Vocab 3
What is sign language
A language that uses a system of hand, facial, and other body movements to communicate.
What was his name?
Sequoyah
The smallest sound unit in a language is a _________.
Phoneme
What did he do and when did he do it?
He made the adaption of the Roman alphabet between 1809-1821.
He said a "funny" _____ and all we heard after that was a cricket.
Pun
Why did he do this?
He had an English book that was written in the Roman alphabet and he didn't Know how to read it;Natives didn't have written languages.
A set of written characters for a language, each representing a syllable is the meaning of __________.
Syllabary
Where did he accomplish this?
In the Americas.
What is a Pidgin?
A form of speech combining words from two or more languages.
How did he do this?
He did this by producing syllabary of 86 characters based on Roman alphabet.