The language family that includes English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Russian, Slavic, Greek, Albanian, Armenian, Persian, Urdu, Maratha, Hindi...
What is Indo-European
100
A language that speakers who don't speak one another's native languages adopt for communication
What is a lingua franca
100
Planning to change the vocabulary, writing system, etc. of a language
What is corpus planning
100
Do Arabic and Armenian belong to the same language family?
No
Arabic - Afro-Asiatic/Semitic
Armenian - Indo-European
100
The year Turkey became a non-Ottoman republic, and the last name of its president.
What are 1923 and Atatürk?
200
The subbranch of the Indo-European family which includes Hindi/Urdu, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Kurdish, Coptic...
What is Indo-Iranian
200
When a speaker alternates between languages in a conversation
What is codeswitching
200
Planning to suppress, glorify, outlaw, mandate the teaching of, etc. a language
What is status planning
200
Do Hebrew and Yiddish belong to the same language family?
No
Hebrew - Afro-Asiatic/Semitic
Yiddish - Indo-European/Germanic
200
The year of Algerian independence.
What is 1962
300
The language family that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Tamazight, Oromo, Somali...
What is Afro-Asiatic
300
What factors contribute to the creation of regional dialects? Name three.
What are isolation, identity, solidarity...
300
Do Farsi and Kurdish belong to the same language family?
Yes - Indo-European/Indo-Iranian
300
The founder of the Zionist movement
Who is Theodor Herzl
400
The subbranch of the Afro-Asiatic family that includes Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic
What is Semitic
400
The two languages used diglossically among the Amazigh minority in North Africa.
What are Tamazight and Arabic
400
Two changes that the government attempted to make, in order to switch from Ottoman Turkish to modernized Turkish.
What are orthographic reform and vocabulary creation?
400
Which two languages (that we've talked about extensively in class) is Tamazight most closely related to?
Arabic and Hebrew
Tamazight is Afro-Asiatic
Arabic and Hebrew are Afro-Asiatic/Semitic
400
Name three factors a society might need in order for language planning to be successful.
What are governmental support, educational programs, consistency, public support, suppression of other languages...
500
The language family that includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, and (according to some) Korean and Japanese?
What is Altaic
500
What factors can lead to the discouragement and/or oppression of minority languages? Name three.
What are low social status of speakers, government suppression, lack of preservation efforts...
500
Discussion question: What factors led to the failure of the attempted switch from French to Arabic in Algeria?
Lots of potential answers...
500
What is the language family of Coptic?
Indo-Iranian
500
An example of when a dominant language was not the most widely spoken language in the society.
What is basically any colonized country in an imperialism type situation...