Phonetics & Phonology
What does IPA stand for?
(Bonus Points: What is the name of the organization that made the IPA)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Bonus: International Phonetic Association
What are the three parts of word order
Subject, Object, Verb
What language family consists of English, Spanish, Farsi, and Hindi, and is the largest language family in the world
What writing system is this sentence written in?
Alphabet
What is the first topic in the linguistics circle
Phonetics
What are the three qualities that we use to characterize consonants?
Bonus: What are they for vowels
Place and Articulation and Voicing
Bonus: Backness, Height, Rounding
What is the most common word order cross-linguistically?
SOV
What is the name of the hypothesis that all languages are related
Nostratic Hypothesis
What writing system has a character for every syllable
Syllabary
What is a language isolate
Bonus: Name a language isolate
A language that has no other known relatives
What is the name of the sound /r/
Voiced Alveolar Trill
What 4 things are affixes an umbrella term for
Prefix, Suffix, Infix, Disfix
What proposed language family consists of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, (and sometimes Koreanic and Japonic) languages
Altaic
What writing system has one character for each word
Logography
What language is most closely related to English
Frisian
If a language has the words "xato", and "xado", and they mean different things, what is the relationship between the sounds /t/ and /d/
They are distinct phonemes
If a language is completely head-initial will it have prepositions or postpositions
Prepositions
What language family is not related to Indo European but has many famous members of its family in Europe
Uralic
If a language has a very limited syllable structure, what type of writing system would be feasible that wouldn't be in a language with more open syllable structure
Syllabary
What is semantics
The study of meaning
What is the name of the sound /q/
Voiceless Uvular Stop
What are the three main parts of verb forms?
Tense, aspect, and mood
Russian
Let's say we have a language with a large amount of consonants and very few vowels. What kind of writing system would the speakers probably use?
Abjad
Are you a prescriptivist or descriptivist
DESCRIPTIVIST!!!!!!