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What are language
families?
What are language
branches?
Lingua Franca
Other vocab
100
A collection of languages stemming from one ancient language from prerecorded history
What is language families
100
Collection of languages with a common ancestral language, during not as old as language families
What is a language branch
100
An internationally spoken language used in commerce.
What is a lingua franca
100
A system of written communication
What is a literary tradition?
200
What are the 2 largest languages families
Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European
200
Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian are languages in this branch.
What is the Romantic Branch?
200
Most common lingua Franca
What is English
200
One language used for official documents for public objects.
What is official language?
300
What is the largest language family in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
Afro-Asiatic
300
This branch is spoken primarily in Northwestern Europe and North America.
What is the Germanic Branch?
300
What is the lingua Franca in east Africa?
Swahalli
300
What is the largest language?
Mandarin
400
Indo-European
What is the largest language family?
400
This branch has the most speakers in the Indo-European Family.
What is Indo-Iranian
400
What is the most common lingua Franca in South Asia?
Hindi
400
What is a language?
System of communication through speech or a collection of sounds.
500
More than 1,000 distinct languages have been documented in this region of language families.
What is African Language Families?
500
This language branch was originally one single language.
What is the Balto-Slavic language Branch?
500
What is the most common language in former Soviet Union?
Russian
500
This language will surpass English as the most common language on the internet by 2020.
What is Mandarin?