Language Families
Language Types
Multilingual Literacy
Mixed Languages
Sustainability Projects in Sumi and Komo
100
This is a controversial language stock of Asia.
What is Altaic?
100
A language that has lots of morphemes per word.
What is a polysynthetic language?
100
The standard abbreviation for the mother tongue, or first language that a person learns as a child.
What is an "L1"?
100
A language that arises when two groups who speak different languages need to communicate with one another on a daily basis.
What is a pidgin language?
100
This is the area where the Sumi language is spoken.
What is Nagaland, India?
200
A set of words in related languages that descend from the same word in a common protolanguage.
What is a cognate set?
200
A language that has only one morpheme per word.
What is an isolating language?
200
The standard abbreviation for any language learned in addition to the mother tongue.
What is an "L2"?
200
A language that started out as a pidgin, but has become the first language for a community of speakers.
What is a creole language?
200
This is the language of instruction in schools in Ethiopia from grade one to six.
What is Amharic?
300
The original language that modern "daughter" languages descend from.
What is a proto-language?
300
He founded the field of typological linguistics.
Who is Joseph Greenberg?
300
Any language that is considered to be the chief language of a nation state.
What is a "National Language"?
300
An English-German creole language spoken in certain Mennonite communities in the Eastern USA.
What is Pennsylvania Dutch?
300
This is the language of instruction in schools in Ethiopia from grade 7 and up.
What is English?
400
The family consisting of English, German, Dutch, Frisian, Scots, Afrikaans, and Yiddish, but excluding Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
What is West Germanic?
400
Small words that indicate a relation between a noun phrase and the rest of the sentence.
What are adpositions?
400
The country that has the highest degree of linguistic diversity in the world.
What is Papua New Guinea?
400
English may be considered a Creole language based on Anglo-Saxon and this language.
What is Norman French?
400
Any language in which the "melody" of pronunciation affects the meanings of words.
What is a tonal, or tone language?
500
A linguist who is willing to posit genetic connections among contemporary languages based on very little data.
What is a "clumper"?
500
Post-positions, Verb + Auxiliary, Genitive element + Noun, Relative Clause + Noun, Standard + Marker + Adjective.
What are five syntactic characteristics of OV languages?
500
The linguistic term for the writing system of a language.
What is an orthography?
500
The English-based creole language used as a trade language throughout Papua New Guinea and many of the surrounding islands.
What is Tok Pisin?
500
A language that is used over a wide geographic area by speakers of different mother tongues.
What is a "lingua franca"?
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