Linguistic Anthropologists Can Answer Important Questions About the Past by Looking

question 19

Multiple Choice

Linguistic anthropologists can answer important questions about the past by looking at language.Which of the following options represents a question that could be answered through historical linguistic analysis?

• A) calculating how long the speakers of a given language have lived in a certain region
• B) determining why languages began in one place and not in another
• C) describing how modern speakers of a language are genetically related to one another
• D) calculating exactly how many languages existed in the past

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