Vocabulary
The process of adjustment to the dominant culture.
What is acculturation?
Spoken in daily use by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition.
What is a vigorous language?
The branch of the Indo-European language family with the most speakers.
Hint....written in what alphabet?
What is the Indo-Iranian branch?
Quechuan is the most widely used language family in the Western Hemisphere other than Indo-European. Its speakers live predominantly in this region of South America.
(hint- around 9 million people use this language)
What is the Andes Mountains?
Two Goidelic languages.
What are Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic?
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
What is taboo?
a Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin.
What is a language group?
English, although classified in the Germanic branch, has a higher percentage of ___________ branch words.
Branch of the Indo-European language family found in Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy.
What is Romance?
The name derived from the Germanic invaders' word for foreign....A member of the United Kingdom.
What is Wales?
The process of giving up cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place.
What is assimilation?
An official language, or an __________, is used in education, work, mass media, and government.
What is an institutional language?
The mix of German and English.
What is Denglish?
The most used language family.
What is Indo-European?
True or False:
The percentage of Irish speakers in Ireland is highest in the most remote portions of the country.
What is True?
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.
What is a logogram?
This means it is written as well as spoken.
What is literary tradition?
England's language was first dominated by the invasion of the _______ from France.
Who were the Normans?
The second largest language family.
What is Sino-Tibetan?
The loss of many languages is a reflection of this.
What is globalization?
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
What is an isogloss?
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
What is a language family?
A language of international communication.
What is lingua franca?
By far, the most used language in the world.
What is Mandarin?
Found in the Pyrenees Mountains of northern Spain and southwestern France, it is considered the only language currently spoken in Europe that survives from the period before the arrival of Indo-European speakers.
What is Basque?