Diffusion
What are the three Germanic tribes that modern English is evolved from?
Angles, Jutes, Saxons
What is the largest language in the Romance Branch of this language family?
Español
What is the largest language in this language family?
Mandarin
What is the largest language in the Afro-Asiatic Branch?
Arabic
What are the two main theories of where the Indo-European family started from?
Sedentary Farmer hypothesis, Nomadic Warrior hypothesis.
What is the most diffused language of the Germanic Branch?
English
Name a country other than China where this is the major language family.
Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar
What regions is Afro-Asiatic in?
North Africa, Southwest Asia (Middle East)
Where was the hearth of the sedentary farmer theory?
Central Anatolia
What is the language that all Indo-European languages come from? (Original language)
Proto-Indo-European
What branch is Mandarin part of?
Sinditic
What is the Lingua-Franca in Aast Africa?
Swahili
Around when did the celtic tribes first settle England, and where were they pushed to?
Around 2000 BCE, the celts were then pushed west to Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland
What are all the major branches of Indo-European
Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Romance
What is the two branches of this language family
Sinitic, Tibeto-Burman
What is a Lingua-Franca?
A langauge of international communication usually for commerce.
300 years
What regions is Indo-European most prominent in?
Europe, South Asia, North America, South America
What is the one language in the Tibeto-Burman Branch?
Burmese
What is a pidgin language?
A language created when people combines parts of two or languages into a simplified structure or vocabulary.