Indo- European Languages. Language Distribution. Language subdivisions. Terms English Potpourri

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1 Language

2 Language Distribution Language subdivisions Indo- European Languages Terms English Potpourri

3 Language Distributions - 1 What language family is represented by yellow in this distribution?

4 Language Distributions - 1 Indo-European

5 Language Distributions - 2 What language family is represented by brown in this distribution?

6 Language Distributions - 2 Sino-Tibetan

7 Language Distributions - 3 What language is represented by this distribution? (not language family although closely correlated)

8 Language Distributions - 3 Arabic

9 Language Distributions - 4 What language family is represented by blue in this distribution?

10 Language Distributions - 4 Uralic

11 Language Distributions - 5 What language family is represented by this distribution?

12 Language Distributions - 5 Altaic

13 Language Subdivisions - 1 What is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral tongue that existed long before recorded history called?

14 Language Subdivisions - 1 language family

15 Language Subdivisions - 2 What term refers to a culture s system of written communication?

16 Language Subdivisions - 2 literary tradition

17 Language Subdivisions - 3 A) A collection of languages related through a common ancestral tongue that existed several thousand years ago (Romance, Celtic, etc.) is called what? B) What is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation? C) What term describes the language used by the common people?

18 Language Subdivisions - 3 A) language branch B) dialect C) vernacular

19 Language Subdivisions - 4 A) a collection of languages that share a common origin in the recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary B) this type of language is designated by the government for use in laws, reports and public objects such as road signs, money and stamps.

20 Language Subdivisions - 4 A) group B) official

21 Language Subdivisions - 5 A) A language that is absorbed by another language but influences it. B) The grammatical arrangement of a language C) An intrusive language that influences the native language.

22 Language Subdivisions - 5 A) substrate B) syntax C) superstrate

23 Indo-European Languages - 1 The diffusion of Indo-European languages across the globe is closely related to what two concepts?

24 Indo-European Languages - 1 Colonialism migration

25 Indo-European Languages - 2 This Indo-European language branch is believed to have been among the first to migrate into the continent and has been pushed to remote areas in Ireland, Wales and France.

26 Indo-European Languages - 2 Celtic

27 Indo-European Languages - 3 What Indo- European language branches are represented by the A) red B) dark blue C) green on the map?

28 Indo-European Languages - 3 A) Germanic B) Slavic C) Romance

29 Indo-European Languages - 4 A) In these three European countries a majority of the people speak tongues in the Uralic language family? B) This language, spoken in Spain/SW France, is unrelated to any other known language?

30 Indo-European Languages - 4 A) Hungary, Finland and Estonia B) (Euskera) Basque

31 Indo-European Languages - 5 A) According to the Kurgan hearth theory, what are two characteristics of the lifestyle that the originators of the Indo- European languages lead? B) According to the Anatolian hearth theory, how did the originators of the Indo-European languages come to dominate Europe?

32 Indo-European Languages - 5 A) Nomadic (horse and cattle herdering) warriors B) They had higher population growth because they were sedentary farmers.

33 Terms - 1 a boundary between language regions.

34 Terms - 1 isogloss

35 Terms - 2 What do we call a language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages and fulfills the role as the common language of a global economy, culture and diplomacy?

36 Terms - 2 lingua franca

37 Terms - 3 A) constructed international auxiliary language which was intended to be a universal second language that would allow people around the world to communicate effectively and easily. B) Belgium is a good example of this type of country with significant populations of people speaking different languages? C) Chinese is written in the form of what?

38 Terms - 3 A) esperanto B) multilingual state C) ideograms

39 Terms - 4 A) This language with no native speakers and is created when people combine parts of two of more languages into a simplified structure and vocabulary. B) This language is a mixture of indigenous and colonial languages that has become the first language of native speakers and has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary.

40 Terms - 4 A) pidgin B) creole

41 Terms - 5 A) Two terms (often considered derogatory) used by European settlers in South Africa for Khoisan people who spoke using clicks. B) Mixture of African languages and Arabic which arose along the East African coast and is used there as a lingua franca. C) The spread of Niger-Congo languages is linked to a migration by these peoples from their cultural hearth near Cameroon and Nigeria.

42 Terms - 5 A) Hottentots/Bushmen B) Swahili C) Bantu

43 English - 1 Approximately how many people worldwide speak English as a first language (± 50 million)

44 English million

45 English - 2 What dialect mostly associated with upper-class Britons living near London is recognized in much of the English-speaking world as the standard form of British speech (no abbreviations)?

46 English - 2 British Received Pronunciation (BRP)

47 English - 3 Describe how English is related to other languages by indicating its family, branch and group.

48 English - 3 Indo-European family Germanic branch West Germanic group

49 English - 4 A) What three Germanic peoples from the area around Denmark invaded Britain starting in the 5 th century? B) What French-speaking group was the last to successfully invade Britain in AD 1066?

50 English - 4 A) Angles, Saxons and Jutes B) Normans

51 English - 5 A)From what area did the majority of English speakers in the United States receive their dialect B) In what three ways do dialects differ?

52 English - 5 A) Middle Atlantic B) Spelling, Pronunciation and Vocabulary

53 Potpourri - 1 This is the most commonly spoken first language?

54 Potpourri - 1 Mandarin

55 Potpourri - 2 This is the most important language family in sub- Saharan Africa?

56 Potpourri - 2 Niger-Congo

57 Potpourri - 3 A) What previously extinct language has been revived in the second half of the 20 th century? B) Besides the above language, list two other sacred languages that are extinct in terms of everyday or vernacular usage?

58 Potpourri - 3 A) Hebrew B) Sanskrit, Latin

59 Potpourri - 4 A) What language is the most commonly spoken in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family? B) What language family believed to be the most closely related to the earliest development of language has been pushed into a corner Southwest Africa by both the Bantu migration and arrival of the Europeans?

60 Potpourri - 4 A) Hindi B) Khoisan

61 Potpourri - 5 In what branch of the Indo- European language family do these languages belong? A)Romanian B)Swedish C)Ukrainian D)French E)Serbo-Croatian

62 Potpourri - 5 A) Romance B) Germanic C) Slavic D) Romance E) Slavic