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 (known as ‘thorn’, from the runic alphabet) is no longer used in English, having been replaced by the digraph 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

Language shift, language transfer, language replacement and _____ are all used as alternative terms.

• A) language assimilation
• B) Language death
• C) language desertion
• D) cognitive assimilation

Fishman (1991) asserts that a typical case of language shift can happen over ___ generations.

• A) six
• B) three
• C) five
• D) four

Creolization can take place at any point during the ___’s life cycle; it can be any stage ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin.

• A) pidgin
• B) dialect
• C) creole
• D) language

According to Crystal, there are more speakers of English as second or other language than as a ___ language.

• A) third
• B) fifth
• C) first
• D) fourth

Being a native speaker gives a sense of community, and with that a sense of______.

• A) accompany
• B) ideology
• C) identity
• D) power

Which of the following variations occurs in both spoken and written Standard English?

• A) Grammatical
• B) Accent
• C) Pronunciation
• D) Phonological

The creation of a standard variety of any language is very much a _____ one.

• A) sociocultural
• B) social
• C) cultural
• D) sociopolitical