Dead Languages
Someone who studies language. These are also the people who can make an extinct language a dead language.
What is a linguist?
The greatest diffusion of the English language today
What is television?
An isolated language still spoken frequently by natives
What is vibrant?
The word for no in German
What is nien?
A language from Rome that has influenced many other languages.
What is Latin?
The invention that made language able to travel long distances quickly via morse code.
What is the telegraph?
The step before a language becomes endangered
The most spoken isolated language
What is Korean?
A type of word that is considered taboo in language
What is a cuss word?
The language in used in the bible that has been learned by many that want to revive it.
What is Hebrew
A movement to change a language to be easier to understand. One example would be British English and American English
What is a spelling reform?
A language that is only spoken by the elderly
What is a moribund language?
A revived language spoken in the 50th state of the US
What is Hawaiian?
An item you put on your feet, which is used for low friction travel. The word is derived from a Norwegian word for stick, skīth
What is ski?
The Arab language spoken after the Muslim control of the Middle East
What is Coptic?
The invention and reason for why a keyboard's key are all staggered
What is the typewriter?
An Indian language that is spoken by the Gond people
What is Gondi?
The only isolated language in Europe
What is Basque?
A word derived from middle French and old Italian that means gross or disfigured. this word is commonly used to describe a monsterous creature
What is grotesque?
The language used in the original writing of the story Beowulf
What is Old English?
The invention that got rid of most English dialects in 1435
What is the printing press
An endangered language that originates from Germany, and is based on Hebrew.
What is Yiddish?
A way that languages can be revived by turning the language into something that can be taught easily
What is language reclamation method?
A stupid or foolish person. This word came after dip, but before it's later counterpart that we use today.
What is a dipstick?