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Its all Greek to me
No hablo espanol
What did they say?
100
A written form of a language.
What is literary tradition
100
The second-largest language family is
What is Sino-Tibetan
100
The most widely spoken Indo-European language
What is English
100
A mix of indigenous and colonial language
What is a creolized language
100
The way British and American English differ 3 things
What is pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary
200
A form of a language spoken in a local area is a
What is a dialect
200
When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the roots of the trees below the surface represent this
What is possible prehistoric superfamilies
200
The most widely spoken language in Brazil
What is Portuguese
200
The two most important languages in South America
What is Spanish and Portuguese
200
A language that is mutually understood by people who have different native language
What is a lingua franca
300
The most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa
What is Niger-Congo
300
English is part of which language family?
What is West Germanic
300
An example of a revived language
What is Hebrew
300
Chinese is written in the form
What is ideograms
400
Germanic invaders of England
Who are the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons
400
Name at least 4 Romance languages
What is Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, French
400
Why is English the most important language in North America
What is the diffusion of English colonies
400
The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from what?
What is thousands of years of isolation between tribal groups
500
According to the Anatolian hearth theory, Indo-European languages diffused across Europe how
What is with the diffusion of agriculture
500
The two largest language families in the world
What is Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European
500
The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of this
What is Iceland's relative isolation from other places
500
A boundary between language regions
What is an isogloss
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