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What does IPA stand for?
International Phonetic Alphabet
Which Scandinavian language is the most widely spoken?
Swedish
What is the most common semitic script used for a language?
Arabic
What is the purpose of using IPA?
to provide a standardized system for representing sounds in speech across languages.
What is the most common way for a language to die?
Language Shift
What is the term for the group of languages Spake in countries such as Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia?
Slavic
What is the difference between a family of writing systems, and a language writing system?
A family of writing systems details things such as the alphabet, while a language writing system is for one specific language in that family. I.E a latin system, vs english.
Name two things IPA transcriptions tell you that regular writings won’t?
tones, stresses, and articulation details
Which language is the basis used for many scientific and medical terms?
Latin
How many official symbols are in the IPA system?
100+
When a family begins to diverge, what is the process called?
language divergence
What language family does Swahili come from?
Barutu
Many languages are extinct, and endangered, but not many people know the difference. While latin is extinct, and gambiri is endangered. While both are still spoken, what makes the difference?
Latin has no native speakers that are alive, while gambiri does
Which language family does English belong to?
Indo-European Family
A language can be endangered if another country conquers you, and makes their language the official public language. What country did this happen to for 200 years in historical Europe?
England
When writing a German sentence in conversational past tense, instead of saying “ I am doing my homework (ich mache meine hausaufgaben)” you would say “i have my homework to do, while using the rule that you take the stem, adding the proper form of haben, the GE separable prefix to it and add en to the end.(Ich habe meine Hausaufgaben gemacht.) how is this different from the most common germanic language?
English does conversational past tense by instead of changing word location, changing the first part to I DID. Any response similar is fine.
Spanish and Portuguese can be understood bilaterally from speakers of either language because of how similar they are to each other. What family of languages would these fall under to make this similarity possible?
Romance languages.
A writing system commonly used in a military setting is morse code. Morse code is a series of dashes and dots that is used to communicate before radio, or in an encrypted manner with special characters. Please use the below morse code phrases to write “Lingo Club is Awesome":
.- / -- .- -. / .-.. . .- .--. . -.. / --- ...- . .-. / - .... . / .... . -.. --. . A man leaped over the hedge
.. -. -.. --- -. . ... .. .- / .. ... / .- / .-.. .. -. --. ..- .. ... - .. -.-. .- .-.. .-.. -.-- / -.. .. ...- . .-. ... . / -.-. --- ..- -. - .-. -.-- Indonesia is a linguistically diverse country
--. .-. . .- - / -... .-. .. - .- .. -. / .. ... / .- / .-- --- . ..-. ..- .-.. / .--. .-.. .- -.-. . great Britain is a woeful place
.-.. .. -. --. --- / -.-. .-.. ..- -... / .. ... / .- .-- . ... --- -- .
A “hypothetical” teacher Mrs. Maxon invented a new writing system called GrammarSpeak! GrammarSpeak is unique as it only uses the letters in the phrase inside parenthesis, (“Subject-verb agreement, correct word order, Proper use of tenses.$” ). with knowing this, use the translation of sentences below to write. “Grammar is the worst”.
I hate most grammar= J Pena crfa Vmettem
Grammar is the grossest thought that is the worst of all= Vmettem Jf n,a vmrffa npr$vpn npen jf npa -rmfn r. E””.0
Hint: words are in the same spot with only the letters changed
Vmettem jf n,a -rmfn
Clue:
A newly discovered language, Zalutian, has a unique counting system based on an unknown numerical base. You notice the following number words:
"noka" = 6
"tepa" = 14
"kunok" = 30
"tepokun" = 44
Based on these words, what is the base of the Zalutian number system?
the base of the Zalutian number system is 8.