Evolution of Language
The continent with the most language diversity.
What is Africa?
The languages on the southeastern African island nation of Madagascar originated in this present day country.
What is Indonesia?
Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian are all part of this Indo-European language branch
What is Balto-Slavic?
The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were tribes that lived in this present day country
What is Denmark
The lingua franca of aviation.
What is English?
A language still used by older people but is NOT in the process of being transmitted to younger generations.
What is an endangered language?
These two countries are home to almost 20% of the world's languages.
What are Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
Two-thirds of the people in the world speak a language that belongs to these two families.
What is the Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan family?
In North America, most languages that have gone extinct are associated with this group.
What is Native American?
The lingua franca of diplomacy.
What is France?
A mix of indigenous and colonial languages.
What is a creolized language?
This language was once considered a dialect of Spanish, is now classified as a distinct language, and is widely spoken in the city of Barcelona as well as the neighboring country of Andorra.
What is Catalan?
English belongs to this branch of languages within the Indo-European family.
What is the Germanic Branch?
A large number of people speak a Celtic language in this nation that became independent in 1921.
What is Ireland?
Potentially....this language is poised to become the next global lingua franca?
What is Mandarin?
A concept proposed by applied linguist Robert Phillipson. It argues that the dominance of English in the global sphere has negative consequences, similar to how a black hole absorbs everything around it.
What is the ELT (English Language Teaching) Black Hole Theory?
The most multi-lingual country in the world.
What is Papua New Guinea?
From most distant to closest relatives, languages can be classified into
What are families, branches, and groups
This many people live in countries around the world where English is an official language.
What is 2 billion ?
The official language of the United States
What is there is no official language?
A regional variation of a language spoken in a local area with a distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
French vocabulary poured into this language after a Norman invasion in 1066.
What is English?
The boundary between 2 language regions.
What is an isogloss?
The easiest language for a native English speaker?
What is Dutch or Afrikaans?
A language used in education, work, mass media, and government with a literary tradition.
What is an institutional language?