Definitions
Define: Threatened Language
Language that is losing users
Which of the following is the largest on the language tree?
A. language family
B. Language Branch
C. Language Group
A. Language Family
What is lingua franca?
What is the world's leading lingua franca?
language mutually understood and commonly used to communicate by people who have different native languages
English
True or false:
An extinct language is still being used in daily activities
False
A pidgin language has
A. Simplified grammar
B. Limited vocabulary
C. Both
C. Both -simplified grammar and limited vocab
Geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature occurs
- Language group
- Vigorous language
- Isogloss
Isogloss
Which of the following is the largest language family?
A. Sino- Tibetan
B. Indo-European
C. Austro-Asiatic
B. Indo-European
Should NLHS students be required to take a certain number of language credits to graduate high school?
Why or why not?
What languages if yes?
opinion
The main way that languages have moved from place to place is through hierarchical diffusion
True or False?
False - Relocation diffusion
Why should Congress NOT make English the official language of the United States?
Pick one and Explain:
- Discriminatory
- States should decide
- English isn't threatened
Discriminatory - Not everyone speaks/knows English. There are different cultures and languages in the US.
States should decide - People should have a say/vote about the country they live in regarding speech.
English isn't threatened - English is the assumed official language of the United States and people will continue to learn the language.
Define: logogram
Ex: Apple for apple products; golden arches for McDonalds
Symbols that represent words
Which of the following languages is NOT in the same language branch as the others?
A. Spanish
B. German
C. French
B. German
What is Spanglish?
What is ebonics? (Hint: which group of people developed it to prevent others from understanding?)
What are they examples of?
Mix of Spanish and English
African american english created in the time of slavery so their slave owners wouldn't understand what they were saying.
Slang
A majority of CONTENT on the internet is in English
true or false
Which term means " a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation?" Hint: Water fountain vs. Bubbler
A. Isogloss
B. Dialect
C. Logogram
B. Dialect
Language used in education, work, mass media, and government
- Threatened language
- language family
- institutional language
- logogram
Define: institutional language
Collection of languages related through a common ancestor
- Institutional language
- Threatened language
- Language family
Define: language family
Why did we discuss the countries of Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, and Nigeria? (Hint: what challenges do they face because of the wide variety of cultures in their country?)
What do they all have in common? (Hint: How do they try to solve the challenges of many different cultures?)
Multi-lingual countries - difficulties among cultural groups- coexistence in an area
Multiple official languages
Divide and conquer
Bilingual autonomy
Spacial compromise
A majority of internet USERS are English Speakers
True or false
False
What is meant when a language has a "literary tradition"?
A. Written and Spoken
B. Written but not spoken
C. Not spoken nor written
A. Written and spoken
What is language? (write the definition)
Language is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
Displays similarities in grammar and vocabulary
- Vigorous language
- Isogloss
- Language Group
Language Group
Why SHOULD Congress make English the official language of the United States?
Pick one and clearly explain:
- Promote unity
- Protects English as a majority language
- Immigrants will assimilate faster
Unity - everyone speaks language/documents in English; one language = one spokesperson
English as majority language to learn and speak and write in the US vs. other languages such as Spanish.
immigrants assimilate- forcing people who do not speak English to learn English faster
Which of the following is true?
A. a dialect is larger than a language
B. a language is larger than a dialect
C. none
B. a language is larger than a dialect
Spoken daily, but lacks literary tradition
- Language group
- Vigorous language
- Isogloss
Vigorous language