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17 Cards in this Set
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which is not true of Quebec
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it is almost 100% French speaking
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in technically advanced societies there is likely to be
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a standard language
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there are__principal language families of the world
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20
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the language most widely used as a second language by hundreds of millions of people in India Africa and elsewhere is
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English
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Latin octo (eight) became Italian otto Spanish ocho and French huit this is an example of_________over time in a language family
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sound shift
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two Russian scholars have established the core of what they believe is a pre-proto-Indo-European language named
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Nostratic
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the language tree diagram of language divergence has some branches with dead ends these represent
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extinct languages
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the Proto-Indo-European language homeland lies somewhere north of the
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Black Sea
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which country listed below has a language which is not in the Indo-European family
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Hungary
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the linguistic map of Nigeria reflects extreme fragmentation with nearly_____languages spoken
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400
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Nigeria chose________as its official language upon independence
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English
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a language that is the product of a process of convergence which allows speakers of two or more languages to communicate is
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a lingua franca
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convergence processes yielding a synthesis of several languages produce a pidgin language when this language becomes the first language of a population it is referred to as a
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creole language
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countries in which more than one language are in use are called
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multilingual
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the systematic study of the origin and meaning of place names is called
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toponymy
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the greatest concentration of streets memorializing Martin Luther King are found in
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the south especially georgia
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the naming of sports stadiums and other facilities for corporations (e.g. Petco Park FedEx Field Coors Field) is an example of
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commodification
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