Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Balto-Slavic
Romance
Dialects and Languages
100
What family is the Germanic branch from?
Indo-European
100
What Indo-European language branch has the most speakers?
Indo-Iranian
100
Balto-Slavic is a branch from the Indo-European family. True or False?
True
100
Who's language did this branch derive from?
The Romans
100
Can the Indo-European ancestor be proved at a certain hearth with certainty?
No
200
What group does English originate from?
West Germanic
200
What are the branches divided into and what are their names?
Eastern Group- Indic Western Gruop- Iranian
200
What is the most spoken language in the Baltic-Slavic branch?
Russian
200
When was the Proto- Indo European estimated to have first extisted
Thousands of years before the invention of writing or recording history
300
Where did the Scandinavian languages diratived from?
Old North
300
Who encouraged to make the national language Hindi in New Delhi?
The British
300
What can Slavic and Baltic be divided into?
East, West, and South
300
What are the four most widely spoken languages in the Romance branch?
Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian
300
By how is the languages of the Indo-European language family descended from?
A single common ancestral language
400
Explain how English and German are similar.
They are structurally similar and many of their words are in common
400
Explain why people are turned to learn English as a common language.
They wish to communicate with each other
400
What is the difference between Czech and Slovak?
They are in different countries
400
Explain what Vulgar Latin is?.
It's not standard literary form but a spoken form.
400
What are the two thesis that people believe the Indo-European originate from?
Nomadic Warrior thesis and the Sedentary Farmer thesis.
500
Describe why four distinct languages emerge red after A.D. 1,000.
Migration increased and the rise of political organization split the region into 4 isolated countries.
500
Give an example of why Urdu is spoken like Hindi but they use the Arabic alphabet
An example is because the majority are Muslim and the Quran is written in Arabic
500
What is weird about the names Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian?
The people in these countries prefer the names to show that each language is unique but in reality they are the same.
500
Give an example of a Vulgar Latin word that has inflicted our or other languages.
Equus and caballus
500
Explain the two theories that explain how the languages diffused
1) diffused through warfare and conquest 2) diffused through peaceful sharings of food
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