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All About Germanic Languages: Multiple Choice
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- 01Which of the following is a North Germanic language, also known as a Scandinavian language?
- 02What is the name of the reconstructed, unattested proto-language from which all Germanic languages descend?
- 03The earliest surviving literary work in any Germanic language is a 4th-century Bible translation into which language?
- 04The Germanic languages are traditionally divided into three branches. Which branch is now entirely extinct?
- 05Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia, is a daughter language of which West Germanic tongue?
- 06The set of sound laws that describes the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic is known as what?
- 07Which language is considered the closest living relative of English?
- 08By number of native speakers, which is the most widely spoken Germanic language?
- 09The runic alphabets, such as the Elder Futhark, were the native writing systems for which group of languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet?
- 10Which of these languages belongs to the West Germanic branch?