What is one reason for the popularity of American English?
100
A basic form of 'language' that develops from two speech communities meeting and needing a common language to communicate.
What is a pidgin?
100
blackfella English/talk
What is another name for Aboriginal English?
100
sidewalk
What is the American English version of footpath?
100
Language endangerment
What is it called when a language is at risk of disappearing altogether?
200
Approximately 1.8 billion
What is the number of English speakers globally?
200
A creole.
What is it called when a pidgin becomes someone's first language?
200
He hasn't got no toys.
What is an example of a double negative?
200
The expanding circle of Kachru's circle?
What is the circle called when English is learned as a foreign language?
300
A language with a large number of speakers as well as non-native speakers, has an official status in several countries and is considered prestigious.
What is the definition of a world language?
300
Decreolisation
What is the process called when a pidgin reverts back to being one of the original languages, shedding itself of the aspects of L2?
300
Two bird
What is an example of the lack of plural -s in Aboriginal English?
300
chinwag, hooroo, drongo
What are some examples of Aussie slang?
300
Language reclamation
What is the process called when you reclaim, or bring back, a language that is no longer in use?
400
Naturalisation
What is the process called when a pidgin continues to develop as a language forming its own linguistic complexity and distinctiveness and in the end becomes a new language?
400
approximately 250
How many different indigenous languages were spoken at the time of British colonisation?
400
I already ate.
What is the American English equivalent of the British "I've already eaten"?
500
tenkyu?
What is thank you in Tok Pisin?
500
e.g. He get wild
What is an example of the third person present tense conjugation in Aboriginal English?
500
ædvərˈtaɪzmənt
What is the American English pronunciation of advertisement?