Vocab
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is a lingua franca?
It's the world's largest language family. Some of the languages included in this family are English, German, Sánish and Hindi.
What are Indo-European languages?
The branch that the English, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch languages all belong to
What is the Germanic language branch?
If a language spread to every member of a country because authority figured spoke it, it would be this type of diffusion
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The total number of native speakers of (Mandarin) Chinese currently exceeds the ______________ number of native English speakers and Arabic speakers.
What is "combined"?
There are over a billion people who speak the languages that belong to this linguistic family. Tip. Mandarin Chinese is one of them!
What are Sino-Tibetan languages?
Spanish is one or the sub-branches of this Indo-European branch.
What are Italic or Romance languages?
The modern invention that inspired a large diffusion of English to places it is not spoken natively
What is the internet?
2. According to a 2015 study, the current _________ of species extinction is roughly 100 times higher than in the past.
What is "rate"?
"Arabic" is the largest language spoken in this family.
What are Afro-Asiatic languages?
Despite being a Germanic language, most (58%) of English words come from this language branch
What is the Romance language branch?
The type of diffusion that pop culture is
What is contagious diffusion?
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
What is a language group?
Baltic, Albanian and Armenian belong to this linguistic family.
What are Indo-European languages?
The language family most prevalent in Eastern Europe
What is the Balto-Slavic language family?
The globalization of culture
What is cultural convergence?
A language in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
What is a developing language?
This main island and those surrounding it speak unique languages belonging to this unique linguistic family.
What are Trans-New Guinea languages?
The language family English belongs to
What is the Germanic language family?
When English was spread by Brits moving to the Carribean, it was this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?