Language Structure
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Examples of language structure
Examples of accents
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The summation of human communication, visual or aural
What is language?
100
A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is dialect?
100
The language with the most speakers worldwide
What is Mandarin?
100
Cantonese and Mandarin are both examples.
What is a dialect?
200
A relatively recent collection of languages, splitting about 2,000 years ago
What is a language branch?
200
The standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in Southern England.
What is Received Pronunciation?
200
Arabic, English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French
What are the languages of the UN?
200
The language branch including Portugeuse and Spanish
What is Romance (in reference to languages)?
200
The region that Received Pronunciation stems from.
What is Southern England (in relation to speech pattern)?
300
It has a common alphabet and similar grammar
What is a language group?
300
A language created when people combine the parts of two different language into a simplified vocabulary and structure.
What is a pidgin language?
300
The language spoken by Roman soldiers stationed throughout the empire.
What is Vulgar Latin?
300
The language branch including Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian
What is North Germanic?
400
A collection of languages with a common ancestor around 5,000 years ago
What is a language family?
400
A language of international communication, especially for business.
What is Lingua Franca?
400
The Lingua Franca of East Africa.
What is Swahili?
400
This family includes Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi
What is Indo-Iranian?
400
It is the main Lingua Franca used throughout the world (especially via Internet).
What is English?
500
A language that is written as well as spoken
What is literary tradition?
500
A line on a dialect map marking the boundaries between linguistic features.
What is an isogloss?
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It leads to individual dialects being created.
What is regional isolation?
500
An example would be English using Roman alphabet
What is literary tradition
500
The major isogloss in American English.
What is the North-Midland isogloss?
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