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Language Organization
Language Organization
Language Families
Language Dialects
Language Diversity
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A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
What is the definition of Language?
100
Language families, Language Brances, and Language Groups
What are the three organization "methods" used to organize world language?
100
Indo-European is the most ______ language family
What is the most popular Language family in the world?
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A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
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1) Belgium 2) Switzerland
What 2 European countries have varying degrees of difficulties with diversity in language?
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A system of written communication.
What is a Literary Tradition?
200
Languages related through a common ancestral language.
What is a Language Family?
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66.8% of families are...
What percentage do both Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan language families make up in total?
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A word usage boundary mapped boundaries where regional words are used.
What is an isogloss?
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Nothern Belgians (Flemings) speak Flemish Southern Belgians (Walloons) speak French
What is the difference between Northern and Southern Belgium?
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Official documents and public objects—e.g., road signs and money.
Why would a country designate an official language for a country?
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Languages related through a common ancestral language (Differences are not as significant or as old as between families).
What is a Language Branch?
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Predominate language family in Europe, South Asia, North America and Latin America.
Where was Indo-European distributed?
300
An Isogloss is mapped boundaries of where certain dialects exist.
How are Dialect and Isogloss related?
300
Pressure from Flemish speakers led to the division of Belgium into two independent regions with each controlling their own cultural affairs, public health, road construction, and urban development.
What happened as a result of these two languages in Belgium?
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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 there in the world and how many languages are spoken by more than 100 million?
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Languages that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and displays similar grammar and vocabulary.
What is a Language Group?
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Encompasses languages spoken in the People’s Republic of China and several smaller countries in Southeast Asia.
Where was Sino-Tibetan distributed?
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Large number of speakers and widespread distribution (in the United States)
What causes the spread of different dialects in countries (Specifically the United States)?
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A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is an isolated language?
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Arabic, Chinese, Cryllic, and Latin.
What are the 4 most popular literary traditions in the world?
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1) Language Families (most broad) 2) Language Brances 3) Language Groups (most specific)
List the three Language Organizational methods in order of increasing specificity.
500
Sub Saharan and South Africa is the ___ most popular language family, and it was _____ in Niger-Congo
What is the third most popular Language Family and where did it get distributed?
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1) New England 2) Southeastern 3) Midlands
What are the three dialect regions within the 13 original colonies of the United States?
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Arise from lack of interaction with speakers of other languages. EX. Basque, Icelandic
How do isolated languages happen? What are some examples of isolated languages?