The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
what is the definition of an official language?
100
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
What is a Language group?
100
Once in use in the the recent past, but no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world
What is a extinct language?
100
Indo-european
What is the language family of English?
100
system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
What is a language?
200
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
What is a standard language?
200
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.
What is a language branch?
200
Language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language families.
What is a isolated language?
200
West Germanic
What is the specific branch of English?
200
A system of written communication
What is a literary tradition?
300
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is a isolated language?
300
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
What is a Language Family?
300
Language of international communication
What is a lingua franca?
300
spain ceded to the u.s in 1899, a year after losing the spanish-american war. 1946 the philippines retained english as one of its official languages along with filipino
How was the US able to influence the Philippines in its use of English?
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of different languages
What is a pidgin language?
400
Mandarin and English
What languages represent 67 percent of our world?
400
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language.
Franglish
400
Added usually 1 syllable words to English.
What did the vikings add to the language?
400
First language of only 800,000 people and an official language in only one country, but it is spoken as a second language by approximately 30 million people.
What is interesting about Swahili language?
500
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is creole or creolized language?
500
Arabic and Hebrew
Name 2 languages in the in the Semitic Branch
500
Combination of German and English
Denglish
500
english established colonies in the u.s., british took control of ireland, south asia then south pacific and finally southern africa
What events distributed the English language around the world?
500
Clustered in Southwest Europe and Latin America (branch)
Where is the romance branch clustered in the world?