A set of sounds, combinations of sounds,
and symbols that are used for communication
What is a language
100
a slight change in a word across languages over time
What is a sound shift?
100
The number of languages spoken in Nigeria
What is 400?
100
a country in which only one language is spoken
What is a monolingual state?
100
This invention lead to the spread of standard language in the 15th century
What is the printing press?
200
A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs
What is isogloss?
200
two people can understand each other when speaking
What is mutual intelligibility?
200
The language spoken by the most people.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
200
a country in which more than one language is in use
What is a multilingual state?
200
The name of a place
What is a toponym?
300
variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines
What is a dialect?
300
tracking sound shifts and the hardening of consonants backward to reveal an “original” language.
What is backward reconstruction?
300
A branch on the language tree that has a dead end.
What is an isolated language?
300
Proto-Indo-European started in fertile and spread...
-From Anatolia diffused Europe’s languages
-From the Western Arc of Fertile Crescent diffused North
Africa and Arabia’s languages
-From the Eastern Arc of Fertile Crescent diffused
Southwes
What is Renfrew Hypothesis?
300
English is in this subfamily?
What is Germanic?
400
a language that is published, widely distributed, and
purposefully taught.
What is a standard language?
400
A language used among speakers of different languages
for the purposes of trade and commerce.
What is lingua Franca?
400
The European country that speaks both Flemish and Walloonia (French dialect)
What is Belgium?
400
With increased food supply and increased population, speakers from the hearth of Indo-European languages migrated into Europe
What is Agriculture Theory?
400
Latin is in this subfamily
What is Romance?
500
The precursor to all modern languages
What is Nostratic?
500
a language created when people combine parts of two or
more languages into a simplified structure and
vocabulary.
What is a pidgin language?
500
a pidgin language that has developed a more complex
structure and vocabulary and has become the native
language of a group of people.
What is a creole language?
500
Indo-European languages first moved from the hearth eastward into present-day Iran and then around the Caspian Sea and into Europe.