General Terms
This is a set of languages that can be shown to derive from a common ancestor.
What is a language family?
English is an official language in countries that, combined, contain this percentage of the world’s population.
What is 33% (one third)?
Chinese languages are a part of this language family.
What is Sino-Tibetan?
Romanian is a part of this language branch.
What is Romance?
This language spoken in India has many different ways to speak it but only one way to write it.
What is Hindi?
This is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
What is a language group?
Although not in the same subgroup as Dutch, English is still classified as this kind of Germanic language, named after where the people who migrated to England came from.
What is Low Germanic?
Approximately three-fourths of the Chinese people speak this language.
What is Mandarin?
This branch of the Indo-European family has the most speakers.
What is Indo-Iranian?
Just as Hindi is an umbrella term for different languages that are spoken differently but written the same way, this other “language” is an example of the same phenomenon.
What is Chinese?
These are two examples of physical, intervening obstacles that create barriers of communications.
What are mountains and oceans?
This has changed more in British English than in American English.
What is pronunciation?
The Chinese government imposes this Chinese language countrywide.
What is Mandarin?
The most widely used languages in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh come from this branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is Indo-Iranian?
Mexican Spanish and Colombian Spanish are dialects of this Spanish.
What is Castilian Spanish?
This is the force that causes two groups of speakers of the same language to eventually come to speak two different languages.
What is isolation?
English and German belong to the Germanic language this.
What is branch?
In the Korean language, these two languages contribute the most words to describe new technology and concepts.
After Russian, these two languages are the most important East Slavic languages.
What are Ukrainian and Belorussian?
This group of travelers devised the Vietnamese alphabet.
What is Roman Catholic missionaries?
A language of international communication is known as this.
What is a lingua franca?
Dravidian is a part of this language family.
What is Indo-European?
The desire to use native languages other than Russian was a major drive in the breakup of this in 1991.
What is the Soviet Union?
The Korean script, unlike Japanese and the Chinese languages, does not use any form of this.
What are ideograms?