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This is a system of communication through speech, movement, sounds, or symbols that a group of people understand to have the same meaning.
What is a language?
Cathy has 25 bottles of pop in Canton, Ohio that she bought from and she wants to give them to Abby in California. Abby is confused at first, but her friend Melissa explains that pop is the same thing as soda. This is an example of ___
What is an isogloss?
This is a collection of languages related through ancestral history long before recorded history.
What is a family?
Jimmy Fallon accidentally travels back 1000 years to the Roman Empire in his special time travel machine. He is confused when everybody is speaking Vulgar Latin. When he goes back to the present, his friendMs. Schuster explains that Vulgar Latin is a _____ language that is not spoken in his time period. What is the blank?
What is extinct language?
This is a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language. Differences are not as significant or as old as between families.
What is language branch?
This is ONE of two things that have contributed to the existence of a large number of English dialects.
What is large number of speakers and widespread distribution?
Ms. Schuster is a huge fan of BTS and is able to understand certain parts of the song that are in English. This is an example of ______?
What is a lingua franca?
languages within a branch sharing common origin in the relatively recent past
What is group? (language group)
Ainu is a language that doesn't have any traceable relationships with any other language.
Ainu is an example of...
What is isolated language?
Ms. Schuster and Cardi B are learning Akkadian, an extinct language, for a new music video. This is an example of___
What is preserving languages?
a language that is unrelated to any other language/they are the only language in their language family.
What is isolated English?
Despite being the language with the most speakers, Mandarin is not a lingua franca because...
a. The people that speak Mandarin aren't fluent
b. English has the most native speakers
c. Mandarin isn't spoken globally as much as English
d. English is better xd
What is c?
Ms. Schuster takes her fifth-period class on a trip to Germany, where they speak German. When they read the street signs, they realized that it was easier than they thought to guess the meaning. Ms. Schuster explains that German and English are in the same language ____ and ____.
What is family and branch?