street language
Dialect
Looking at Figure English-Speaking Countries, in which of the following countries is English neither the official language nor the de facto language?
- Kenya
- Chad
- India
- South Africa
- Canada
Chad
Which of the following religions is NOT considered a universalizing religion?
- Buddhism
- Sikhism
- Christianity
- Islam
- Judaism
Judaism
Looking at this map of English-Speaking countries, in which of the following countries is English NOT the official language?
* map correction - Ethiopia's official llanguage is Amharic, English is the main foreign language spoken.
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- The USA
- Nigeria
- Canada
The USA
In Nigeria, Hausa,Yoruba, and Igbo are spoken by approximately 30 percent each, and the remaining 10 percent of the population use one of the other 490 languages.
False
Native speakers are people for whom the language is their first, second or third language.
False
Which of the following is an ethnic religion?
- Islam
- Buddhism
- Sikhism
- Judaism
- Christianity
Judaism
Russian is an example of an isolated language and it is unrelated to other language families.
False
Spoken across an 8,000-kilometer (5,000-mile) band of Asia between Turkey and China, the Altaic language family is spoke by the largest number of people in the world.
False
Swahili in East Africa and Hindi in South Asia are two examples of lingua francas.
True
The major events in the development of ________ as an ethnic religion took place in Palestine/Israel, and the religion's customs and rituals acquire meaning from the agricultural life of the ancient Hebrew tribe.
- Islam
- Bahá'í
- Sikhism
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Judaism
Judaism
The world's leading lingua franca is
- French
- German
- English
- Spanish
- Chinese
English
This is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
- Language group
- Language sets
- Language family
- None of the answer choices are correct.
Language branch
Language family
This religion has nearly 400 million adherents, mainly in China and Southeast Asia.
- Buddhism
- Shintoism
- Taosm
- Bahá'í
- Hinduism
Buddhism
Thousands of languages are ________. These were once in use, even in the recent past but are no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.
- extinct
- dialects
- endangered
- none of the above
- lingua franca
Extinct
Which of the following is NOT true of languages?
- Approximately 85 languages are spoken by at least 10 million people
- Language is a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning
- Language is a system of communication through speech.
- All languages have a literary tradition, or a system of written communication
- About 304 languages are spoken by between 1 million and 10 million people
All languages have a literary tradition, or a system of written communication
Which of the following is an accurate definition of a sect?
- A large and fundamental division within a religion
- A group of people who owe their allegiance to no one
- Men who dress up in funny clothes and like to sing songs to an open flame with no set ideology
- A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body
- A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
Which of the following is true of a language group?
- It is a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago
- It is a group of people for whom the language is their first language.
- It is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
- It is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
- No language group has fewer than 4 billion speakers
It is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
Which of the following languages is becoming increasingly important in the United State as a result of large-scale immigration from Latin America?
- English
- Portuguese
- Chinese
- French
- Spanish
Spanish
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