A regional variation of a language separated by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
100
The English language family
What is Indo-European?
100
The place where the invading Germanic tribes came from.
What is present-day Denmark & Germany?
100
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
What is a language branch?
100
About 20% of the population speaks a language in this family.
What is Sino-Tibetan?
200
The standard form of British speech.
What is British Received Pronunciation?
200
The English language branch.
What is the Germanic branch?
200
Where the name of England came from?
What is Angles' Land?
200
The Indo-European branch with the most speakers.
What is the Indo-Iranian branch?
200
The trunk of the language tree.
What is a language family?
300
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
What is a language group?
300
The English language group.
What is West Germanic?
300
England lost control of Normandy and put them in conflict with France, so people wished to speak French less.
How did English become England's dominant language again?
300
The official way to write Hindi.
What is the Devanagari script?
300
The leaves on the language tree.
What are the individual languages?
400
The Latin that people in the provinces learned that wasn't the standard literary form.
What is Vulgar Latin?
400
The first English speakers.
Who are the Kurgans?
400
The main reason for English distribution.
What is English migration and colonization?
400
Term that now offends Bosnians and Croatians.
What is Serbo-Croatian?
400
The most important Chinese language.
What is Mandarin?
500
A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language.
What is a creolized language?
500
The dialect used by upper class residents in London and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
What is the standard language for writing and speech in England?
500
Tribes that invaded Germany.
What are the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons?
500
A language branch that evolved from Latin 2,000 years ago.