Origins and History of Languages
Scientists believed that marked pebbles were examples of good luck charms and this.
Writing.
These people were the earliest people to develop a system of writing.
Sumerians.
Writing became the job of these people:
Scribes.
This is the most widespread language family in the world.
Indo-European.
The origins of English can be first traced to this group:
Celts.
For thousands of years people expressed themselves through drawing, painting, and etching. This is known as:
Cave art.
The Sumerians lived in this ancient land.
Mesopotamia.
The ancient Egyptians used symbols and signs called:
Hieroglyphs.
English belongs to which two language families.
Romance and Germanic.
The result of Old English, French and Latin is known as:
Middle English
Which came first, spoken language or written language?
Spoken.
The Sumerians had to develop a system of writing because of this reason:
Life was becoming more complex.
The Phoenician system of writing is different from the Egyptians in this manner:
What is one symbol stood for a single consonant plus vowel sound.
Name the five Romance languages:
Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, and Romanian.
Illinois, Massachusetts, and Minnesota got their names from:
Native Americans.
What can we learn from cave art?
How people lived, hunted, plowed, planted, built huts.
The Sumerians advanced their lives by doing this: (name 2)
Raise crops by irrigation, weave cloth, build houses, chariots, ships and sails, developed tools and weapons.
These three letters did not exist in the Roman alphabet.
J, U, and W.
Maestro and fiasco are words that English borrowed from this language.
Italian.
Many East Coast cities are named after...
English.
Cave paintings were found in Southern France and this country:
Spain. Altamira, Spain.
The Sumerians efficient method of writing involved:
Using pictures that stood for words.
The Sumerians pressed their writing instruments into this in order to record their writing.
Clay tablets.
Name at least 2 out of 5 subgroups of the Indo-European Family.
Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek and Romance.
Agricola is a popular city name meaning "farmer" in the United States. Its origin is from this language.
Latin.