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Where did English come from?

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QUESTION 1/7

Which language family does Old English belong to?

Germanic languages

Romance languages

Slavic languages

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QUESTION 2/7

What event brought a massive amount of French and Latin vocabulary into the English language?

Viking invasion in the 8th to 11th centuries

Spanish conquest in the 15th century

Norman invasion of England in 1066

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QUESTION 3/7

What did Viking invaders add to the mix of the English language?

Borrowings from Arabic

Borrowings from Ancient Greek

Borrowings from Old Norse

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QUESTION 4/7

What can help in identifying the roots of modern English underneath borrowed words?

Comparative linguistics

History textbooks

Art analysis

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QUESTION 5/7

Which sound change occurred to German words starting with "p" after the 6th century?

Shifted to "pf" sound

Shifted to "th" sound

Shifted to "sh" sound

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QUESTION 6/7

What are some English words directly borrowed from Old Norse?

chair and table

book and pen

skirt and skull

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QUESTION 7/7

What is Proto-Indo-European spoken about 6000 years ago considered to be?

The reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European family

A lost language with no descendants

A fictional language

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