An array of separate languages that are suspected to be related by prehistoric origin.
What is a language family?
100
English belongs to this language family.
What is the Indo-European language family?
100
Four most widely used Romance branch languages
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian
100
A distinctive African American dialect that was influenced by forced migration from slavery in Africa. Example vocabulary words include "gumbo" and "jazz".
What is Ebonics?
100
Popular customs most frequently originate in a) countries with large rural populations. b) less developed countries. c) former communist countries. d) more developed countries. e) equally likely in all of the above.
What is D
200
Local or regional version of a particular language; there are variations in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
What is a dialect?
200
2/3 of the world's population speaks primarily from these two language families.
What is Proto-Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
200
English is a part of this particular language branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is the Germanic language branch?
200
A rare instance of revival for an extinct language. The Jewish bible was written in this language.
What is Hebrew?
200
People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with popular culture primarily because of a) the high cost of popular customs. b) fear of foreign influence. c) concern for the physical environment d) lack of exposure to the media. e) strong desire to preserve unique customs
What is e
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?
300
Language family spoken mainly in Africa.
What is the Niger-Congo language family?
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
2,000 years ago - prior to invasion - it was a major language spoken in the British Isles, northern Italy, and in several parts of Germany. However today it is isolated to France, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
What is Celtic?
300
Popular customs are more likely than folk customs to a) vary from place to place. b) rapidly diffuse through modern communication and transportation. c) have an unknown source of origin. d) reflect the unique characteristics of the landscape. e) evolve from the isolation of different groups
What is B
400
It’s a language created from a combination of two more language into a simplified form.
What is a pidgin language?
400
Language family that is spoken mainly in China.
What is the Sino-Tibetan language family?
400
Four branches of the Indo-European language family.
Germanic, Baltic-Slavic, Romance, Indo-Iranian
4 Minor
Albanian, Armenian, Greek, Celtic
400
Acculturation is a common cause of a) illiteracy. b) language extinction. c) assimilation. d) creolization. e) cultural diffusion.
What is B
400
FREEBIE
What is FREEBIE!
500
It’s a pidgin language with a more developed and more complex vocabulary and structure; it also has also developed into a native language for certain peoples.
What is a creolized language?
500
Spoken by 45% of the world.
What is the Indo-European language family?
500
Language branch that is most widely used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
What is the Indo-Iranian language branch?
500
The lingua franca of international communication TODAY.
What is English?
500
Many less developed countries fear the loss of folk culture because a) they want to avoid political disputes. b) they do not want to preserve traditional values. c) Western perspectives may become more dominant. d) Western clothing styles are less comfortable. e) popular culture devalues women