Intro To Languages Quiz Review
How to Play Form two teams Send a team member up to the front to answer the question Players: take a flyswatter, listen to the question and slap the flyswatter on the stool when you know the answer Return to your seat and repeat with the next player.
Question 1 What is the exchange or transfer of meaning. It is a tool of communication?
Answer 1 Language
Question 2 A person who studies languages is called a …
Answer 2 Linguist
Question 3 Name a non-linguistic form of communication.
Answer 3 Symbol or Gesture
Question 4 This is an example of a…
Answer 4 Symbol
Question 5 This is an example of a…
Answer 5 Gesture
Question 6 A symbol or drawing that represents a specific object such as a fish or a chair is a…
Answer 6 Pictograph
Question 7 A symbol for “non-picturable” things is an…
Answer 7 Ideograph
Question 8 Most European languages belong to the ______________________ language family.
Answer 8 Indo-European
Question 9 The people who spoke Indo-European languages lived in __________, and also in parts of _____________.
Answer 9 Europe and Asia
Question 10 Name a language that belongs on one of the branches of the Indo-European family tree.
Answer 10 Germanic, Celtic, Romance, Balto-Slavic or Indo-Iranian
Question 11 Name a Germanic Language.
Answer 11 German, English or Dutch
Question 12 Name a Celtic Language.
Answer 12 Irish, Welsh, Scots, Breton
Question 13 Name a Romantic language.
Answer 13 Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
Question 14 Name a Balto-Slavic Language.
Answer 14 Slovak, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech
Question 15 Name an Indo-Iranian language.
Answer 15 Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Farsi
Question 16 Romance languages developed from this root language…
Answer 17 Latin
Question 18 Why are they are called “Romance” languages?
Answer 18 They were first spoken by the Romans.
Question 19 Which language is it? (Spanish, French, Italian, German or Latin) manus
Answer 19 Latin
Question 20 Which language is it? (Spanish, French, Italian, German or Latin) alfabeto
Answer 20 Spanish
Question 21 Which language is it? (Spanish, French, Italian, German or Latin) Buch
Answer 21 German
Question 22 Which language is it? (Spanish, French, Italian, German or Latin) pain
Answer 22 French
Question 23 Which language is it? (Spanish, French, Italian, German or Latin) classe
Answer 23 Italian
Question 24 Words in different languages which have come from the same origin are called…
Answer 24 Cognates
Question 25 Name an example of a cognate.
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