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African writing system popularity especially in the central regions mirror the writing system popularity in North America. What writing system would this be called?

Latin

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Why does IPA transcription differ between British and English?

because the pronunciations differ

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Many languages are extinct, and endangered, but not many people know the difference. While latin is extinct, and gambiri is endangered. While both are still spoken, what makes the difference?

Latin has no native speakers that are alive, while gambiri does

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Name two things IPA transcriptions tell you that regular writings won’t?

tones, stresses, and articulation details

100

What is the most common semitic script used for a language?

Arabic

100

What is the system of language called that uses pictograms instead of words and letters?

Hieroglyphics

100

What kind of brackets are used for phonetic transcriptions?

//; slashes  

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Which organization created and maintains the IPA system?

the International Phonetic Association

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What is the most common way for a language to die?

Language Shift
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How does IPA handle tone languages like Mandarin Chinese?

it uses diacritics or tone letters to indicate different tones

100

What does IPA stand for?

International Phonetic Alphabet

100

Out of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the United States, and Brazil, what country has the most endangered languages?

Indonesia

100

How does IPA help actors?

it helps them learn and master accents and dialects for their roles

100

What is the term for the group of languages Spake in countries such as Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia?

Slavic

100

How might IPA help singers?

assists singers who need to read lyrics in other languages accurately

100

When writing a German sentence in conversational past tense, instead of saying “ I am doing my homework (ich mache meine hausaufgaben)” you would say “i have my homework to do, while using the rule that you take the stem, adding the proper form of haben, the GE separable prefix to it and add en to the end.(Ich habe meine Hausaufgaben gemacht.) how is this different from the most common germanic language?

English does conversational past tense by instead of changing word location, changing the first part to I DID. Any response similar is fine.

100

Spanish and Portuguese can be understood bilaterally from speakers of either language because of how similar they are to each other. What family of languages would these fall under to make this similarity possible?

Romance languages.

100

A writing system commonly used in a military setting is morse code. Morse code is a series of dashes and dots that is used to communicate before radio, or in an encrypted manner with special characters. Please use the below morse code phrases to write “Lingo Club is Awesome"

.- / -- .- -. / .-.. . .- .--. . -.. / --- ...- . .-. / - .... . / .... . -.. --. .  A man leaped over the hedge

.. -. -.. --- -. . ... .. .- / .. ... / .- / .-.. .. -. --. ..- .. ... - .. -.-. .- .-.. .-.. -.-- / -.. .. ...- . .-. ... . / -.-. --- ..- -. - .-. -.--            Indonesia is a linguistically diverse country

--. .-. . .- - / -... .-. .. - .- .. -. / .. ... / .- / .-- --- . ..-. ..- .-.. / .--. .-.. .- -.-. .       great Britain is a woeful place

.-.. .. -. --. --- / -.-. .-.. ..- -... / .. ... / .- .-- . ... --- -- .

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A “hypothetical” teacher Mrs. Maxon invented a new writing system called GrammarSpeak! GrammarSpeak is unique as it only uses the letters in the phrase inside parenthesis, (“Subject-verb agreement, correct word order, Proper use of tenses.$” ). with knowing this, use the translation of sentences below to write. “Grammar is the worst”. 

I hate most grammar=   J  Pena crfa Vmettem

Grammar is the grossest thought that is the worst of all= Vmettem Jf n,a vmrffa npr$vpn npen jf npa  -rmfn  r. E””

Hint: words are in the same spot with only the letters changed

Vmettem jf n,a -rmfn

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In the fictional language Tazric, verbs change based on both tense and subject. Here are some example sentences:

  1. "Mekal torin." → "I eat."

  2. "Mekal torim." → "You eat."

  3. "Mekal toran." → "He/she/it eats."

  4. "Mekul torin." → "I ate."

  5. "Mekul torim." → "You ate."

  6. "Mekul toran." → "He/she/it ate."

Based on these examples, what is the Tazric word for "We ate"?

(Contestants must deduce verb inflection rules for tense and subject agreement.)

The Tazric word for "We ate" is "Mekul toril."

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