Origin & Diffusion of Language
English decended from _________.
Germanic
English falls into the _________ group of the Germanic language branch of the Indo European family
West Germanic
The names used for soft drinks represent regional dialectical in the US. The three different names are...
•Soda
•Pop
•Coke
Switzerland peacefully __-_____ with multiple languages found in distinct geographical regions
co-exists
_______ _________ is still used by older people but is not being transmitted to children.
Dying language
After years of conflict with the French, ________ became the official language of the court and law in the 14th century in England
English
Balto-Slavic languages were previously the biggest ones in ______ _______.
Eastern Europe
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between a _______ and a ______
language, dialect
_________ are place names
Toponyms
_______-_________ is the second most popular language spoken in the world.
Sino-Tibetan
The Roman Empire was huge and the language of those conquered were either _________ __ ____________ for the language of the conquers.
extinguished or suppressed
Humans outside ______ display less linguistic diversity because their languages have had a shorter time in which to evolve into new languages than have African languages.
Africa
The four major dialect regions in the United States are
Northern, Western, Midlands, and Southeastern
The way a language is written, its ________ is distinct from the words themselves
orthography
A language of international communication is called _____ ______
lingua franca
In the 17th century English spread to north America and the Caribbean through _______ __________.
relocation diffusion
The four most vastly spoken Romance languages are __________, __________, _________, and ___________.
Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian.
_______ may become distinct languages over time
Dialects
Belgium has a sharp ________ ______ between its two regions
linguistic divide
Afro Asiatic, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Sahara are ___________________________________________________________________________________
the three languages that dominate Africa.
English is quite different from German today primarily because England was conquered by the _______ in 1066.
Normans
Indo-European, the most prominent language family, was previously the biggest one in Europe, South Asia, and North and Latin America. It has eight branches, including four that are largely spoken (____-_______, ________, ________, and _____-________) and four that are spoken by few people (______, ______, ______, and _______).
Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Romance, and Balto-Slavic
Albanian, Armenian, Celtic, and Greek
•Isogloss is ____________________________________________________
a word-use boundary with a degree of geographic extent
Canada has recently forced more unity between its _______ majority and _______ minority
1. English
2. French
The homework on Monday, November 16, 2020, were pages ___ to ___
166 to 168