Origin and Diffusion of English
Popular and Folk Culture
Language Families, Branches, and Groups
Lingua Francas
Dialects
100
Germanic languages of Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.
What is the base of English?
100
Product of a developed country, traceable to a specific person or corporation in a particular place.
What is popular culture?
100
Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European.
What are the two largest language families in the world?
100
A language of international communication, usually for commerce.
What is a Lingua Franca?
100
A regional variation of a language.
What is a dialect?
200
French.
What is the most recent contributor to modern English?
200
Life-Cycle events and environmental features.
What are the content of the songs in folk culture?
200
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language.
What is a language family?
200
English.
What is the current main Lingua Franca in the world?
200
New England, Southeastern, and Midlands.
What are the three original dialect groups of the United States?
300
Romance language branch
What language branch majorly contributed to English?
300
Restriction imposed by a social custom to eat particular plants or animals that are believed to embody negative forces.
What is a taboo?
300
In one, the languages are more recently related and display similar vocabulary and grammar.
What is the difference between language groups and language families?
300
Hindi.
What is the Lingua Franca in South Asia?
300
Distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
In what ways are dialects unique?
400
Jamestown, VA.
Where was the first successful colony in the US?
400
Political content, social content, conflict and security, internet tools.
List two ways governments attempt to limit content on the Internet?
400
Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, and Arabic.
What are the four main alphabets used around the globe?
400
2020.
When is Mandarin projected to overtake English as the most-frequently used online language?
400
Vernacular region where particular linguistic features occur within its boundaries.
What is an isogloss?
500
They changed to beginning of Filipino from a "ph" to a "f".
How has the diffusion of English affected the Filipino language?
500
African and Asian.
What government officials criticize freedom of the press in the US?
500
Austronesian.
What is the language family of Indonesian?
500
Hebrew.
What is an extinct language that has been revived because the creation of Israel?
500
Climate, environment, and geography were different, isolation between speakers of varying dialects, and Noah Webster seeking to reduce cultural dependence.
Why is American English different from British English?
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