User:Marshallsumter/Languages and language families/Quiz

Languages and language families is an effort, in a lecture format, to describe the components of a languages and language families, often as applied in linguistics.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, A language that can be shown to have evolved from the same ancestor as another language is in the same language family as the latter. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, There are approximately 3,000–6,000 languages that are spoken by humans today. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, A language family is a set of languages which have evolved from a common ancestor. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, The scientific study of language is called linguistics. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, Most languages in Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, In Europe there is the Basque language which is an isolate unrelated to any other group. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, English is in the Maiduan family of languages. - Yes + No
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{Yes or No, A form of communication using words either spoken or gestured with the hands and structured with grammar, often with a writing system, is called a language. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, The Maltese language is the only Semitic language with national language status in Europe. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, Several languages of Europe are classified as endangered languages. + Yes - No
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Language families are genetically related to the local hominin populations.