National Languages
Official Language
Planning Language
Sociolinguistics
It's all relative!
100
Is the language of a political, cultural and social unit
National Language
100
Is primarily utilirian rather than symbolics
Functions of Official Language
100
What is the definition of Planning Language
Is the system of the selection and development of a national language
100
study the relationship between language and society
What is Sociolonguistics?
100
Official name of Mexico
Estados Unidos Mexicanos
200
Identify the nation and unite its people
Function of National Language
200
Number of Official languages in India
22
200
Steps to follow in a planning language
Selection, Codification, Elaboration, Securing its acceptance
200
A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary
What is dialect?
200
Who is considered the father of linguistics?
Ferdinard de Saussure
300
English is the ______________ of United States of America
National
300
A language which maybe used for government business
Official Language
300
What is the definition of Codification when we are refering to planning language?
Standarizing its structural or linguistics features (corpus planning)
300
it is used for trading and business purposes, it can't be considered as a language.
Pidgin
300
How many phonemes has English language?
between 35 and 40 depending of the author
400
a National Language can be developed as a symbol of a Nation............ True False
True
400
When a country decides to implant an Official Language?
When the nation doesn't have a unique language for political issues
400
With which kind of purposes the code is selected when the linguists develop the new code for a country?
Political
400
Process where by a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language
What is Language Shift?
400
which language is considered as lingua franca
English
500
Number of National Languages in India
Zero, its has 22 offcial languages but it doesn't have by constitution any National Language
500
Definition of "in facto"
a language used in the actuality for educational and speaking purposes
500
What is linguists role in a planning language?
selecting vocabulary from different indigenous languages (standarization and codification of a particular variety)
500
term used when we try to revive a language which is not used anymore
What is Language Revival
500
Official language in USA
it doesn't have
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