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strangeaffliction

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on: Jul 14, 2018
According to Ethnologue, in a Language Family Tree, the trunk represents
 
  A) dialects.
  B) language families.
  C) language families with at least 9 million speakers.
  D) language families with at least 9 million readers.
  E) a language group.

Question 2

The second-largest language family is
 
  A) Indo-European.
  B) Sino-Tibetan.
  C) Afro-Asiatic.
  D) Austronesian.
  E) Dravidian.


wshriver

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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B


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