Vocabulary 1
What is a pharynx?
It is the section of the throat that extends from the mouth to the larynx.
What is a creole?
A language that has developed from a pidgin.
What languages came from Latin?
The languages that came from Latin were: Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Who was Sequoyah?
He was a Native American Cherokee silversmith.
What did the theory "La-La" mean?
It was the first sound that had to do with love, play, poetry, and song.
What is a phoneme?
It is the smallest sound unit in a language.
What is a syllabary?
It is a set of written characters for a language, each representing a syllable.
How can cave paintings and tools show language?
Cave paintings and the use of tools were used by humans before they spoke, that shows that humans may have communicated in other forms like sign language.
What did Sequoyah do to make him famous?
Sequoyah produced a syllabary of 86 characters.
What did the theory "Pooh-pooh" mean?
This sound came up with speech to express emotions-needed words to demonstrate feelings.
What is a linguist?
These are people who study the nature of language and communication.
What is a palindrome?
It is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
How can learning about how languages developed over time help us understand history better?
It can help us learn about human behavior in the past and how societies developed. We can learn about their values/beliefs. We can also learn how they looked at the world around them. We can know how humans did things in the past and how they lived.
Where and when did Sequoyah produce a syllabary of 86 characters?
In Cherokee, Oklahoma, between 1860 and 1821.
What did the theory "Bow-wow" mean?
This sound were people imitating sounds-especially animal calls.
What is an anagram?
It is a word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase.
what is a pidgin?
It is a form of speech combining words from two or more languages.
State one language that uses boustrophedon when they read/write.
One language that everyone knows about that uses boustrophedon is Greek.
Why did Sequoyah produce a syllabary of 86 characters?
Before Europeans arrived in the Americas, Native Americans did not have written languages.
What did the theory "Yo-he-ho" mean?
This sound came from people’s needs to work together-grunts, chanting words.
What is a larynx?
It is the part of the respiratory tract that contains the vocal chords.
What is a trachea?
It is a tube extending from the larynx to the lungs through which air travels to and from the lungs
The linguists, what are they and what do they do?
They are people who study languages. They record as many of the World's languages, and study similarities/differences among languages. Lastly, they divide languages into families.
How did Sequoyah produce a syllabary of 86 characters?
Sequoyah looked through his English book (which he could not read) and started to write the Roman alphabets using the English book he had as a reference.
What did the theory "Ding-dong" mean?
This sound came from people’s reaction to the environment.