Language is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
What is Language?
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2/3 of the world’s population speak a language that belongs to the Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan language family.
2 to 6 percent of the world’s population speak a language that fits into one of seven other language families.
What are the two most populous language family and how much of the world's languages belong to them?
100
Celtic tribes was around 2000 B.C.
Only a few words in modern English can be traced to the Celts, such as basket and flannel
What is the Celtic tribe?
200
Spoken primarily in northwestern Europe and North America
Divides into High and Low Germanic subgroups
What is the Germanic branch and where is it distributed?
200
Indo-European is a Predominate language family in Europe, South Asia, North America and Latin America.
Where is Indo-European distributed?
200
Language groups is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary
What is Language Groups?
200
Remainder of population speaks a language belonging to one of 100 smaller families.
2/3 of the world's population languages belong to the Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan language family where does the rest belong to?
200
Germanic tribes from Denmark and Northern Germany pushed the Celts to remote areas and contributed around one-fourth of the words in modern English.
tell me something about the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from around A.D. 450
300
Spoken primarily in South Asia
Most speakers of the language branch
Subdivided into eastern group (Indic) and western group (Iranian)
What is the Indo-Iranian branch and where is it distributed?
300
Sino-Tibetan Encompasses languages spoken in the People’s Republic of China and several smaller countries in Southeast Asia.
Where is Sino-Tebetan Distributed?
300
Language Families is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language?
What is Lamguage Families?
300
It estimates of the world has 6,909 languages. Only 11 of these languages, including English, are spoken by at least 100 million people
How many languages are in the world?
300
Modern English has evolved primarily from the language spoken by three Germanic tribes invading the British Isles.
Angles- from southern Denmark
Jutes- from northern Denmark
Saxons- from northwestern Germany
Created different dialects within England
How has Modern English evolved? and where have the Angles, Jutes, Saxons beenn distributed?
400
Spoken primarily in southwestern Europe and Latin America
Most widely used are Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian.
What is the Romance branch and where is it distributed?
400
Austronesian
Austro-Asiatic
Tai Kadai
Japanese
Korean
What are the Other Asian Language Families
400
Language Branches are a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language
What is Language Branches?
400
Many countries designate at least one official language to be used for official documents and public objects—e.g., road signs and money.
What do many countries exactly designate? And what are they for?
400
Normans established French as the official language for the 300 years after the Norman invasion.
Romance languages contribute more than one-half of the words in English, either directly through French or through Latin.
Tell me something about the Normans in 1066?
500
Spoken primarily in Eastern Europe
Divided into…
East Slavic and Baltic Groups: most widely used language is Russian followed by Ukrainian and Belarusan.
West and South Slavic Groups: most spoken west Slavic language is Polish followed by Czech and Slovak, while the most widely spoken south language is Serbo-Croatian.
What is the Balto-Slavic branch? and Explain the 2 divisions.
500
Mandarin is the most-used language in the world and the official language of both the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.
What is so special about the language Mandarin?
500
The Differences are nit as significant or as old as between families.
What is the difference between Language Families and Langauge Branches?
500
Literary tradition refers to a system of written communication.
What is Literary Tradition?
500
Although unable to conquer Britain, Vikings remaining in the country contributed many words from their language, such as call, die, and leg.
Tell me something about the Vikings between 787 and 1171.