Literary Traditions
The literary tradition found in North America
What is Latin?
A language of international communication, usually for commerce
What is a lingua franca?
Languages related through a common ancestral language
What is a language family?
A regional variation of a language
What is a dialect?
Lingua franca of East Africa
What is Swahili?
This literary tradition is found in China
What is Chinese?
A written character symbolizing the idea a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
What is an ideogram?
A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language
What is a language branch?
Boundaries of where regional words are used can be mapped
What is an isogloss?
Lingua Franca of South Asia
What is Hindi?
This literary tradition is found in Russia
What is Cyrillic?
A language created when people combine parts of two or more languages into a simplified structure and vocabulary
What is a pidgin language?
Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar vocal and grammar
What is a language group?
Dialect inhabited by settlers from England
What is New England?
Lingua Franca of China
What is mandarin?
This literary tradition is found in North Africa
What is Arabic?
A pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people
What is a Creole language?
Existed long before recorded history
What is a language family?
Dialect from Southeaster England
What is Southeastern?
Lingua Franca of former Soviet Union
What is Russian?
The most common literary tradition worldwide
What is Latin?
The widespread trend of a feature
What is expansion diffusion?
A group of language families related by similar characteristics
What is a language superfamily?
Dialect of quakers from North of England
What is Midlands?
Lingua Franca in North Africa
What is Arabic?