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Refer to the textbook passage on pages 208-210
1. Examples of languages with very small numbers of speakers
2. Government actions that may accelerate language loss
3. Knowledge about nature that could disappear with a language
4. An international project aimed at preserving endangered languages
1. A
2. D
3. F
4. H
5. Paragraph A
6. Paragraph B
7. Paragraph D
8. Paragraph E
9. Paragraph H
5. i
6. v
7. ii
8. iii
9. iv
10. Most of the worlds population speaks the same small group of languages.
11. A language disappears approximately once every two weeks.
12. Children always prefer to maintain their native language at school.
13. Governments sometimes legally require the use of dominant languages.
10. TRUE
11. TRUE
12. FALSE
13. TRUE
14. Approximately how many languages are spoken worldwide today?
15. Which project works to document endangered languages?
14. 7,000
15. Enduring Voices Project
16. rapid
17. succeed
18. political
19. the world
20. cultural
21. 78
22. 9
23. medical
24. 300
25. hunter-gatherer