Key Issue 1
What is a language?
Language is the communication through speech
Which language branch includes English?
Germanic Branch
Where did American Spelling diverge from?
British Standards
What country created a program to preserve languages belonging mostly to Indo-European?
United Nations (UN)
a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Dialect
What is the estimated number of languages?
7,102
Where did English first move through?
The British Colonies
What does AAVE stand for?
African American Vernacular English
How many of the world's 7,102 languages are endangered?
2,447
a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Language
What language family is predominant in Europe, South Asia, North and Latin America?
Indo-European
What three languages have combined with English?
German, French, and Spanish
North, South, Midland, and West
Name one of the two places where many endangered languages can be found.
North America or South Pacific
Institutional Language
Sino-Tibetan is the second largest language family, what country makes up most of this family?
China
What language is believed Indo-European to originate from?
Proto-Indo-European
Which U.S. dialect region attracted many German, Dutch, and Swedish immigrants?
Midland Region
Ethnologue says for 367 languages to be extinct by what year (hint: The Korean war began in this year)
1950
A language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition
Vigorous Language
What are the 3 of the 4 widely spoken Indo-European languages?
Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Romance, and Balto-Slavic
What is the number one language of Lingua Franca.
English
What is the difference between a dialect and a language?
Dialect is the way someone sounds and language is how they communicate.
How many languages does the UN say are recently extinct?
231
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom
Received Pronunciation (RP)