Dialect
What is a dialect?
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
People in smaller countries should learn this language in order to participate more fully in the global economy and culture.
The language is English
Indo-European
What is a language branch?
A language branch is a collection of languages within a family, related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.
Culture refers to a groups entire collection of _______.
Customs
Why are geographers interested in the difference in dialects and sub-dialects?
Because they reflect distinctive features of the environments in which groups live.
What are logograms?
Logograms are symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words.
More than 90 percent of the people in the world use a language that belongs to one of the __ language families.
7
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history is called a(n)
Language family
A ___________ force is a force that tends to unify people.
Centripetal
How did indigenous native Americans enrich American English back in the day?
They made words for things such as raccoon, canoe, squash, and others. The English that England had brought over did not have names for those things.
When a language is classified as a language and not a dialect, it can be a symbol of ________ ____________ for the people who speak that language.
Cultural independence
The four most widely used contemporary Romance languages are...
Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian.
If an institutional language has a literary tradition it means that it is...
written as well as it is spoken
A __________ froce is a force that tends to pull people apart.
Centrifugal
Words that are not used nationally and boundaries can be described as a(n)
Isogloss
How is a creolized language formed?
When a group is being colonized and adopts the language of the people colonizing them, but at the same time also makes some changes.
English is apart of the Germanic language branch and the Indo-European family. What group is English in?
The West Germanic group.
And institutional language is used in…
Education, work, mass media, and government.
Why do geographers look at the similarities among languages around the world?
So that they can understand effusion and interaction of the people whether far away or not.
What are the United States four major dialect regions?
North, Midland, South, and West.
______ _____________ refers to the ability of people speaking in two ways to readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.
Mutual Intelligibility
Romance languages evolved from which language spoken by Romans 2,000 years ago?
Latin
What type of language is used for face-to-face communication but is losing users?
A threatened language
At a global scale ___ culture is becoming more dominant than ____ culture which is likely to vary from place to place at a given time.
Pop, Folk