LOLA JACOBS ANSWERS AFL2601 S1 2023
QUESTION 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Indigenous African languages are one of the official languages in South Africa, and they
belong to which language family?
(a) African languages
(b) Bantu languages
(c) South African languages
(d) Indigenous languages
2. Greenberg classifies most of Sudan languages and the Bantu languages into one family
called…
(a) Congo-Kordofanian family
(b) Benue-Congo family
(c) Niger-Congo family
(d) Sudan-Bantu family
3. Phonetic alphabets facilitate…
(a) Functional speech of sounds
(b) An element of speech of sounds
(c) Language similarity
(d) Comparison of sounds across languages.
4. When you are able to apply some of your knowledge of one language to a new language
this is called …
(a) linguistic improvisation.
(b) language transfer.
(c) automatic translation.
(d) information extraction.
5. Identify the option, which DOES NOT correctly depict what is generally understood by the
term ‘language’.
(a) It equals the linguistic behaviour peculiar to an individual.
(b) It is the generally acceptable medium of verbal communication.
(c) It is the standardized written and spoken language.
(d) It may equal the dialect, which was first reduced to writing.
QUESTION 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Indigenous African languages are one of the official languages in South Africa, and they
belong to which language family?
(a) African languages
(b) Bantu languages
(c) South African languages
(d) Indigenous languages
2. Greenberg classifies most of Sudan languages and the Bantu languages into one family
called…
(a) Congo-Kordofanian family
(b) Benue-Congo family
(c) Niger-Congo family
(d) Sudan-Bantu family
3. Phonetic alphabets facilitate…
(a) Functional speech of sounds
(b) An element of speech of sounds
(c) Language similarity
(d) Comparison of sounds across languages.
4. When you are able to apply some of your knowledge of one language to a new language
this is called …
(a) linguistic improvisation.
(b) language transfer.
(c) automatic translation.
(d) information extraction.
5. Identify the option, which DOES NOT correctly depict what is generally understood by the
term ‘language’.
(a) It equals the linguistic behaviour peculiar to an individual.
(b) It is the generally acceptable medium of verbal communication.
(c) It is the standardized written and spoken language.
(d) It may equal the dialect, which was first reduced to writing.
