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Deliciously Diverse Languages
French Fry Families
Mystery Flavor
Enticing Eggy Examples
Saucy Spaghetti Examples
100
Official language
What is the language set by the government for use in public documents?
100
Language
What is a system of communications through speech?
100
Hebrew is an example of this.
What is a revived language?
100
Spainglish is an example of this language type.
What is a pidgin language?
100
English, Swahili, and Romanian are examples of this.
What is a language?
200
Isolated Language
What is a language formed from separation?
200
Dialect
What is a regional variation of a language?
200
The Jutes, Normans, and Celts all helped make this.
What is English?
200
Mandarin and Swahili are examples of this language type.
What is a lingua franca?
200
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan are examples of this language grouping.
What are language families?
300
Lingua Franca
What is a language used for international communication?
300
Language Family
What is a group of languages connected by a common origins predating history?
300
These may or may not exist below families.
What is a super family?
300
English, but not in the United States, is an example of this is many place.
What is an official language?
300
Arabic has many of these, some of which can't understand each other.
What is a dialect?
400
Pidgin language
What is a type of language formed from two other languages that don't commonly mix?
400
Language Group
What is a set of languages that displays similar grammar and vocab?
400
The dialect made standard in Britain.
What is British Received Pronunciation?
400
A language on an island in the middle of the Pacific is an example of this language type.
What is an isolated language?
400
Indo-Iranian, Germanic, and Romance are examples of this language grouping.
What are language branches?
500
Creole Language
What is a pidgin language that has become the native language of a group of people?
500
Language branch
What is a language related to a common ancestor of 2000 years with differences not as significant as between families?
500
A very similar language to Hindi, but recognized as distinct.
What is Urdu?
500
Sango and Kinubi are both examples of this language type.
What is a creole language?
500
German, Dutch, and Afrikaans is an example of this language groups.
What is a language group?