Midterm-languages

Question 0

Material culture

Answer 0

Physical, visible elements

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

A way of life?

Question 2

Non-material culture

Answer 2

Invisible intangible

Question 3

Non gentically predetermined

Answer 3

Non material

Question 4

T/F not a result of biological inheritance

Answer 4

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Question 5

What is one of the central components of culture in Africa?

Answer 5

Language.

Question 6

How many languages worldwide?

Answer 6

30000

Question 7

How many languages are African?

Answer 7

1/3

Question 8

An African language has how many speakers?

Answer 8

About 200,000 speakers

Question 9

T/F African countries have standard/official languages

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Anglophone - Liberia, South Africa are

Answer 10

Some classifications that countries are under English

Question 11

Francophone - Togo, Gabon speak what?

Answer 11

French

Question 12

Lusophone - Angola, Mozambique speak what?

Answer 12

Portuguese

Question 13

Monolingual countries speak how many languages?

Answer 13

1 e.g. Arabic, North Africa, except Algeria.

Question 14

Bilingual countries?

Answer 14

Cameroon and South Africa

Question 15

Which countries are multilingual?

Answer 15

Senegal and Nigeria

Question 16

Apart from Arabic, which is the most widespread spoken language? How many speakers roughly?

Answer 16

Swahili and Hausa, each with more than 30 million speakers

Question 17

African Languages belong to different what?

Answer 17

Different language families - specifically 6 different ones

Question 18

How many African language families are there?

Answer 18

6

Question 19

What is the most important language in the Afro-Asiatic group?

Answer 19

Arabic

Question 20

Afro-Asiatic or Hamito- semantic is one language family - this is the most important language in North Africa. Includes languages spoken in Asia (Middle East) and North Africa

Answer 20

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Question 21

Amharric, in the Afro- Asiatic family, is the official language of what?

Answer 21

Ethiopia

Question 22

Other Semitic languages include

Answer 22

Tigre in Eritrea, Berber language in Northwest Africa, and Somali in Samalia

Question 23

Nilo - Saharan Languages: spoken along parts of the Nile in; Chad, Uganda, Western Sudan, Western Kenya

Answer 23

Second language family

Question 24

Khoisan: smallest language family in Africa.

Answer 24

- Has no more than 100,000 speakers altogether. - mostly spoken by the Khoikhoi and the San of South Eastern Africa. - the languages in this group are also sometimes called the "click" languages.

Question 25

(4) Niger-Congo - kordofanian

Answer 25

This language family is made up of two subfamilies; Niger-Congo and Kardofanian. -the Kordofanian subfamily is made up of 30 languages - all of them found in the Nubia Hills of Southern Sudan.

Question 26

Which subfamily language covers almost of Africa? Below the Sahara desert.

Answer 26

Niger-Congo

Question 27

3 of 4 speakers belong. -has several branches: Central-Southern Africa. Examples- Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Swazi, Bemba, kikuyu, Swahili. A branch B branch West sudanic languages in the Niger Delta. C - Kwa Branch: Akan in the west Africa. D West Atlantic branch

Answer 27

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Question 28

5th language?

Answer 28

Malaya-Polynesian family | E.g. Malagasy in Madagascar

Question 29

6th language?

Answer 29

Indo-European family: Has 2 members: English and Afrikaans. They are indigenous to groups in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Liberia

Question 30

To simplify communication, some nations have adopted national and regional languages such as: A-Hausa in parts of West Africa B- Swahili or Kiswahili in East Africa.

Answer 30

National and regional languages

Question 31

A Bantu language that belongs to the Niger-Congo language family?

Answer 31

Swahili

Question 32

Swahili serves as a national or official language in at least how many nations? Which ones?

Answer 32

4 - Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Comerous,

Question 33

1 - Through more than 12 centuries of contact between Arabic speakers and coastal East African communities, 2- due to contact with European and other societies over the past 5 centuries, some Swahili words are derived from:

Answer 33

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