2nd-Sem (MIDTERMS) (Module 1) (Module 2)

Question 1

Language Related to each other

Answer 1

Language Family

Question 2

How many language family based from ethnologue.com

Answer 2

147 Language family

Question 3

How many known living language?

Answer 3

7,105 living language

Question 4

How many deaf languages?

Answer 4

137 deaf languages

Question 5

If you can understand the words variations/dialects of single languages

Answer 5

Criteria for Language family

Question 6

Results into division of languages into dialects

Answer 6

Physical seperation

Question 7

Charles darwin says that

Answer 7

certain languages are related to each other

Question 8

major language family=

Answer 8

one single family

Question 9

Language in the world with the same features

Answer 9

Language tree

Question 10

Ancestors language that splits to many varieties

Answer 10

Protolanguage

Question 11

German+English

Answer 11

Sister, came from one branch

Question 12

Spanish+English

Answer 12

Cousins, same tree diff branch

Question 13

Dialects=

Answer 13

Varieties

Question 14

The indo-european and uralic

Answer 14

Language families

Question 15

How do we identify if language are related?

Answer 15

Comparative method
-reconstruction of an earlier
language or earlier state of a language

Question 16

What is comparative method

Answer 16

to identify if the language is related, find related words, use only native words, reconstruction of an earlier
language or earlier state of a language

Question 17

Relates word in origin

Answer 17

Cognates

Question 18

Came from another language?

Answer 18

Borrowed/Loan word

Question 19

Is there a language older than one another

Answer 19

NOoo

Question 20

Smallest linguistic sign?

Answer 20

Morpheme

Question 21

All languages share certain natural, inherent, or universal features

Answer 21

Language as conventional

Question 22

Are there pure languages?

Answer 22

No

Question 23

Variety of language used for particular purpose, everyone uses a variety of ________.

Answer 23

Register

Question 24

Largest of the western languages, 380m speakers

Answer 24

English

Question 25

Most widely used native language

Answer 25

Chinese

Question 26

If the language share same vocabulary are you sure that they are related

Answer 26

NOooo

Question 27

By comparing basic words with similar meanings, linguists can see whether sounds match up with one another. If sounds regularly match up, linguist call this?

Answer 27

Sound Correspondence

Question 28

Of the 142 different language families, these ----- stand out as the major language families of the world.

Answer 28

6

Question 29

Within Europe, the dominant family is

Answer 29

Indo european

Question 30

In the Mideast and North African region, it is the dominant language fam

Answer 30

Afro asiatic

Question 31

In Asia, the dominant language family in terms of number of speakers is

Answer 31

Sino-Tibetian