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What is a Pidgin language?
A language created when people combine parts of two or more languages into a simplified structure and vocabulary
What is Spanglish an example of?
A pidgin langauge
What is mass communication doing to rural life?
Mass communication is diminishing daily activities and rural life.
What is a language family?
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language
Ex: Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan
What is a cartographer?
A map maker
What is a language franca?
A language of international communication, usually for commerce
What is one example of a language franca?
English, Swahili, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, or Arabic
What is the largest difference between rural and urban interaction?
Rural has less interaction where as urban has more.
What is a language branch?
A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language. Differences are not as significant or as old as between families.
Ex: Indo-Aryan
What is a projection?
Scientific method of transferring locations on Earths surface to a flat map
What is a isogloss?
A geographic language boundary within when a particular linguistic feature occurs
What is an example of an isogloss?
English is spoken differently in the US different parts of the US
Ex: New England, Southeastern, and the Midlands all speak English differently
How are british and English dialects similar?
They both use the Roman alphabet and use the same writing writing system.
What is a language group?
Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary.
Ex: Languages off the Indo-Aryan Branch
What is a region?
An area on Earth defined by one or more distinctive charecteristics
What is a language?
A system or communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understand to have the same meaning.
Ex: English, Arabic, Swahili, Mandarin, etc.
What are the 2 most spoken languages in the world?
Mandarin and English
How are British and English dialects different?
They are different in vocab, spelling and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
A regional variation of a language.
What is a node?
The starting point of a service or communication
What is a habit?
A repetitive act performed by an individual?
What is an example of a habit?
Brushing your teeth, washing your hands, etc.
What dialect does the British use?
They use a british recieved pronounciation which is a government dialect they have to use.
What is literacy Tradition
A system of written communications.
Ex: Writing in English
What is globalization?
A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope