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Reading & Use of English: Part 7
Multiple matching (10 questions)

ACTIVITY 18: You are going to read an extract from an article about four endangered languages. For questions 1-10, choose from the languages (A, B, C or D). The languages may be chosen more than once. Then check the correct answers.

LANGUAGE A Jeru is an Andamanese language spoken by fewer than 20 people on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. These languages are generally believed to be the only ones in South-east Asia surviving from pre-Neolithic times. They are thought to date back to a settlement of the region by the first humans to leave Africa. The Andamanese languages are not known to be related to any others in the world. LANGUAGE B This language contains click sounds like the | sound in its name, which is pronounced like the English interjection tsk! tsk!. N | u is also known as Khomani, and it is spoken by fewer than ten elderly people living in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park of South Africa. It is closely related to Ta'a, which is spoken by about 4,000 people and has the most sounds of any language on earth: 74 consonants, 31 vowels, and four tones. LANGUAGE C This language is spoken by the original inhabitants of Japan. It is used by a small number of old people on the island of Hokkaido in the far north of the country. Ainu has very complicated verbs that incorporate meanings most languages need a whole sentence to express. It is also the means by which an extensive oral literature of folk tales and songs has been handed down from generation to generation. LANGUAGE D Among the inhabitants of Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan are a handful of old people that speak the Austronesian language of Thao. The rest of the community speaks Taiwanese Chinese. The language of Thao is related to others in the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Pacific. It dates back to when the original communities of the Austronesians migrated south and east over 3,000 years ago.

WHICH LANGUAGE...

1.	is thought to have existed in pre-historic times?

2.	is similar to other languages in the Pacific area?

3.	expresses complex meanings in one word?

4.	contains short, sharp sounds as well as vowels and consonants?

5.	is used by some old people on a Japanese island?

6.	is said to have existed three millennia ago?

7.	is spoken by fewer than twenty people?

8.	is similar to another language which contains more than a hundred different sounds?

9.	is used by grandparents to sing songs and tell stories to their grandchildren?

10.	comes from a group of languages which is not related to any others?

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