Vocab
Language Tree
Subfamilies
Toponyms
Miscellaneous
100
What are the countries which more than one language are in use are called...?
Multilingual
100
What is the language family that is spoken most by people on Earth today is...?
Indo-European
100
What are the examples of Romance languages...? Name atleast 2.
French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, or Portuguese.
100
What is a place name?
Toponyms
100
What is the crucial element in language...?
Vocalization
200
What is a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate?
Isogloss
200
What is the most widely used Indo-European language today...?
English
200
What does the Romance languages have in common?
Latin connection.
200
What is the definition of descriptive toponym?
It is a place name that derives from physical features.
200
What is the percentage of internet content in English...?
68%
300
What is the language that is the product of a process of convergence which allows speakers of two or more languages to communicate...?
Lingua Franca
300
Persian, Pashto and Baluchi are all part of which branch of the language tree?
Iranian
300
What is the language family of the Celtic..?
Irish Gaelic, Welsh
300
What type of toponym is named for a person or founder?
Possession Toponym
300
What is a slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily or thought a language family?
Sound shift
400
What is backward reconstruction...?
To track sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backward" toward the original language.
400
What does the language tree diagram of language divergence with dead ends represent?
Extinct Languages
400
What are the Germanic sub-families? Name at least 2.
German, English, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian
400
What is an example of manufactured toponym?
Any place's name that are made up Examples: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico Tesnus, Texas Reklaw, Texas
400
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
500
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.
500
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.
Conquest Theory
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