Indo-European
History of English
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General Knowledge
100
The most important and expansive Indo-European language, used in international procedures.
What is English?
100
The two nations that are largely responsible for the spread of English around the world.
What is England and the United States?
100
The most used language in the world.
What is Mandarin?
100
The most common language family in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Niger-Congo?
100
The largest and most expansive language branch in the world.
What is Indo-European?
200
The four main language groups of the Indo-European family.
What are Germanic, Romance, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic?
200
The Germanic tribes that had the largest influence on basic English.
Who are the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes?
200
The things that the Chinese government hopes to create by maintaining a small number of languages in China.
What are national strength and unity?
200
The second-largest language family in Europe, after Indo-European.
What is the Uralic family?
200
What this image shows an example of.
What is an isogloss?
300
One theory for the origin of Indo European languages, shown in the picture above.
What is the Nomadic Warrior Theory?
300
The man who made many changes to American English and wrote the first dictionary.
Who is Noah Webster?
300
Chinese is written with these symbols, which represent ideas and not sounds.
What is an ideogram?
300
The 6 official languages of the United Nations.
What are English, French, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese?
300
The three things that distinguish dialects from languages.
What are spelling, vocabulary, and pronunciation?
400
The spoken form of Latin used by the Roman Army.
What is Vulgar Latin?
400
The standard form of English in the UK that was popularized by upper-class Londoners.
What is British Received Pronunciation?
400
The island nation that speaks an Austronesian language despite being thousands of miles away from the nearest Austronesian speakers.
What is Madagascar?
400
The name for a distinct dialect of English used by African-Americans.
What is Ebonics?
400
A language used as a common language or bridge for international communication/
What is a lingua franca?
500
The official institution ensures the Spanish language stays stable, and meets every week to clarify the grammar rules.
What is the Spanish Royal Academy?
500
The main reason why America and Britain have developed very different styles of English. (hint: it is in the picture)
What is isolation from each other? (or "a huge distance," or "The Atlantic Ocean")
500
The writing system used in the Korean language.
What is hangul? (or hankul, onmun)
500
The letters that Turkish (an Altaic language) was written with before the government changed it to Roman letters.
What is the Arabic alphabet? (or Arabic letters)
500
A simplified language used to communicate between groups that speak different languages. It is often created through a mixture of more than one language.
What is a pidgin language?