Language and Culture
How many languages are spoken around the world
What is 7,000?
Papua New Guinea has around how many languages spoken?
What is 840?
What is one barrier that restricts language diversity?
What is Geographical, Historical, and Cultural?
True or False: Being multilingual can help someone connect to more than one culture.
What is True?
Today, this language is the most widely used for international communication, business, and the internet.
What is English?
True or False: Language has little impact on culture.
What is False?
94 percent of the world only speaks around _____ percent of total languages?
Speaking a "prestige" language over smaller languages is an example of what type of barrier?
What are cultural barriers?
Multilingualism can serve as a connection between what two things?
What is culture and language?
The global use of English through social media and news platforms has allowed for greater worldwide communication but has also led to a decline in what?
What is Language Diversity?
Name one way culture is passed on through language?
What are stories, songs, books, or everyday communication?
What percentage of all languages are endangered?
What is 40%?
Mountains, Rivers, and Deserts are examples of which barrier?
What is Geographical?
When changing languages based on surroundings, that can be referred to as ___?
What is code-switching or translanguaging?
Advancements in this field have helped English become the most commonly used language for development and communication worldwide.
What is technology or media?
The festival of Diwali is represented in what language?
What is Hindi?
What continent collectively speaks the most languages?
Migration and expansion are an example of which type of barriers?
What are historical barriers?
There are around ____ million Americans who speak more than one language?
What is 76 million?
After World War II, which country’s rise in global power helped make English the dominant language in international business and media?
What is the United States?
True or False: Language shapes the way people think and view the world?
What is True?
What Empire spread English to all of the continents through trade, travel, and colonization?
What is the British Empire?
Colonies with leaders dominating a population with their languages was an example of what kind of barrier?
What is a Historical Barrier?
The number of multilingual speakers in the United States has ____ since the 1980s
What is trippled?
One negative effect of English globalization is that smaller languages and their cultural traditions can begin to disappear. What is this process called when a language dies out completely?
What is Language Loss?