Where Are English Speakers Distributed?
What three components make up a dialect?
What is spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary
English is part of which language family?
What is Indo European
What is the second largest language family?
What is Sino-Tibetan
What is the world's lingua franca?
What is English.
The thesis that proposes Indo European languages spread as a result military victory
What is nomadic warrior thesis
What group was responsible for introducing French words into the English language
What is Norman
What Romance evolved from
What is vulgar Latin
What is an ideogram?
What is a character that represents an idea, concept, or word
What are the two Celtic language groups?
What is Goidelic and Brythonic
95% of people in sub Saharan Africa speak languages of this family
What is Niger Congo
What two language branches had great influence on the development of English
What is Romance and Germanic
Name a lesser used romance language
What is Catalan, Romansh, Ladino, Sardinian, Fruilian
The language family that us spoken in Indonesia
What is Austronesian
Give an example of a isolated language
What is Basque, Korean
The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of
What is Iceland's relative isolation from other places.
Name the four major dialects of the US
What is Northern, Southeastern, Western, Midland
Name the four most common Romance languages
What is Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian
Altaic location and main language
What is Central Asia/ Turkish
What languages are spoken in Belgium?
What is Flemish and French
Provide an example of a language in the Afro Asiatic family
What is Arabic, Hebrew
a dialect of African American English
What is ebonics
Provide three languages in the Indo Iranian (Western)
What is Persian (Farsi) , Kurdish, Pashto
The most widespread Niger Congo language and what is the language an example of?
What is Swahili/ lingua franca
Why do pidgin languages exist? What is a pidgin language?
What is a need for communication or trade between groups that speak different languages. It is a simplified form of a language.
Name the three countries where Uralic languages are spoken
What is Estonia, Finland, Hungary