Languages and Language Families

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1. Which one of the following Eastern European languages is not part of the Slavic language group? Russian Hungarian Polish Slovak

2. Apart from Lowland–Scottish, which some scholars consider to be an Anglic variety rather than a true language, which minor European continental language is considered to be the most closely related to the English language? Frisian Breton Estonian Walloon

3. Switzerland has four official languages. How many of them belong to the Romance family of languages? 4 1 3 2

4. Which one of the following is not a dialect of the Chinese language? Mandarin Wu Szechuan Cantonese

5. Some scholars divided the history of English into several stages of development. In what stage was the English language when the King James Version of the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare were written? Modern English Early Modern English Middle English Old English

6. The Hebrew language is considered part of which family of languages? Indo-European Afro-Asiatic Dravidian Uralic

7. Which one of the following languages of Northern Europe is not considered a Norse language? Swedish Finnish Norwegian Icelandic

8. Which of the following languages of North American Natives is divided into three linguistic varieties: Lakota, Dakota and Nakota? Mohawk Seneca Sioux Shawnee

9. Which of the following languages of the Southwestern Native Americans was used as a code by the US Marines during World War II? Pima Hopi Apache Navajo

10. The US Army was the first to use Native American code talkers during World War I. Which Eastern American Native language was the basis for that unbreakable code? Seneca Cherokee Seminole Choctaw