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Where Are English Speakers Distributed?
The Indo European Family
Other Language Families
Why do People Preserve Local Languages?
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What three components make up a dialect?
What is spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary
100
English is part of which language family?
What is Indo European
100
What is the second largest language family?
What is Sino-Tibetan
100
What is the world's lingua franca?
What is English.
100
The thesis that proposes Indo European languages spread as a result military victory
What is nomadic warrior thesis
200
What group was responsible for introducing French words into the English language
What is Norman
200
The Latin of the masses
What is vulgar Latin
200
What is an ideogram?
What is a character that represents an idea
200
What are the two Celtic language branches?
What is Gaelic and Brythonic
200
95% of people in sub Saharan Africa speak languages of this family
What is Niger Congo
300
What four groups influenced old English?
What is Celts, Germans, Normans, and Vikings.
300
Name a lesser used romance language
What is Catlan, Romansh, Ladino, Sardinian, Fruilian
300
The language family that us spoken in Indonesia
What is Austronesian
300
Give an example of a isolated language
What is basque, icelandic
300
The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of
What is Iceland's relative isolation from other places.
400
Name the three major dialects of the US
What is New England, Southeastern, Middle Atlantic
400
Name the five most common Romance languages
What is Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian
400
A branch of Sino Tibetan spoken in areas of southeastern Asia
What is Tai Kadai
400
What languages are spoken in Belgium?
What is Flemish and French
400
Provide an example of a language in the Afro Asiatic family
What is Arabic, Hebrew
500
How many countries is English the official language of?
What is 57
500
Provide an example of a language in the Indo Iranian (Western)
What is Persian, Kurdish, Pashto
500
The click family
What is Khosian
500
Why do pidgin languages exist? What is a pidgin language?
What is a need for communication between groups that speak different languages. A simplified language.
500
Name the three countries where Uralic languages are spoken
What is Estonia, Finland, Hungary