5.1
What is a Language Family?
What is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
What is the largest family tree in the world?
Define subdialect
Define extinct language
What is a language that was once used by people in daily life but is no longer in use
What are the two largest language families?
What are Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan
What is the most predominant language on the Internet?
What is English
Define standard language
What is a well-established dialect recognized as acceptable for the government, business, education, and mass communication.
Define unchanging language and why they don't/haven't changed
What is a language that has not changed much over time due to limited interaction with others who speak different languages
How does the United States differ from European language instruction?
What is that only around 20% of Americans know a foreign language while in Europe it is around 80%
How did English widely diffuse?
What is through British colonies around the world
Define creole (creolized language)
Define Isolated Language
What is a language that is not related to any language in the language family (e.g., Basque)
What is a literary tradition?
What is being written as well as spoken
What are some important elements of a Lingua Franca?
What is being a language to facilitate trade and communicate internationally
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
What key factor plays into preserving a language and its danger of extinction?
What is passing down a language through generations (If it continues to be passed down, the language survives. If not, the language will slowly die out as less speakers teach the language and die out)
Where are the other third and fourth largest family trees located?
What is Africa
What are the extensively used branches of Indo-European?
What are the Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Romance Branch, Germanic Branch
Define Ebonics (AAVE)
What is African American Vernacular English - a distinctive dialect developed by the African American community living in racially segregated communities.
What factors play into similarities and differences between languages?
What is isolation and contact (isolation causes differences and dialects, contact merges two languages together over time, creating similarities the more they interact)