MCQ Bank
The functionality of languages is determined by ______.
- A) linguists
- B) speakers
- C) society
- D) culture
Media has ________ the language choices in Pakistan.
- A) narrowed
- B) broadened
- C) influenced
- D) motivated
Decreolization can be termed as changes which bring a ____closer to its superstrate language.
- A) language
- B) creole
- C) dialect
- D) pidigin
The range of varieties spanning between basilect and acrolect is called a ______ continuum.
- A) pre & post creole
- B) post creole
- C) creole
- D) pre creole
Sociolinguists call the creole the____.
- A) Acrolect
- B) Style
- C) Dialect
- D) Basilect
A less prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language is known as ------------.
- A) mesolect
- B) basilect
- C) acrolect
- D) lect
The process whereby a community of speakers of a language shifts to speaking a completely different language, usually over an extended period of time is called
-----------.
- A) language transfer
- B) all the given options
- C) language shift
- D) language replacement
Cameroon, is a country the size of Sweden, has approximately ___ languages.
- A) 380
- B) 480
- C) 370
- D) 280
Which country forbids the use of its national language Bislama?
- A) Denmark
- B) Vanuatu
- C) Sweden
- D) Chile
The process, or the event, in which a population changes from using one language to another is called language ______.
- A) death
- B) shift
- C) change
- D) maintenance
Galim has approximately ____ inhabitants.
- A) 4000
- B) 3000
- C) 5000
- D) 6000
The phenomenon of abandoning the use of one language in favour of another language is called -------------.
- A) language death
- B) language endangerment
- C) language desertion
- D) language change
The letter shape <þ> (known as ‘thorn’, from the runic alphabet) is no longer used in English, having been replaced by the digraph <th>.This is an example of ___ change.
- A) semantic
- B) orthographic
- C) morphological
- D) lexical
The Korean writing system is called Han&gu¨l. It has _____basic symbols representing the sounds of Korean.
- A) twenty-eight
- B) twenty-six
- C) twenty-four
- D) twenty-five
Only ____ per cent of the Australian-born population regularly uses a language other than English.
- A) 3.2
- B) 8.2
- C) 6.2
- D) 4.2
In United Kingdom, English is spoken by ___________ percent of the population over the age of three.
- A) 93
- B) 96
- C) 98
- D) 94
Black English in the United States is a variety in the late stages of ___.
- A) decreolization
- B) pidginization
- C) all of the given options
- D) creolization
Which of the following languages is the main lingua franca, and is spoken by everybody in Galim?
- A) Hausa
- B) Fula
- C) Chamba
- D) Nizaa
Languages of Galim can be divided into ___ groups.
- A) six
- B) five
- C) three
- D) four
Choose the correct option.
In ________ the necessity of using English has overpowered antipathy towards English and English speakers.
- A) Iceland
- B) England
- C) Britain
- D) Ireland