Organization of Languages
What is a dying language
A dying language is still used by older people but is no longer being passed down to children
English is a part of which language branch
What is the West Germanic branch
For the Balto Slavic Branch why did the importance of Russian increase
The Soviets forced native speakers to learn Russian as a centripetal force to foster cultural unity
What is Spanglish an example of
What is an informal language
What is a lingua franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is a developing language
A developing language is used daily by people of all ages
Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian make up which branch
What is the romance branch
Where in Africa is the Niger Congo language family predominantly located
What is Sub-Saharan Africa
Japanese uses _____ symbols
What is phonetic symbols
What is a Pidgin language
A form of language that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages
What is a language branch
A language branch is a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousands years ago
_____ is most used by the people in China
What is Sino-Tibetan
What was the most used South Slavic language in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia haha
What is Serbo Croatian
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation is
What is a dialect
What is a Creole/Creolized language
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
What is a language group
A language group is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary
Name one language from the Uralic branch
What is Hungarian or Finnish
The Turkic language family is thought to have originated
What is in the Steppers bordering Qilian Shan and Altai mountains between Tibet and China
American Sign Language is to have thought to originated
What is the American School for the Deaf
What is an isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different languages predominate