A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family
What is language branch
100
Largest language family
What is Niger-Congo
100
Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
What is north Germanic
100
The system of writing used in china and other East Asian countries in which easy symbol represents an idea or concept rether than a different sound, as is the case with English letters
What is ideograms
200
A regional variety of a language distributed by vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation.
What is Dialect.
200
The lingua Franca of Southeast Asia
What is mandarin
200
North America and northwestern Europe
What is Indo-European
200
English, German, Dutch, and Afrikaans
What is West Germanic
200
Dialect spoken by some African Americans
What is Ebonics
300
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
What is extinct Language
300
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication
What is standard language
300
The language family spoken in east Asia
What is Sino-Tibetan
300
Scottish, Welsh, Irish
What is Brittanic
300
A language that results from mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
What is creole, or creolized language
400
A boundary that separates regions in which different usages predominant.
What is an Isogloss
400
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
What is language
400
Spoken in the Middle East, parts of Africa, and Western Asia
What is Afro-Asiatic
400
Romanian, Italian, Spanish, French
What is Latin/romance
400
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of français, and anglais, the French words for French and English, respectively.
What is franglais
500
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is a lingua Franca
500
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family