English
This theory thinks that proto-Indo-European was diffused by peaceful means
What is the Sedentary Farmer Hypothesis?
A language used for trade
What is a Lingua Franca
Four most widely used Romance branch languages
What is Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian?
This language is spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world
What is Mandarin?
a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
What is a dialect?
This is known as the Hearth of Modern English
What are the British Isles?
Two dominate languages of Quebec
What is French and English?
English is a part of this particular language branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is Germanic language?
What is Swahili?
a subdivision of a dialect
What is a subdialect?
This theory thinks proto-Indo-European was diffused through a violent means
What is the Kurgan Hypothesis?
Most commonly used Lingua franca
What is English?
This branch includes more than 100 individual languages. It is divided into an Eastern (Indic) group and an Iranian group.
What is the Indo-Iranian branch?
British and American English differ in these three categories
What is pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary?
a boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominate
What is a isogloss?
mix of German and English
What is Denglish?
This language is an example of an isolated language because of remote location in the Pyrenees Mountains
What is Basque?
Balto-Slavic languages are predominate in this region of Europe?
What Eastern Europe?
Language family that is spoken mainly in China.
What is Sino-Tibetan language family?
A language created from a combination a native language and colonizer language
What is a creole language?
English falls within this language family?
What is Indo European?
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use
What is an extinct language?
Language branch that is most widely used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
What is Indo-Aryan language branch?
These are shown as roots on the language diagram in our textbook
What are superfamilies?
A symbol used to represent concepts or ideas, not sounds.
What is a Logogram/ideogram?