An array of separate languages that are suspected to be related by prehistoric origin.
What is a language family?
100
English belongs to this language family.
What is the Indo-European language family?
100
Four most widely used Romance branch languages
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian
100
A distinctive African American dialect that was influenced by forced migration from slavery in Africa. Example vocabulary words include "gumbo" and "jazz".
What is Ebonics?
200
Local or regional version of a particular language; there are variations in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
What is a dialect?
200
19
What is the number of language families?
200
English is a part of this particular language branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is the West Germanic language branch?
200
A rare instance of revival for an extinct language. The Jewish bible was written in this language.
What is Hebrew?
300
An array of languages that helps make up a language branch; the languages in the group share common origin and have similar vocabulary and grammar.
What is a language group?
300
Language family spoken mainly in Africa.
What is the Niger-Congo language family?
300
This branch includes more than 100 individual languages. It is divided into an Eastern (Indic) group and an Iranian group.
What is the Indo-Iranian branch?
300
2,000 years ago - prior to invasion - it was a major language spoken in the British Isles, northern Italy, and in several parts of Germany. However today it is isolated to France, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
What is Celtic?
400
It’s a language created from a combination of two more language into a simplified form.
What is a pidgin language?
400
Language family that is spoken mainly in China.
What is the Sino-Tibetan language family?
400
Eight branches of the Indo-European language family.
A country that measures to decrease spatial-cultural interaction that disrupts its monolingual heritage.
Japan or France
500
It’s a pidgin language with a more developed and more complex vocabulary and structure; it also has also developed into a native language for certain peoples.
What is a creolized language?
500
Spoken by 45% of the world.
What is the Indo-European language family?
500
Language branch that is most widely used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
What is the Indo-Iranian language branch?
500
The lingua franca of international communication TODAY.