Language Families, Branches, and Groups.
Origin and Diffusion of English
Language Dialects
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What do the leaves represent?
Language groups and individual languages.
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What tribal language attributed a quarter of all current English words?
Germanic tribal languages.
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What is a dialect?
A dialect is regional variation of a language characterized by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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What decreases as you move down a language branch?
The number of speakers decreases.
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What language was the earliest contributor to the English language?
The Roman language; Vulgar Latin
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What are the three main dialects of the colonial United States?
The three main dialects are New England, Southeastern, and Midlands.
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What common characteristics are exhibited in language groups?
Vocabulary, grammer, and pronunciation.
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In what do English dialects differ?
They differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, and spelling.
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Which language has the most dialects and why?
English has the most dialects as it is the most wide spread language in the world.
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What is the most spoken language family currently?
The most spoken language family currently is Indo- European
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Who spread English around the world, and through what diffusion?
The British spread English through relocation diffusion and colonization.
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What are vernacular regions based on language dialects called?
They are isoglosses.
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Latin, crylic, arabic, and chinese.
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The Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, the Romans, the Celts, the Vikings, Greeks, and the Normans.
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Why are there so many dialects of English in the United States?
There are many dialects due to the amount of immigrants that created the country. When new immigrants came to the US, they added their own language into the English that currently existed.