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Which of the following living languages is not related to any others in Europe? (30 points)

	Welsh (Cymraeg)
	Finnish (Suomi)
	Hungarian (Magyar)
	Basque (Euskara)
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Which of these commonly-used words is not an acronym? (20 points)

	scuba
	x-ray
	radar
	laser
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Which of the following is NOT an Indo-European language? (30 points)

	Arabic
	English
	Hindi
	Russian
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A "schwa" is not the noise one makes after a particularly filling meal, it is: (30 points)

	an accent mark
	the paragraph symbol
	the "at" sign (@)
	an upside-down "e"
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How many U.S. states have one-syllable names? (20 points)

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In linguistics, what is the term for the smallest unit of meaning? (40 points)

	Grapheme
	Morpheme
	Lexeme
	Phoneme
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In linguistics, IPA stands for what? (10 points)

	Intercontinental Phonetic Alphabet
	International Phonemic Alphabet
	International Phonetic Alphabet
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The sound at the beginning of the English word "the" is represented by what IPA symbol? (40 points)

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	thorn
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