Vanishing Voices

Unit 9

Pages 208-210

Time: 20:00

Student Information

📖 Instructions

Read the passage from the textbook (pages referenced above) and answer all questions below. Your progress is automatically saved every 2 seconds.

Questions

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