Exploring Language Diversity and Influence on Personal Experiences Quiz

Test your knowledge on tonal languages, linguistic relativity, language families, and more in this sociolinguistics quiz!

#1

Which of the following languages is classified as a tonal language?

English
Mandarin Chinese
Russian
French
#2

What is the approximate number of languages spoken worldwide?

100-200
500-1000
2000-3000
7000+
#3

Which of the following languages does not use the Latin alphabet?

Arabic
Hebrew
Russian
Greek
#4

What is the term for a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of speakers?

Accent
Dialect
Pidgin
Lingua franca
#5

Which of the following languages uses the Cyrillic alphabet?

Armenian
Greek
Serbian
Thai
#6

Which language family does English belong to?

Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Niger-Congo
Afro-Asiatic
#7

What linguistic concept describes the phenomenon where speakers unconsciously adjust their language usage to match that of their conversation partner?

Code-switching
Sociolinguistics
Language convergence
Dialect continuum
#8

What is the term for the study of the history and evolution of languages?

Sociolinguistics
Phonetics
Etymology
Syntax
#9

What linguistic term describes the study of the meaning of words and phrases?

Phonetics
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
#10

What linguistic concept refers to the rules governing the structure of sentences in a language?

Pragmatics
Syntax
Semantics
Morphology
#11

Who introduced the concept of linguistic relativity?

Noam Chomsky
Edward Sapir
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Ferdinand de Saussure
#12

Which of the following languages is classified as a polysynthetic language?

English
Swahili
Inuktitut
Korean
#13

Which linguistic theory suggests that language shapes thought and perception?

Universal Grammar
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic relativity
Language acquisition device
#14

Which linguistic theory posits that language acquisition is innate and follows a universal grammar?

Sociolinguistics
Universal Grammar
Linguistic relativity
Structuralism
#15

Which linguistic theory suggests that language acquisition is influenced by social interactions and environmental factors?

Behaviorism
Universal Grammar
Linguistic relativity
Sociocultural theory

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