Spanish
Spanish spread to Latin and South American through the colonization from this country.
What is Spain?
The French language uses this article for feminine singular nouns.
True or False: Latin is referred to as a "dead language" due to there being few to no native speakers left.
True! There are small communities of Latin speakers in parts of Italy, but none of them speak it as their main language.
The acronym "ASL" stands for.
What is American Sign Language?
The name for the study of language.
What is Linguistics?
This many letters are in the Spanish alphabet.
What is 27 (letters)?
This French word is used to describe something that is "beautiful."
What is "beau" (for masculine) or "belle" (for feminine)?
Latin is known for being spoken in this historic empire.
What is the (Holy) Roman Emipre?
True or False: There are different sign languages?
True! There are more than 300 different sign languages.
This language family derives from Latin and includes French, Spanish, Portuguese, and more.
What are the Romance Languages?
"¿Como te llamas? translates to "What is your name?" but the direct translation is something different.
What is "What do you call yourself?"
This French possessive pronoun means "my" when referring to a feminine singular noun.
What is "ma"?
Ancient Latin, Celtic, and Ancient Greek languages all come from this ancient reconstructed language.
What is (Proto) Indo-European?
The sign "NAME" is done this way.
Make a horizontal "H" with both and tap the dominant "H" on top of the non-dominant "H" twice.
This term is used to refer to constructed languages, this includes Esperanto, Klingon, and High Valyrian.
What is a conlang?
Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world, this many countries speak it as a national language.
What is 21?
This French word means "dream" and is also the name of an iconic Parisian museum.
What is "rêve"?
There are 6 possible word orders in all of language. Arabic uses VSO (Verb-Subject-Object). Which does Latin use?
What is SVO (Subject Object Verb)?
ASL has been signed for over 200 years, in fact, it was created the same year Mississippi was admitted as a state.
What is 1817?
The variation of a verb based off who is doing the action, when the action is/has/is going to happen/ and the tense of which it is happening.
What is conjugation?
This sign (~) when placed over a Spanish (n ) changes the pronuciation to ( ny ). This is shown in señor.
What is a tilde?
This French idiom, "avoir le cafard," literally means "to have the cockroach," but it actually means this.
What is "to feel down" or "to be depressed"?
Many languages use accents and punctuation to indicate sound changes. Latin uses this "ā".
What is a macron?
The only all deaf university in the world.
What is Gallaudet University?
There are thousands of languages, but how many exactly? (+100 or -100)
Close to 7,100 languages in the world!