Language families/writing systems
Name 5 languages of the Romance language family
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Galician
What is the scientific study of language and its structure, including the morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics?
Linguistics
Studies suggest that bilingualism can delay the onset of which cognitive condition, commonly associated with aging?
Dementia
Università
Italian
What are the 3 writing systems in Japanese language?
Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji
What is the term for the study of the sounds of human speech, including their production and perception?
What language does the word "polyglot" come from? And what does it literally mean?
Greek. Poly = many. Glot =tongue
Tehdä
Finnish
Name 3 languages of the Niger-Congo language family
What term describes a word that has an opposite meaning to another word?
Antonym
What does "lingua franca" mean?
The term for a language that is used as a common means of communication between speakers of different native languages
خداحافظ
Persian
The Austronesian language family has the most amount of languages. YES/NO
No
In linguistics, what term describes the smallest unit of meaning in a language?
Morpheme
In sociolinguistics, what is the phenomenon called when speakers alternate between two or more languages in a conversation?
Code-switching
Mirupafshim
Albanian
Korean
What is the linguistic term for the arrangenent of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language, often referred to as "sentence structure"?
Syntax
"I go to the town walking" is a typical sentence produced by a Spanish learner of English. What is the term for this phenomenon (using the structure of their native language when learning a new language)?
Language transfer
Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseítekért. If you can pronounce it, you get double points!
Hungarian