Any place's name that are made up
Examples:
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Tesnus, Texas
Reklaw, Texas
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What is deep reconstruction?
A language without any native speakers, it may be feasible to go even further and re-create the language that preceded it.
500
What is Monolingual states? Give examples.
Countries where almost everyone specks the same language.
Ex. (japan in Asia, Uruguay in South America, Iceland, Denmark, Portugal, and Poland in Europe; and Lesotho in Africa)
500
Who was the first to compare the world's language families to the branches of a tree?
August Schleicher
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What are the major language subfamilies of Europe? Name at least 2.
Romance, Germanic, Slavic, Uracil, Altaic, Celtic, Greek or Alabanian.
500
What is the significance of a toponym...?
It is able to give us a quick glimpse into the history of a place and helps us understand the uniqueness just by the name.
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What is the theory that holds that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread from east to west on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues.