Vocabulary
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
What is Extinct language?
Main language of the Indo-European Family
What is English?
The main group West Germanic and North Germanic go into.
What is Germanic?
Two groups of the Germanic Branch
What are North Germanic and West Germanic?
Combinations of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans
What is Spanglish?
Main Language of the Sino-Tibetean Family
What is Mandarin?
The second level group that High Germanic and Low Germanic go into.
What is West Germanic?
Two groups of the Info-Iranian Branch
Iranian Group and the Indic Group
A form of latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents
What is Vulgar Latin?
Main Language of the Afro-Asiatic Family
What is Arabic?
Swedish, Danish, Old Norse, Icelandic, and Norwegian go into this group.
What is North Germanic Group?
Four groups of the Balto-Slavic Branch
What is Eastern Baltic, Eastern Slavic, Southern Slavic, and Western Slavic?
Well established dialect & widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, & mass communication.
What is standard language?
Has 800 languages
What is the Papuan Family?
Official language of the Indic group.
What is Hindi?
Most important West Slavic language
What is Ukrainian and Belarusian?
A boundary that separates regions.
What is isogloss?
Uses clicking sounds
What is the Khoisan Family?
Language Bible was written in that Christians follow
What is Hebrew?
What is the difference between language families, groups, and branches?
language families make groups, groups make branches.