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LING 115 FinalIf a language has over 10,000 speakers, it's safe and going to continue into
the future.
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T/F - correct answer ✔F
96% of the world's languages are spoken by 4% of the world's population.
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T/F - correct answer ✔T
Code-switching is one of the causes of language shift.
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T/F - correct answer ✔F
The second stage in the 3-generation language shift model is bilingualism.
Answers:
T/F - correct answer ✔T
One of the places with the most language extinction is:
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,- Papua New Guinea
- North America
- Kenya
- Europe - correct answer ✔North America
In the town of Oberwart, the oldest generation spoke:
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- Hungarian with survival skills German
- German with survival skills Hungarian
- German and Hungarian equally well (bilingual)
- Only German - correct answer ✔Hungarian with survival skills German
If a speaker of a minority language gets made fun of at school for not
speaking the majority language well, that speaker will most likely...
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- Work really hard to learn the majority language, but speak the minority
language often because they're proud of it.
- Work really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the
minority language because they're ashamed of it.
- Refuse to speak the majority language because they're ashamed of their
language skills, thus reinforcing their minority language skills.
- Speak the minority language and the majority language the same as they
always have. (The bullying won't have any effect.) - correct answer ✔Work
really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the minority
language because they're ashamed of it.
, One of the best ways to ensure that a minority language survives in the
presence of a more dominant language group is
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- to house the speakers in the middle of a big city.
- to require that the students take the minority language as a foreign language
in middle school or high school.
- to have speakers of the minority language intermarry with the speakers of
the dominant language.
- to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting. - correct
answer ✔to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting.
The treatment of a Kikuyu speaker under English colonial rule in Kenya could
be described as
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- a top-down pressure
- a bottom-up pressure
- encouragement for the minority language - correct answer ✔a top-down
pressure
A language with speakers in their 30's but no speakers under the age of 20
should be described as
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- Safe
- Extinct
- Endangered
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