vocabulary
a sudden shaking of the earth’s surface often causing a lot of damage
earthquake
Put the sentence below into Japanese.
What causes a language to disappear?
何が言語が消える原因なのか？
According to some linguists, of the 6,200 known languages, what percent may disappear over the next 100 years?
As many as 90 percent may disappear.
Diseases brought by European settlers wiped out the entire population of Native American tribes.
F
Put "言語学者" into English.
linguist
relating to a volcano (= a mountain from which burning rocks sometimes come out)
volcanic
Fill in the blank with a proper word.
As ( ) as a hundred people came to the party.
１００人も多くの人がそのパーティーにやってきた。
many
What is a man-made cause that makes languages disappear?
It is war.
Man-made causes as well as natural phenomena are responsible for the disappearance of languages.
T
How many languages are there in Papua New Guinea?
848
to gradually have more and more
accumulate
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どんなに君が速く走ろうとも、猫よりは速く走れないよ。
( ) ( ) how fast you run, you can't run faster than a cat.
No matter
What are two active approaches to endangered languages in general?
They are language preservation and language revitalization.
It is impossible for us to preserve all of the world's languages because of the high cost.
F
Put "こんにちは" into French.
Bonjour
making people feel more worried than necessary about something
alarmist
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He sits up late every night. That ( ) the case, he often comes late for school.
being
What do linguists try to do for language preservation?
They try to record as much information about the language and culture as is possible.
Put the sentence into English.
「ここんとこなんだかやせったくていっさら休めんさ」
I have been busy recently so I can't take a day off.
a social group consisting of people of the same race
tribe
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アンネの日記は世界の平和に非常に貢献した。
Anne's diary has ( ) much to the world peace.
contributed
What are three causes of the elimination of a majority of the Ainu population by the end of the 19th century?
They are battles in the 1600s, Japanese expansion into Hokkaido and disease.
What is the official language in Senegal?
French