Language Families
Definition of a language family.
What is a collection of languages that share a common ancestral language.
Definition of a language branch.
What is a collection of languages that share a common ancestral language, but have smaller differences than in a language family?
Definition of a language group.
What is a collection of languages with similar grammar and vocabulary?
Definition of a dialect.
What is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds?
The biggest language family in the world.
What is the Indo-European language family?
The most widely spread language branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is the Germanic branch?
The most commonly spoken language group in the Romance branch.
What is Spanish?
Definition of an isogloss.
What is a map displaying a geographic language boundary where specific dialect occurs?
3 types of Literary Traditions.
What are Arabic, Cyrillic, and Chinese examples of?
2/3 of the population belong to these two language families.
What are the Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan language families?
The four Indo-European language branches.
What are the Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, and Romance branches?
The two groups that the Indo-Iranian language branch is split into.
What are the Indic and Iranian language groups?
Three dialects that the 13 colonies were grouped into.
What were the New England, Southeastern, and Midlands dialects?
Two largest language families in Southwest Asia, North Africa and Central Asia.
What are Afro-Asiatic and Altaic?
The biggest language group of the Indo-European branch, and biggest language group of the Sino-Tibetan.
What are English and Mandarin?
The group in the Germanic Branch that English is found in.
What is the West Germanic language group?
The most spoken language out of the East Slavic and Baltic groups.
What is Russian?
What is Ebonics?
The official language in 24 countries in Southwest Asia, North Africa and Central Asia.
Languages such as Japanese, Korean, and Austronesian are a result of this.
One of the four Indo-European branches that Vulgar Latin came from.
What is the Romance branch?
Biggest language group is the world.
What is English?
What a dialect is called when it is acceptably used in government, business, education, and mass communication.
What is standard/Institutional language?
African Language that is the first language of 80,000 people.
What is Swahili.