Vocabulary
Diffusion/History
Families/Branches
Fun Facts about SAMANTHA
Other
100

Diffusion of a process with negative side effects

What is maladaptive diffusion?
100

When and why English diffused to North America

What was English colonization in the 1600's?

100

The second largest language family

What is Sino-Tibetan?

100

Number of children + genders

What are three children, one girl + two boys?

100

Lingua franca is

What is a language that many people who speak differing languages use to understand one another?

200

A boundary between two language regions

What is an isogloss?

200
How Arabic spread

What is the rise of Islam?

200

The language branch that English is in

What is Germanic?

200

Favorite student 

Who is Karina?

200

Name five romance languages

What are French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian?

300

As new generations begin speaking pidgin language as its main language

What is creole?
300

Two major language families of India

What are Mogul Empire and Dravidians?

300

The second most spoken language family in Europe

What is Uralic?
300

Favorite cheese

What is Havarti Dill?

300

A creolized language is

What is a mix of indigenous and colonial language?

400
Countries that usually have low levels of economic productivity, low per capita incomes, and generally low standards of living

What is periphery?

400

The reason why there are so many languages in Africa

What is numerous years of isolation between tribes and groups?

400

The language branch Russian is a part of

What is Balto-Slavic?

400

University + degrees

What is Texas A&M - Geography and School Admin?

400
Basque is mainly spoken in

What is the Pyrenees Mtns?

500

A union, or attempted fusion of different religions, cultures, or philosophies

What is syncretism?

500
The Anatolian hearth theory states that

What is Indo-European languages diffusing throughout Europe with the spread of agriculture?

500

The most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa

What is Niger-Congo?

500

Maiden name

What is Schiffhauer?

500

A European nation where an Indo-European language is not the most-spoken

What is Yugoslavia?