This is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
What is a language?
100
This is ONE of the two largest language families.
What are Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan families?
100
Modern English has evolved primarily from the language spoken by ONE of these three Germanic tribes invading the British Isles.
What are the Angles, Jutes, or Saxons?
100
This is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
100
This is a type of language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is an isolated language?
200
This refers to a system of written communication.
What is a literary tradition?
200
This is ONE of the other language families spoken by East and Southeast Asian cultures.
What is Austronesian, Austro-Asiatic, Tai Kadai, Japanese, or Korean?
200
ONE of these two European tribes influenced basic English after it took hold in the British Isles.
What are Vikings or Normans?
200
This is a boundary of where regional words are used.
What is an isogloss?
200
This language type is one that is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.
What is an extinct language?
300
This is used for official documents and public objects—e.g., road signs and money.
What is an official language?
300
This is ONE of the largest language families in Southwest Asia, North Africa and Central Asia.
What is Afro-Asiatic or Altaic?
300
This conflict secured English as the dominant language in North America.
What is the defeat of France by England?
300
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?
300
This is a language of international communication, which threatens the use of local languages.
What is a lingua franca?
400
This is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language.
What is a language family?
400
This language family has more than 1,000 distinct languages have been documented here, with several thousand dialects recognized, and most lack a written tradition.
What is the African language family?
400
This country has spread English all over the world in the 20th century.
What is the United States?
400
This is ONE of the three original dialect regions in the United States.
What is New England, Southeastern, and Midlands?
400
This language is increasingly important in recent years in United States because of large-scale immigration.
What is Spanish?
500
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?
500
This is the first language of 800,000 people, the official language of Tanzania, and is spoken by 30 million Africans.
What is Swahili?
500
This was the first successful English colony in North America in 1607.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
500
Language differences tend to be greatest in these areas because of limited interaction with people from other dialect regions.
What are rural areas?
500
This language will likely replace English as the most-frequently used online language before 2020.