vocabulary
Define Anagram.
A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase.
what is La-la
The first sound had to do with love , play, poetry, and song.
What are some facts about languages?
Some facts are body language like facial expressions, gestures, and postures. It is important for sharing thoughts and needs. It goes far back in history. It can be lost with time. Languages can have many dialects.
Give some facts about English?
3rd most used language. Written from left to right. Suffixes/prefixes from Greek and Latin.
what does Dialect mean?
A regional variation of a language.
what is larynx?
The part of the respiratory tract that contains the vocal chords
what is Bow-wow
people imitating sounds-especially animal calls.
What are some ways languages evolved from?
Some ways are Latin. Latin is one of the earliest languages. Also a lot of languages came from it. Some of those languages are Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Low Germain. some of them are Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, Frisian, Modern low German.
Greek: modern Greek.
East Slavic: Russian.
Give some facts about Arabic.
It is read from right to left. Also it is 4th most spoken.
what does Creole mean?
A language that has developed from a pidgin.
what is Neanderthal ?
A species of hominins that died out about 28,000 years ago.
what is Yo-he-ho
came from people's need to work together first grunts, then chanting, then words.
What are some jobs of a linguist?
They have to study the similarity and differences among languages. Also they divide most of the world's languages into several families of related languages. Record as many languages in the world.
Give some facts about Japanese.
Read from top to bottom. Body language is very different from English.
what does Linguist mean?
A person who studies the nature of language and communication.
what is body language.
The postures, facial expressions, and gestures that a person uses to communicate nonverbally.
define Ding-Dong
Came from people's reactions to the environment.
what is the significance of cave paintings and how they show language
Humans have communicated in many other forms like sign language. The cave paintings and tools were used before humans spoke. So this means they did have some form of language.
Give some facts about Greek.
Some forms of ancient Greek are read from bottom to top. Also they use boustrophedon(reverse lines , words, and letters) when they write.
What does pun mean?
Word play based on the different possible meanings of a word.
what is palindrome?
A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
Pooh-pooh
Came up with speech to express emotions. They needed words to demonstrate feelings such as joy, anger and frustration.
How does learning about the development of language help us understand history better?
It's how societies developed in the past. It helps us learn about human behavior in the past. We can learn how humans in the past did things. We can Learn how they lived. We can learn their beliefs. Also how they looked at the world around them.
What does phonemes mean? Give 1 example.
Phonemes are the smallest unit of sound in language. An example is ''o'' sound in dog.
What does pidgin mean?
A form of speech combining words from two or more languages.