a language that is published, widely distributed and purposely taught
What is a standard language?
100
Which European country has a rather sharp division between Flemish speakers in the north and Walloon speakers (French) in the south?
What is Belgium?
100
The largest spoken language branch on earth.
What is Indo-European?
100
The tracking of shifting consonants and cognates back in an effort to reconstruct elements of a prior common language.
What is backward reconstruction?
100
Romance languages have much in common because they lie areas of Europe that were once controlled by this Empire.
What is Roman (Latin)?
200
a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs. (language border)
What is an isogloss?
200
Use your plates and go up the apples means what in cockney rhyming slang?
What is "use your feet (plate of meat) and go up the stairs (apples and pears)?
200
The second largest language family today.
What is Sino-Tibetan?
200
English is a branch of this Into-European language branch?
What is Germanic?
200
Clusters of French toponyms in Louisiana, Dutch toponyms in Michigan and Welsh toponyms in Pennsylvania reflect...
What is the shift of names associated with migration?
300
a system in which dialects are more closely related to each other the closer they are to each other
What is a dialect chain?
300
Ireland requires all government employees to pass an exam in this standard language before they can be hired.
What is Irish (Celtic)?
300
Which language family contains almost 1/4 of the worlds languages?
What is Niger-Congo?
300
When spatial interaction among speakers of a language breaks down and the language fragments first into dialects and then into discrete tongues.
What is language divergence?
300
According to George Stewart, Lasker, North Carolina is this kind of toponym?
What is a mistake? What was it was supposed to be called?
400
When a pidgin language becomes the first language of a population it is referred to as a
What is a creole?
400
The “People of Han” are united in their ability to read the characters in this, the most spoken native language on earth.
What is Chinese?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Where are the two theoretical hearths where the Proto-Indo European language might have originated?
What is north of the Caspian Sea (Kurgan Theory) and Turkey (Anatolian Theory)
400
The two theories of the Proto-Indo-European language dispersal are the conquest theory and...
What is the spread of agriculture?
400
The U.S. region with the greatest concentration of streets memorializing Martin Luther King.
What is the South, especially Georgia?
500
Any language used as a common means of communication, especially in trade or business transactions, in an area where several different languages are spoken, such as Swahili in East Africa
What is Lingua Franca?
500
Arabic, the official language in two dozen countries of North Africa and southwestern Asia, from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula, belongs to this language family.
What is Afro-Asiatic?
500
With 100 or more local tribal languages and cultural differences that threaten to split this African country into warring factions, it needs a common language to unify the country.
What is Nigeria?
500
This third important language family in the southwest of sub
Saharan Africa is made with clicking sounds.
What is Khoisan?
500
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc exists as a town name so young people can have a benchmark to pronounce it in this language.