Definitions
Language Families
Diffusion of English
Dominance of English
Dialects
100
a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands
What is language?
100
Predominate language family in Europe, South Asia, North America, and Latin America
What is Indo-European?
100
the two theories of how Proto-Indo-European language originated and how it diffused
What is Nomadic Warrior theory and Sedentary Farmer theory?
100
A language of international communication usually for commerce
What is Lingua Franca?
100
Regional variation of a language
What is dialect?
200
A system of written communication
What is literary tradition?
200
Encompasses languages spoken in the People's Republic of China and several smaller countries in Southeast Asia
What is Sino-Tibetan?
200
Germanic tribes from Denmark and northern Germany that pushed the Celtics to remote areas
What is Angles, Saxons, and Jutes?
200
Most likely to replace English as most used online language before 2020
What is Mandarin?
200
Language differences greatest in rural areas
What is limited interaction?
300
collection related through common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
What is language families?
300
Contributes to overall independent development
What is Isolation?
300
Languages that contribute to more than half the words in the English language
What is Romance languages?
300
The melding of Spanish and English
What is Spanglish?
300
Reduces the number of regionally distinctive words
What is mass media?
400
Displays similar grammar and vocabulary
What is language groups?
400
Arabic is a major language in this language family
What is Afro-Asiatic?
400
English language migrated with the people of England
What is how English was diffused around the world?
400
How English is diffusing
What is Expansion Diffusion?
400
a geographic language boundary within a particular linguistic feature
What is isogloss?
500
language families, different not as significant or old between families
What is language branches?
500
Language with the most speakers is Turkish
What is Altaic?
500
Contributed many words such as call, die, and leg
What is the Vikings?
500
Faces the challenge of getting immigrants because of making the speaking of French mandatory
What is Quebec?
500
the British standard language
What is British Received Pronunciation (BRP)?
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