Terms
What is a system of communication that uses signs, gestures, marks, or vocal sounds to communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas?
Language
What is the most spoken Language in the world?
Mandarin
What language family is English part of?
Indo-European
In American English what is different because settlers in America encountered new objects, animals, etcetera?
Vocabulary
What is the study of speech areas and their local variations.
Linguistic Geography
What country speaks Mandarin in our world today?
China
Russian and Ukrainian are part of what type of language branch?
Slavic Languages
Germanic Tribes, Latin, Old Norse, Norman French, Celtic Tribes
Coastal Southern, and Mountain Southern are examples of what?
Isogloss
What occurs when people in a country speak many different languages. This is often caused by physical or cultural barriers?
Linguistic Fragmentation
What is the language family spoken by 46% of the world’s population
Indo-European
Swedish and Danish are part of what language branch?
Germanic Language
What time period from 1470-1650 know as, when talking about English?
Modern English
The term "pop" is a very popular term for canned drinks in which region primarily?
The Midwest
What is a language that is not related to any other language around it.
A language isolate
Which language branch is English part of
Germanic
What is Basque an example of?
Language Isolate
Colonization from the British
The West and Northeast
What is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation?
Dialect
What are the 3 types of Iranian languages that are spoken?
Kurdish, Pashto, Farsi
What country is Basque mainly spoken in?
Spain
What was the time period from 450-1100? When talking English.
Old English
English is known as one of the biggest examples of a what?
Lingua Franca