Multilingualism
The term for the "lingua franca" or "auxiliary language" that is used for trade or broad communication in a country or across the world.
What is a Language of Wider Communication? (LWC)
A person who speaks only one language.
What is a monolingual?
What is Haitian Creole?
The term for a word's sound's being disconnected from its meaning.
What is arbitrariness?
The type of morphology that divides each piece of meaning into separate words.
What is Isolating?
The artificial language created in the 1800s by Dr. Zamenhof.
What is Esperanto?
Movement from a native language to another language.
What is language shift?
The location of the fixed word stress in Haitian Creole.
What is the last syllable?
A multi-word unit that cannot be separated without removing the entire meaning.
(e.g. cat out of the bag)
What is an idiom?
The type of morphology in which all pieces of meaning are connected in a single "word."
What is Polysynthetic?
The result of a last speaker of a language passing away.
What is language death?
The language with less power in a country.
What is subordinate?
Word order of Haitian Creole.
What is Subject-Verb-Object?
The style of phonics study from the point of view of how the sounds are formed.
What is articulatory phonetics?
The type of morphology in which attached morphemes only contain one piece of meaning.
What is Agglutinative?
Living proximal to another language, therefore being exposed to its being spoken.
What is language contact?
The language with more power in a country?
What is superordinate?
The lexifier of Haitian Creole.
What is French?
What is a speech act?
The type of morphology in which morphemes are attached and morphemes contain more than one piece of meaning.
What is fusional?
What is a coordinate bilingual?
A form of bilingualism in which two separate levels of a language are kept in functional distribution.
What is diglossia?
The part of a Haitian Creole sentence that changes place depending on whether it is definite or indefinite.
What is the article?
The alternate term for ambiguity.
What is Isolating?