Vocab
A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
What is Language?
What are the four most widely spoken branches?
What is the Germanic Branch, the Indo-Iranian Branch, the Balto-Slavic Branch, and the Romance Branch?
This theorized that Germanic, Romance,Balto-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian languages all stemmed from a common ancestral language.
What is Indo-Europeans?
Recent growth in the use of English is an example of __________.
What is Expansion diffusion?
How many groups can the original 13 colonies be grouped into?
What is 3?
A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is an Isolated Language?
What regions is the romantic branches most widely used?
What are Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy?
The two theories that are debated between linguists and anthropologists about when and where Proto-Indo European language originated and how it diffused.
What is Nomadic Warrior Hypothesis and the Sedentary Farmer Hypothesis?
What are words than have been diffused into French?
What are cowboy, hamburger, jeans, and t-shirt?
3 dialect regions from the 13 colonies.
What are New England, South Eastern, and Midlands?
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary,spelling, and pronunciation.
What is Dialect?
What two groups is the Balto-Slavic branch divided into?
What are the East Slavic and Baltic Group/West and South Slavic Groups?
What was the official language in most former British Colonies?
What is English?
_______ will likely replace English as the most frequently used online languages before 2020.
What is Mandarin?
3 ways the English language is spoken differently than in England.
What are Vocabulary, Spelling, Pronunciation?
A language of international communication.
What is Lingua Franca?
What is the branch that most people use?
What is Indo-Iranian?
Modern English evolved primarily from these three Germanic Tribes.
What are Angle, Jutes, and the Saxons?
English is the first language of this number of people.
What is 328 million people?
The different dialects in the English language depend on.
What are rural life, food, and objects from daily activities?
Boundaries of where regional words are used.
What is an Isogloss?
What group in the Germanic Branch is English classified in?
What is the Low Germanic Group?
Over time these invaders came to England and Influenced the basic English. They came from _____.
What are the vikings from present-day Norway and the Normans from present day Normandy and France.
Expansion has occurred in two way in English.
What are diffusion of new vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation/fusion with other languages?
Sought to make English used in America distinct from England to reduce cultural dependence by changing spelling of words in his dictionary.
Who is Noah Webster?