This is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
What is language?
100
The _______ and the ______ are two theories as to how the the Proto-Indo-European language may have originated and diffused.
What are the Nomadic Warrior Hypothesis and the Sedentary Farmer Hypothesis?
100
This is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is dialect?
100
This is a language of international communication normally for commerce.
What is a lingua franca?
200
This is a Pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people.
What is a Creole language?
200
_____ of the world’s population speak a language that belongs to the ______ or _______.
What are 2/3 of the world’s population speak Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan?
200
English revolves primarily because of these tribes.
What are the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons?
200
This is a geographic language boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.
What is an isogloss?
200
This is a language created when people combine parts of two or more languages into a simplified structure and vocabulary.
What is a Pidgin Language?
300
According to Ethnologue and the trunk of a language tree must have at least ________ speakers.
What is 10 million speakers?
300
This is the most used language in the world.
What is Mandarin?
300
Between 787 and 1171 _____ contributed many words such as “call”, and “die”.
What are the Vikings?
300
The __________ can be grouped into three dialect regions, New England, South East, and Midlands.
What are the 13 original colonies?
300
______ and _____ have made English the official language.
What are 58 countries and 28 states have made English the official language?
400
These are a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language, the differences aren’t as significant or as old as between families.
What are Language branches?
400
This language is spoken by 30 million people and is the first language of 800,000.
What is Swahili?
400
_____ was the first successful colony.
What is Jamestown, VA?
400
The English language is noticeable different in America than in Emgland through _____, _______, and ______.
What is vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
400
The ________ has made ______ mandatory in many daily activities.
What is the Québec government has made French mandatory in many daily activities?
500
These are a collection of languages within a branch that shares a common origin in the relatively recent past and displays similar grammar and vocabulary.
What are Language groups?
500
Isolation on island and peninsulas contributed tot eh overall independent development of these languages (name two).
What are Austro Nesian, Austrio-Asiatic, Tao Kadai, Japanese, and Korean?
500
The _____ established _____ as the official language for the three hundred years after they invaded.
What is the Normans established French as the official language?
500
England’s standard language is known as _____.
What is British Received Pronunciation (BRP)?
500
The ____ controls the ______ that the rest of the world has to follow.