Vocab
Defined as a system of communicating that involves sounds, gestures, marks, or signs.
What is language?
"Bringing home the bacon" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
The ancestral language of a language family
What is a proto-language?
When one language divides into two or more languages.
What is a language divergence?
The study of name places.
What is a toponymy?
Ancient Mesopotamian language that uses wedges as an alphabet.
What is cuneiform?
Refers to differences in how a language sounds or is spoken.
What is accent?
The English language belongs to this language branch.
What is the Germanic branch?
When two languages combine into one language.
What is a language convergence?
The city of La Crosse is named after this.
What is the sport lacrosse?
A language using hand gestures. Primarily used by deaf in U.S. and Canada
What is American Sign Language?
A language that is used for cross-cultural communication and trade.
What is Lingua Franca?
English is part of this language family.
What is Indo-European?
When a language has no speakers.
What is a language extinction?
The city of Eau Claire got its name from the French who named for
What is clear waters?
Arabic is most widely spoken in this part of the world.
What is Southwest Asia/Middle East?
When two or more languages are combined to form a simplistic language for communication.
What is a pidgin language?
The most common example of a patois language in the world
What is Jamaican Patois?
A language that belongs to no known language family.
What is language isolate?
The reason Medford got its name.
What is after Medford, MA, hometown of a local railroad official?
The widest spoken lingua franca in the world is
What is English?
When a pidgin language is adopted as the main language of communication for a people it is called this.
What is creole?
Mandarin Chinese is part of this language family.
What is the Sino-Tibetan family?
The most common or popular example of a language isolate is
What is Japanese?
The reason Withee got its name.
What is being named for a teacher from Maine, W.H. Withee?