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Characteristics of Language
Language Families
"Hello" in Other Languages
Vocabulary
Global Studies Review
100
This is all of the words in a language.
What is vocabulary?
100
This language family includes Spanish, English, and French.
What is the Indo-European language family?
100
This word means "Hello" in Spanish.
What is "Hola?"
100
Humans mostly use language for this basic purpose.
What is communication?
100
This Indian independence leader used non-violence to protest British imperialism.
Who was Gandhi?
200
Most languages have this characteristic, but not all languages do.
What is writing?
200
This language family is dominated by Arabic.
What is the Afro-Asiatic language family?
200
This word means "Hello" in French.
What is "Bon jour"?
200
Written words are made of these.
What are letters?
200
This was a time when production changed from "by hand" to "by machine."
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
This is the orthography, or order of letters in words.
What is spelling?
300
This language family includes Mandarin Chinese.
What is the Sino-Tibetan language family?
300
"Salaam" means "hello" in this langauge.
What is Arabic?
300
People with different accents speak slightly differently.
What is pronunciation?
300
The British imperialized this nation or region.
What is India, China, or Africa.
400
This refers to the way your mouth forms a word to speak it.
What is pronunciation?
400
This language family dominates Europe.
What is the Proto-Indo-European language family?
400
"Hello" is "Shalom" in this language.
What is Hebrew?
400
This word describes how the same language can be slightly different in different places.
What is a dialect?
400
There are seven of these large landmasses.
What are continents?
500
These are the rules for speaking a language so that it is "correct."
What is grammar?
500
This language family dominates the Middle East.
What is the Afro-Asiatic language family?
500
This is "Hello" in Japanese.
What is "Kon-nichiwa"?
500
This is the order of words in a language.
What is syntax?
500
These are sources from history that we use to learn about the past. We can read them for information. They might also be images or cartoons.
What are documents?