Which of the following languages is spoken by the most people in the world today?
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Chinese
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Approximately _____ different languages are spoken in Africa.
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1,000
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Which of the following statements about language in Canada is true?
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Canada's government wants to preserve French within the province of Quebec.
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English and Punjabi belong to the same language family.
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True
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The language of Afrikaans was influenced by all of the following languages except __________.
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American Indian languages
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Quebecois French __________.
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diverged from Parisian French
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The number of languages spoken worldwide is between __________.
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5,000 and 6,000
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Languages are grouped into families based on __________.
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origin, sound, and words
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If we were to examine a vocabulary word for two languages in the same language family (for example, English and German), which of the following would be the most likely result?
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The spelling of the two words might be similar, and some sounds might be the same.
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Language shapes culture, and culture shapes language.
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True
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Haitian Creole developed through the process of language __________.
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convergence
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The English language is part of which language family?
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Indo-European
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