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Quiz 1 modern English Flashcards

1
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  1. How Welsh is a mutating language.
A

The initial sounds of words changes according to grammatical number.

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  1. The surviving Brythonic Celtic languages.
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Welch and Breton

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  1. The surviving Goidelic Celtic languages.
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Irish and Scottish

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  1. The name that this 18th-century British magistrate gave to his discovery.
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Indo-European

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5
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  1. The correct phonological terms for the linguistic phenomenon observed and codified by Jacob Grimm
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Voiceless stop - Fricative - Voiced Stop

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  1. The linguist who explained that this discrepancy was a negligible factor which did not entirely refute Grimm’s Law
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Verner

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  1. The remaining pure Romance languages besides Latin, Portuguese, Mallorquin, Valenciano, Catalan, Occitan, Provençal, Romansch, and Romanian
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French, Italian, Spanish

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  1. The remaining pure Germanic languages besides Luxembourgish, Afrikaans/Dutch/Flemish, Frisian, Icelandic, and Swedish
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German, Norwegian, Danish

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  1. The remaining pure Slavic language besides Slavonic, Serbian, Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Slavic Macedonian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Belorussian, and Ukrainian
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Russian

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  1. The remaining Baltic language besides Latvian
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Lithuanian

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  1. The remaining Uralic language besides Estonian, Saami, and Finnish
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Hungarian

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  1. The other hybrid Germanic language besides Yiddish
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English

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13
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  1. The European language with no known relatives or ancestor
A

Basque

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  1. The contemporary European language that evolved from the Latin spoken by the Germanic tribes known as the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Allemans
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French

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  1. The contemporary European language that evolved from the Latin spoken by the Germanic tribes known as the Ostrogoths and the Lombards
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Italian

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  1. The contemporary European languages—besides Mallorquin, Valenciano, Catalan, and Occitan—that evolved from the Latin spoken by the Germanic tribes known as the Vandals and the Visigoths
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Spanish and Portuguese

17
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  1. The remaining Germanic tribes—besides the Jutes from modern-day Jutland in Denmark—who migrated to, invaded, and occupied the British Isles shortly after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the mid 5th-century CE
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Saxons and Angles

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  1. The correct linguistic terms that describe the transformation of “Old English” and “Old Norse” before they merged and after they merged
A

From inflectic to analytic

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