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The study of languages and language structure
What is linguistics?
100
A system of sounds, including written symbols
What is language?
100
10,000 words
How many words were added to the English language post Norman conquest?
100
The language English derived from
What is Germanic?
100
Large early language family
What is Indo-European?
200
The words of a language or vocabulary of a speaker
What is lexicon?
200
Word order and arrangement
What is syntax?
200
A Middle English poem
What is The Canterbury Tales?
200
The Latin word for "beyond"
What is extra?
200
Inventor of the movable-type printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenburg?
300
The regional differences of a language
What is a dialect?
300
A language spoken by those who lived in northern Germany and Scandinavian countries
What is Germanic?
300
Author of The Canterbury Tales
Who is Gregory Chaucer?
300
The year the Normans invaded the British Isles
What is 1066 C.E.?
300
William Caxton's influence on the development of language
What is standardization of spelling and grammar?
400
Unchanging
What is static?
400
A word added to the English language by Shakespeare
What is dwindle?
400
One of the earliest and greatest Old English epic poems written by an unknown author
What is Beowulf?
400
Language spoken by the Normans
What is French?
400
How words were added to the English language
What are mass immigration, invasion, colonization and trade?
500
The pattern or melody of pitch changes in speech?
What is intonation?
500
Metaphors created by hyphenating two existing words to create a third word with a new meaning
What is a kenning?
500
Shakespeare's influence on the development of English
What are new words?
500
Germanic tribes who invaded the British Isles in the fifth and sixth centuries?
Who are the Angles, Saxons and Jutes?
500
Latin began to influence language in this year
When is 597 C.E.?
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