- •1. To which group of Germanic languages does English belong?
- •2. From the name of what tribes does the word “English” come?
- •Proto English
- •26. Who did write Epic poem “Beowulf”?
- •Anglo-Saxon
- •46. To which language family does the Germanic language belong?
- •Geoffrey Chaucer
- •112. The most widely spoken Germanic languages are
- •Introduction of Christianity
- •Geoffrey Chaucer
- •William Shakespeare
- •Germanic
- •The Runic and the Latin
- •256. Which alphabets were used in Old English?
- •279. Which alphabets were used in Old English?
- •280. Which division of the English language did Henry Sweet propose?
- •William Shakespeare
- •English
- •English
- •Northumbrian
- •Kentish
- •Northumbrian
- •Northumbrian
- •Late West Saxon
Late West Saxon
Britannia
Scotland
492. The main source of the culture of the Germanic people in the ancient time:
Jamaican Patois
Nigerian Pidgin
Tacitus Germania
Tok Pisin
Norman Conquest
493. The original Celtic languages remained in parts of ………
France, Britain
Northerland
Scotland, Wales, Cornwall
Scotland
United Kingdom
494. Proto English is the language of:
A) French people
B) Italians
C) Celtics
D) We speak in nowadays
E) Germanic tribes
495. What is the “description of internal linguistic history”?
A) Branch of language
B) English words
C) Division of language into linguistic levels
D) Structural grammar
E) Phonetics of language
496. Point to Latin words which entered the vocabulary of Germanic language:
A) chest, devil
B) anchor, butter
C) point, camp, cheese
D) dish, wine
E) chocolate, tomato
497. Representatives of the early 19th century’s philologists of the romantic trend?
A) A. Millet
B) Jack London
C) J. Vendryes
D) J.G. Herder, J. W. Grimm
E) O. Kant
498. Representatives of linguistic sociology?
A) Edgar Po
B) Agatha Christy
C) Jack London
D) Bernard Show
E) J. Vendryes, A. Miellet
499. In what century was the invasion of Scandinavian branch?
A) 16th -17th BC
B) 12th-13th BC
C) 14th -15th BC
D) 8th-9th AD
E) 19th BC
500. By what language was the English language originated?
A) Anglo-Scandinavian
B) Anglo-Saxon
C) Anglo-Jutes
D) Anglo-Norman
E) Anglo-Frisian
