Vocabulary
An Extinct Language
language without any native speakers.
The distinctive pronunciation that indicates the place of origin or background of the speaker.
Accent
Austronesian language
A language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan. They are spoken by about 386 million people.
what role do languages play in cultures?
Languages help people communicate with the world, define their identity, express history and culture, learn, and defend human rights.
A Dialect
Variant of a language - Pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
The large, widespread family of languages that is spoken by half of the world's population.
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan language
A group of languages that includes both the Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages. Including more than 300 languages and major dialects.
How many languages are in India?
Over 600 languages.
A Language Divergence
1 language formed into 2.
A boundary that separates two regions with different languages.
Isogloss
Germanic language
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe
how do languages diffuse?
By groups of people moving away from each other, their languages branched into dialects, became isolated, and then new languages developed.
Language Branch
A collection of languages related to a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
A characteristic language of a particular group
Vernacular
Niger–Congo language
A language family is spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. 600 million people speak a Niger Congo language.
What is the most populated language family.
Indo-European.
An Institutional Language
A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
Language group
Indo-European language
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe. 3.2 billion people speaks an Indo-European language.
True or False: An institutional language is spoken in daily use by people of all ages, from children to elderly individuals.
False. That would mean it is a developing language.