Language Families and Linguistic Diversity MCQ Test 1

1. The Malayo-Polynesian language family primarily spans across which regions?

2. The Nahuatl language, historically associated with the Aztec Empire, belongs to which language family?

3. Which language is spoken in both North and South Korea?

4. Which language family does the Basque language, spoken in parts of Spain and France, belong to?

5. What is the study of language structure known as?

6. Which of the following is a language family that includes languages such as Swahili, Somali, and Oromo?

7. Which language family includes languages such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and Wu?

8. The Sámi languages, spoken in parts of Scandinavia and Russia, belong to which language family?

9. Which continent is home to the majority of Austroasiatic languages?

10. Which of these is a major language from the Nilo-Saharan family?

11. What is the primary characteristic of an isolating language?

12. Which language family does English primarily belong to?

13. Which of the following is a language family that includes Turkish and Azerbaijani?

14. Which of these is a representative language of the Niger-Congo family?

15. What is the term for a language variety that is widely used for communication between speakers of different languages?

16. The language of the Cherokee people is associated with which language family?

17. Which language family includes languages such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese?

18. What is the most spoken language family in the world?

19. Which linguistic subfield studies the historical development of languages?

20. What term describes the study of language in its social context?

21. What is the official language of Nigeria?

22. What is the primary language spoken in Switzerland?

23. Which linguistic theory posits that language shapes the way we think and perceive the world?

24. Which language is not Indo-European?

25. Which language is written in the Cyrillic script?

26. Which language uses a logographic writing system?

27. What is the term for a language that is no longer spoken or has no native speakers?

28. Which linguistic approach emphasizes the importance of context and the role of communication in understanding meaning?

29. Which language family does Arabic belong to?

30. Which language is written in the Devanagari script?

31. What term describes the study of sign languages?

32. Which language family includes English, German, and Dutch?

33. The Uralic language family includes which of the following languages?

34. What linguistic term describes a word that has been formed by blending parts of two or more words?

35. Which language family does French belong to?

36. The Chukotko-Kamchatkan family is primarily spoken in which region?

37. The Dravidian language family is primarily associated with which country?

38. Which language family does Mandarin belong to?

39. What is the official language of Japan?

40. Which continent is home to the most language families?

41. What is the term for a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between people who do not share a common language?

42. What is the term for the study of word meanings and their relationships within a language?

43. Which language family includes languages such as Japanese and Korean?

44. What is the term for a group of languages that share a common ancestor?

45. Which linguistic theory emphasizes the role of social factors in language variation?

46. What is the term for a language that has no known relatives and is not related to any other language?

47. What is the primary language spoken in Iran?

48. Which language family includes languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic?

49. What is the most widely spoken language in South America?

50. Which term refers to a regional or social variety of a language that has distinct phonological, grammatical, and lexical features?