Languages
The amount of languages spoken in the world.
What is approximately 7200?
This is the world's oldest writing system that is still actively in use.
What is Chinese?
This process occurs when a language has no more NATIVE speakers.
What is language death?
The structure of a syllable consists of three main parts. Name one of them.
What is a(n) onset, nucleus, or coda?
This is the name of the craft that studies the relationship and interactions between syntax and morphology.
What is morphosyntax?
This country has the most amount of spoken languages within its borders.
What is Papua New Guinea?
(840 recognized languages)
This is the world's oldest writing system.
What is Cuneiform?
The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger has six vulnerability levels. Name one of them.
What is 1. Extinct, 2. Critically Endangered, 3. Severely Endangered, 4. Definitely Endangered, 5. Vulnerable, or 6. Safe/Not Endangered?
Vowel harmony occurs when vowels change their pronunciation to share specific distinctive features. Name the most common harmonic feature across Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is tongue root harmony?
There are this amount of morphemes in the word antidisestablishmentarianism
.
What is six? (Anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism)
This country is the only country in the world with only one language spoken in its borders.
What is North Korea?
What is Korean or Vietnamese?
A language is considered extinct when it has no more native or second-language speakers. This is the only language to be considered completely revived from extinction and now has 9 million active speakers.
What is Hebrew?
This branch of phonology deals with allowances and restrictions on syllable structure.
What is phonotactics?
This system provides a list of lines that include text from a language separated into individual morphemes, the technical meaning of those morphemes, and the translation of the original text.
What is (interlinear) gloss?
This language family is accepted as a fringe theory and claimed that the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic, and Ainu language families are all related.
What is Altaic?
"The most important advance in the history of writing" occurred when scribes switched from using syllabic writing to this other kind of writing system.
What is alphabetic?
Bottom-to-top language death occurs when a language stops being used in casual conversation and starts to be used only for this special purpose.
What is a religious or ceremonial purpose?
All languages have a variation of pitch that can be used for grammatical, emotional, or emphatic purposes. This concept is related to, but distinct from tone. This concept is...
What is intonation?
The first in-depth grammar text was created approximately in 500 BCE and is considered the beginning of the study of morphology. The text discussed the grammar of this language.
What in Sanskrit?
Chomsky proposed the theory of Universal Grammar, which implies that all people are born with a language module, and that a language's grammar must align with the pre-exisiting grammar stored in the module. The discovery of this language caused many linguists to reject this theory.
What is Pirahã?
This is the only writing system native to the United States that is not Latin.
What is Cherokee?
A revived language is a language which once had no alive speakers, but has since developed some native or second-language speakers. UNESCO recognizes this number of revived languages.
What is three? (Cornish, Manx, Livonian)
Name one of the language families that is known for their unique click sounds.
What is Khoison or Bantu?
A synthetic language is a language that uses many affixes to change the meaning of a word. Closely related to polysynthetic, this is the name of the theoretical concept where a sentence is almost completely made by complex affixes.
What is oligosynthetic?