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LING 115 FinalIf a language has over 10,000 speakers, it's safe and going to continue into
the future - correct answer ✔False
96% of the world's languages are spoken by 4% of the world's population -
correct answer ✔True
Code switching is one of the causes of language shift - correct answer
✔False
The second stand in the 3-generation language shift model is bilingualism -
correct answer ✔True
One of the places with the most language extinction is - correct answer
✔North America
In the town of Oberwart, the oldest generation spoke - 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... - 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 minority language survives in the
presence of a more dominant language group is - 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 - correct answer ✔a top-down pressure
A language with speakers in the 30's but no speakers under the age of 20
should be described as - correct answer ✔Endangered
The 1998 earthquake in Papua New Guinea is an example of which factor that
can causes language loss - correct answer ✔Loss of speakers
What does not help language be revitalized - correct answer ✔Teaching the
language as a foreign subject in high school
What factor was influential in the survival of Mwang - correct answer ✔The
isolation of the speakers
What did not contribute to the revival of Hebrew speakers? - correct answer
✔The existence of living mother-tongue speakers. Being associated with the
Jewish religion, having a wealthy community looking to revive the language,
and the association between being Hebrew and Israeli did.
The Eisteddford could be described as a top-down pressure T/F - correct
answer ✔F
The biggest challenge facing Hawaiian is - correct answer ✔A lack of well
paying jobs requiring Hawaiian
How many of the world's languages does David Chrystal believe will be gone
in the next 100 years - correct answer ✔3,000
, Karitiana is an endangered language because it has only 185 speakers T/F -
correct answer ✔False
Minority languages in regard to language shift have.... - correct answer
✔Less prestige, fewer speakers, and are less wealthy/powerful
Immigrant communities... - correct answer ✔Often speak a minority
language but can deprive it of prestige because it's just something they do at
home
Places where a minority language exists with a dominant language - correct
answer ✔Basque in Spain and indigenous languages in Americas. If
everyone in Spain switches to Spanish, then Basque is done
3 generation effect - correct answer ✔1st generation learns just enough of
majority language for survival skills, 2nd generation is bilingual and does
translating for parents, and 3rd generation is loss of minority language and
move to majority
Oberwart language shift - correct answer ✔Changed hands from Hungary to
Austria at the end of WWI, 1st generation wanted kids to be proficient in
German for success and needed to learn German to communicate with the
government. 2nd generation uses German for friends and for their kids and for
government officials. Third generation only speaks survival skills Hungarian to
talk to elders (only using Hungarian for church and with grandparents)
Reasons for language shift - correct answer ✔Demographic factors,
economic factors, size of minority group, social factors, political factors,
school, and intermarriage
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