Vocabulary
When all descendants perish or when descendants choose to use another language, abandoning the language of their ancestors.
What is extinct language?
The governments that had policies of forced assimilation during the 20th century, including not allowing indigenous people to speak their native languages.
What is America, New Zealand, Canadian, Australian, and Russian?
This man wrote fairy tales and related languages that have similar constants and believed that constants would become softer.
What is Jakob Grimm?
The first step in mapping the distribution of world languages is ______.
A language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce.
What is a lingua franca?
In multilingual states that language selected, often by the educated and politically powerful elite, to promote internal cohesion; usually the language of the courts and governments.
What is official language?
The country Canada is ____.
(Monolingual, multilingual, or bilingual)
What is bilingual?
Linguists use this to try and find the original hearth of language.
What is backward reconstruction?
What are the 3 subfamilies of the European languages?
What is Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages?
The first widely known lingua franca was a ____ _______?
What is a pidgin language?
Countries in which only one language is spoken.
What is monolingual state?
This country's language has no word or term for the concept of a god.
What is Africa?
When a two languages that are collapsing combine into one.
What is language convergence?
On major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that the early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues.
What is conquest theory?
A language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in the place of the older mother tongue.
What is a Creole language?
An explanation for the dominance of Indo-European tongues; this explanation hold that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread from east to west on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and began the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues.
What is conquest theory?
Language reveals _____.
What is the way people and cultures view reality?
The language family that holds English, Flemish, Dutch, Frisian, and low and high German.
What is Germanic?
An alternative agricultural theory proposes that Proto-Indo-European spread with the diffusion of __________.
A lingua franca that starts with the African Bantu language and is mixed with Arabic and Persian; It is the most widely known African language on the Internet; BBC also has a website for this language.
What is Swahili?
A process suggested by German linguist August Schleicher whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects sue to lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages
What is the language divergence?
_____, a scandal that happened in Canada when the government asked a restaurant to provide French translations for all menu items, including pasta.
What is Pastagate?
The area where Proto-Indo-European language began.
What is present-day Turkey?
About ___ of the world's people speak Indo-European tongues.
What is 1/2?
The language that is the only common denominator that binds the multilingual state of India.
What is English?