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Langue vs dialecte (Language vs Dialect)
Wortschatz (Vocab)
Εστίες της γλώσσας (Hearths of Language)
Toponyma (Toponyms)
Temere (Random)
100
The varients of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines.
What is a dialect?
100
A common language of trade and commerce used around the world.
What is a global language?
100
Language classification in which languages have a shared but distant origin.
What is language families?
100
Another word for place name.
What is toponym?
100
What is the most commonly spoken language by non-English speakers in the U.S.
What is Spanish?
200
The border separating and defining dialects.
What is an isogloss?
200
Countries with fragmented languages often adopt this to unify their citizens.
What is an official language?
200
This occurs when the spacial interaction among speakers of a language breaks down and the language fragments into dialects.
What is language divergence?
200
Name one example of the commodification of toponyms.
What is Chase Field, Jobbing.com Arena, etc.
200
A language without any native speakers.
What is an extinct language?
300
A language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught.
What is a standard language?
300
Another term fo global language
What is lingua franca
300
Hypothesis claiming that three areas in and near the Fertile Crescent became hearths to three language families.
What is the Renfrew Hypothesis?
300
Give one example of a memorialized toponym.
What is MLK St., etc.
300
language diffused in a broad arc from Mesopotamia and around the Caspian Sea.
What is the Dispersal Hypothesis?
400
Someone who speaks Mandarin Chinese and another who speaks Cantonese Chinese can both read the same form of Chinese but cannot understand each other.
What is mutual intelligibility?
400
A slight change in a word across languages within a sub-family or through a language family from the present backwards toward its origin.
What is language shift?
400
When people with different languages have constant spacial interaction, collapsing two languages into one.
What is language convergence?
400
Give an example of a changing toponym.
What is Gold Coast to Ghana, East Pakistan to Bangladesh, Southern Rhodesia to Zambia and Zimbabwe, etc.
400
Give three languages in the Romance language.
What is French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese?
500
Region of South American that speaks mainly Portuguese.
What is Brazil?
500
A pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary.
What is a Creole language?
500
Early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread from east to west, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion of Indo-European tongues.
What is the Conquest Theory?
500
Name three of the ten basic types of toponyms and give an example of each.
What is descriptive (Rocky Mountains), associative (Mill Valley, California), commendatory (Paradise Valley, AZ), incidents (Battle Creek MI), possession (Johnson Creek, TX), folk culture (Plains, GA), manufactured (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico), mistakes (Lasker, North Carolina), shift names (Lancaster, Pennsylvania).
500
The combination of parts of a language into a simplified structure and vocabulary.
What is pidgin language?