Diffusion
Vocabulary
Branches
Origin
Grab Bag
100
How did english spread to America from Europe?
When England set up colonies in America during the 1700s.
100
What is a symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word?
What is an ideogram.
100
English is part of which branch?
What is Germanic.
100
Where did Americans get most of the names for animals that live in the forest?
What is the Native Americans.
100
What is the most common language spoken in the United States?
What is English.
200
How did English become a dominance language?
with use of the internet and increased communications with other countries.
200
What is the study of language?
What is lingustics.
200
What languages are part of the Balto-Slavic Branch?
Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian.
200
Why are 16% of the the Chinese population over the age of 16 unable to read or write more than a few characters of Chinese?
Because they have a large amount of characters in their alphabet.
200
What type of language is Celtic? Since it is rarely spoken in the present.
What is an endangered language.
300
How many known languages are spoken throughout Africa?
1000 have been identified in Africa.
300
What is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation?
What is dialect.
300
What part of Europe is the Romance branch spoke in?
What is Southern Europe.
300
Where did Old English originated?
From German Invasion: invading tribes were the Angles, Jutes and the Saxons.
300
What is the most spoken language in the world?
What is Mandarin Chinese.
400
What is the only language spoken in Europe that survives from a period of the arrival of Indo-European speakers?
What is Basque.
400
What is the form of a language used for official government, business, education, and mass communication?
What is standard language.
400
What is the most important language spoken in the Sintic Branch? Hint- it is the most spoken language in the world.
What is Mandarin.
400
What language was the Bible's Old Testament written in?
What is Hebrew.
400
What is the mixture of english and spanish called?
What is Spanglish.
500
What did English call their heritage? Hint-these were two large tribes
Anglo- Saxon
500
A dialect spoken by some African Americans is.... (sometimes known as ghetto slang)
What is ebonics,
500
50% of people speak this language?
What is Indo- European
500
What country has an unchanging language?
What is Iceland.
500
What languages are part of the romance branch?
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian
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