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9 Cards in this Set
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The Germanic and Latinate languagesare the major contributors to the development of English.
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True
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There is no recorded evidence of a Proto-Indo-European language.
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True
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The English language has acquired the words noodle, pretzel, and delicatessen from German.
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True
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Modern Greek is the single surviving representative of hte Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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True
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Such words as alchemy, algebra, and cipher have entered the English language from the languages of India.
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False
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The Roman occupation of Britain is preserved by the suffix -cester, -chester (Worcester, Dorchester), which derives from the Latin word for "camp."
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True
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Ironically, Engilsh hasn't borrowed any vocabulary from the languages of Native Americans.
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False
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It is easy to determine wheter a Latinate word in English derives directly from Latin or enters English via French.
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False
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Most of the principal languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European family.
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True
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