A set of sounds and symbols that are used for communication.
What is Language?
100
Americans, Canadians, Australians, Russians, and other colonial powers adopted policies to assimilate indigenous peoples, but this country is the only one that has not formally apologized.
What is the United States (Americans)?
100
This is the most spoken language at home by Non-English speakers in the United States?
What is Spanish?
100
Perry High School is an example of this kind of toponym (Post-Colonial, Post-Revolution,Memorial, or Commodification)
What is Memorial?
100
This language globally has more speakers than English
What is Chinese?
200
This term means that two people can understand each other when speaking.
What is Mutual Intelligibility?
200
Certain corporations, such as Viacom and MTV are what kind of culture.
What is Popular Culture?
200
This country has the largest number of official languages-22.
What is India?
200
A toponyms can give us a quick glimpse into the _______ of a place.
What is History?
200
India’s primary language family is Indo-European but on the Southern coast of India another language family is used.
What is Dravidian?
300
A set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related.
What is Dialect Chains?
300
Hutterites, the Amish, and the Mennonites are what kind of groups.
What is Anabaptist Groups?
300
The process of the French-speaking elite in Brussels and other Flemish cities promoting French and using it when interacting with their counterparts in other countries.
What is "Frenchification."
300
The German word for flower is "Blume." German immigrants had a fondness for the tropical flowers in this country, therefore it is dotted with towns named Blumenau, Blumberg, Blumenhof, etc. The name of this country is...
What is Brazil?
300
In America, the main language family is Indo-European but this state houses the other language family Amerindian.
What is Arizona?
400
Linguists use this technique to track sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backward" toward the original language.
What is Backward Reconstruction?
400
Lindsborg, Kansas proclaiming their town Little Sweden, U.S.A. is an example of this.
What is Neolocalism?
400
Linguists theorize that the hearth of the Proto-Indo-European language was somewhere in the vicinity of the.....
What is Black Sea or east-central Europe?
400
San Francisco, California is an example of which of the ten basic types of place-names proposed by George Stewart.
What is Commemorative?
400
Southern Canada is split up between two languages; English and French, which are part of the Indo-European language family. Northern Canada is made up of this language family.
What is Amerindian?
500
Hypothesis which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia, next around the Caspian Sea, and then across the Russian-Ukrainian plains and on into the Balkans.
What is Dispersal Hypothesis?
500
At the global scale, North America, western Europe, and ___________ exert the greatest influence on global popular culture at present.
What is Japan?
500
This made it possible to print the Bible in one's own language, helping to standardize European languages.
What is Gutenberg Press?
500
Stalingrad being renamed Volgograd (for the river) is an example of this kind of toponym (Post-Colonial, Post-Revolution, Memorial, Commidification)
What is Post-Revolution
500
In between Spain and France there is a region where no documented language families exist in.