Fundamentals
A system of communication between people.
What is a Language?
Indo-European is a _______.
What is a Language Family?
Languages are mainly distributed through R_____ M_____
What is Relocation Migration?
A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a _____ _____.
English is a part of the _____ ______ branch.
What is West Germanic?
The type of language that a government uses for signs, documents,... is called a(n) _____ _____
What is an Official Language?
Hebrew is an example of a _____ language.
What is Revived?
Differences form between language families, branches, and groups because of _____.
What is Isolation?
An institutional language describes a language used in _____, work, and mass media.
What is education?
The 2 biggest language families are __________ and _________.
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan.
The aspect of language that is in written form is known as ____.
What is Literary Tradition?
Basque is a good example of a _____ and ______ language.
What is vigorous and isolated?
________ is to Canada as ________ is to the United States.
What is French and Spanish?
The current estimate of the number of languages spoken across the planet is approximately _____.
What is over 7000?
What is North and West?
America is divided by these "borders" when it comes to the use of "soda," "pop," "coke," etc.
What is an Isogloss?
Celtic languages DO NOT follow a common language structure with _____ and _____.
Finnish and Hungarian.
A language that was nearly extinct in British-controlled areas but which is now being revived is _____.
What is Celtic?
Ebonics represents an English dialect heavily influenced by African American _____ _____ heritage.
What is forced migration?
Written Korean has a _____ for each _____.
What is letter and sound?
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered the standard of the UK.
What is Received Pronunciation (RP)?
Warlpiri Rampaku is a(n) _____ Language.
What is Creolized?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Catalán-Valencian-Balear represents a language and various dialects spoken in Spain, Andorra, and the islands of _____ and _____.
What is Majorca and Ibiza?
Carmel O'Shannessy, a linguist from the University of Michigan, recorded this new language in Australia's Northern Territory.
What is Warlpiri Rampaku?
According to biologist Quentin Atkinson, the world's languages originated in _____. (hint: continent)
What is Africa?