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Indo-European Language Family
Language Families
Definitions
100
This theory thinks that proto-Indo-European was diffused by peaceful means
What is the Sedentary Farmer Hypothesis?
100
A language used for trade
What is a Lingua Franca
100
Four most widely used Romance branch languages
What is Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian
100
Arabic belongs to this language family
What is Afro-Asiatic language family?
100
An array of separate languages that are suspected to be related by prehistoric origin.
What is a language family
200
This is known as the Hearth of Modern English
What are the British Isles?
200
Two dominate languages of Quebec
What is French and English
200
English is a part of this particular language branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is Germanic language
200
This language family includes only one individual language
What is Japanese?
200
Local or regional version of a particular language; there are variations in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
What is Dialect
300
This theory thinks proto-Indo-European was diffused through a violent means
What is the Kurgan Hypothesis?
300
Most commonly used Lingua franca
What is English
300
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?
300
These two languages are surprisingly only related to each other
What is Finnish and Hungarian?
300
An array of languages that helps make up a language branch; the languages in the group share common origin and have similar vocabulary and grammar.
What is a language group
400
This extinct language was once spoken in the south western tip of England
What is Cornish?
400
A rare instance of revival for an extinct language. The Jewish bible was written in this language.
What is Hebrew
400
this branch includes languages such as Cornish, Welsh, and Gaelic
What is the Celtic language branch?
400
Language family that is spoken mainly in China.
What is Sino-Tibetan language family?
400
A language created from a combination a native language and colonizer language
What is a creole language?
500
The most western, outer edges of the European continent
What is the distribution of Celtic Languages?
500
the ability to speak three or more languages
What is multi-lingual?
500
Language branch that is most widely used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
What is Indo-Iranian language branch?
500
The main language family spoken in Africa
What is Niger-Congo?
500
A symbol used to represent concepts or ideas, not sounds.
What is a Logogram/ideogram?
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