Key Issue 1
Leaves on a language tree represent...
languages
The four branches of Indo-European are...
Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, and Romance
a dialect is a...
regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocab, spelling, and pronunciation
The two language groups dividing Belgium are called...
Walloons(French speakers) and Flemings(Flemish speakers)
The diffusion of English words into German is called...
Denglish
the two most widely spoken language families are...
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan
The hypothesis stating Proto-Indo-European originated/diffused from the Kurgans primarily through their military conquest and through searching for grassland for their domesticated animals is...
the Nomadic warrior hypothesis
The original three American settlements along the Atlantic Coast can be grouped into these three dialect regions...
New England, Southeastern, and Midlands
Gothic is an example of...
An extinct language
Vulgar Latin and the fall of the Roman Empire helped create...
distinct Romance languages
symbols that represent words instead of sounds are called...
logograms/ideograms
The beginnings of English were brought to the British Isles through an invasion from...
the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons
The received pronunciation in England was the pronunciation initially used by...
upper-class residents in London and by people in universities such as Oxford and Cambridge
A language of international communication is a...
lingua franca
Switzerland peacefully exists with multiple languages primarily because...
their government is decentralized
The official language of China and Taiwan is...
Mandarin Chinese
The most spoken language of the east Slavic group of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family is...
Russian
90% of the speakers of these two Romance languages live outside Europe...
Spanish and Portuguese
In contrast to Australia's Aboriginal language policies, New Zealand's language policies are...
more dedicated to preserving native languages
Three European countries that do not speak Indo-European languages are...
Finland, Hungary, and Estonia
Name at least one country where one could find Khoisan...
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Angola
The "Serbo-Croatian" language name insults Bosnians and Croatians because...
it reminds Bosnians and Croatians of a time where they were dominated by Serbs and they fiercely believe that their languages are different, even though the differences are relatively small
In Haiti, their creolized language, named after their colonizers, is called...
French Creole
A formerly extinct language like Hebrew was hard to revive because...
words had to be created for objects that didn't exist in biblical times
More than 95% of people in sub-Saharan Africa speak languages from this language family...
Niger-Congo