Vocab Soup
The way people pronounce words.
What is a language?
Collection of sounds or gestures that make sense to a group of people.
How many language families cover most of the world?
2.
What is an extinct language?
A language that is no longer spoken.
The recent growth of English speakers is a result of what diffusion?
Relocation diffusion.
What is lingua francas?
A language that connects two different groups of people whose native language is different
What are the two most popular language families?
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan.
The thirteen colonies can be grouped into how many dialect regions?
3, New England, southeastern, and midlands
What is an isolated language?
A language that is not related to any other and is not in a language family.
What is a working language?
A language that is used as a primary language for organizations or cooperations for any means of communication.
What is a dialect?
A way a group pronounces and uses grammar and vocabulary in sentences.
What are the main four languages in the romance branch?
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian.
How many languages have 100 million speakers?
11.
What is a pidgin language?
A language that combines two or more different languages into a simplified structure and vocabulary.
Who are the Walloons and who are the Flemish?
Walloons are southern Belgians who speak French, and Flemings are northern Belgians who speak a dialect of Dutch.
What is a literary tradition?
Written form of a language.
What specific language branch is English in?
West Germanic.
India's official language is Hindi, but how many other scheduled languages are there?
22.
What is a Creole language?
A pidgin language that has developed into a more complex structure, which then becomes a native language.
What region of the world has the most extinct languages
America's
What is the definition of isogloss?
Regional words that can be mapped in usage boundaries.
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese.
Around how many languages are spoken?
6,909.
What is linguistic fragmentation?
Regions with conflict in religions, ethnicity, and languages result in a divide.
How many countries has their official language as English?
58.