Languages
What are two language families?
Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Arabic, Etc.
What are the branches of the Indo-European language?
Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic.
Can dialects become languages?
Yes.
What are the three main U.S dialects?
North, Midland, South
What is the United Nations six Official/Working languages?
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Chinese.
What are the classifications of languages?
Industrial, Developing, Vigorous, Threatened, Dying
What is the most widespread type of language family.
Indo-European
What is a dialect?
It's a regional variation of a language decided by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What are some examples of U.S sub-dialects.
Appalachian, Rocky Mountain, Gulf Southern, South Midland, North Midland.
What is an Working language?
It's a language that is designated by an international organization or corporation for daily correspondence or conversation.
What is the difference between a language group and language family?
A language family has existed before recorded history while a language group has not.
How do languages diffuse?
They diffuse when someone comes to a new area and the natives start to speak the language.
What is an Isogloss?
It's a word-use boundary with a degree of geographic extent.
What is African American Vernacular English?
During slavery African Americans had their own dialect, and when they moved to the north and Midwest they brought their dialect with them and now a large population of African Americans speak it.
Was is an informal language?
It's a new language being created through mixing English with other languages.
What is a sharing of international communication?
Lingua Franca
What is the sedentary farmer theory?
It's the theory that the first Indo-European language was diffused through agricultural practices.
What is a sub-dialect?
Is a sub-division of a dialect or a dialect within a dialect.
Why do people speak English differently in the USA then they do in England?
People in the USA need different words for different things. Different climate, landscape, people.
What are some examples of informal languages?
Franglais, Spanglish, Denglish
What type of language is used by the government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct other public business?
Official language
What is the nomadic warrior theory?
It's the theory that the Indo-European language was diffused through warfare and conquest.
What is Mutual intelligibility?
This refers to the ability of people speaking in two ways to readily understand each other.
Why do people in southern USA have a different dialect then the people in the North.
The people who lived in the south who originally came from England were of lower class (Prisoners, Indentured servants, and people fleeing religious persecution).
What is a Creolized language?
It's the result from the mixing of a colonizers language and the indigenous language of the people being dominated.