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Vocabulary
Individual Languages
Indo-European Language Branches
Language Families
Language & Culture
100
This is a system of sounds understood by a group of people to mean the same thing
What is a language?
100
This is the most spoken language in the world.
What is Mandarin?
100
This is the branch in which English is classified.
What is Germanic?
100
Languages such as Mandarin are in this family.
What is the Sino-Tibetan branch?
100
When Israel was formed in 1948, this language was named an official language along with Arabic.
What is Hebrew?
200
This is a written system of communication.
What is literary tradition?
200
This is the most spoken West Germanic language.
What is English?
200
This branch contains languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin.
What are the Romance languages?
200
Languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are in this family.
What is Afro-Asiatic?
200
In this country, a linguistic boundary between Walloons and Flemings has created a divide.
What is Belgium?
300
This is a language that is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.
What is an extinct language?
300
This is the most spoken Romance language.
What is Spanish?
300
Russian, Polish and Czech are in this Indo-European branch.
What are the Balto-Slavic languages?
300
The official languages of countries such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are in this family.
What is Altaic?
300
This is the lingua franca of East Africa.
What is Swahili?
400
This is a geographical boundary where a linguistic feature is observed.
What is an isogloss?
400
This form of the Hindustani language is written in the Arabic alphabet.
What is Urdu?
400
Many languages spoken in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are part of the Indic group of this branch.
What is Indo-Iranian?
400
More than 95% of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa speak languages in this family.
What is the Niger-Congo family?
400
This language spoken in a region of Spain is the only language that survives from before the arrival of Indo-European languages.
What is Basque?
500
This is a language that is unrelated to any others.
What is an isolated language?
500
This was the name for the language spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia when they were part of Yugoslavia.
What is Serbo-Croatian?
500
Name one of the four less extensively used Indo-European branches.
What is Albanian, Armenian, Greek or Celtic?
500
Estonians, Finns and Hungarians speak languages in this family.
What is the Uralic family?
500
Racial segregation in the United States preserved this English dialect spoken by African-Americans.
What is Ebonics?