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Intro to Language

Section A: What is Language

Language is a system of communication that uses signs, gestures, marks, or vocal sounds to communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

What is the purpose of language?

Gives us the ability to communicate.

Allows us to teach new skills.

Provides us tools to transmit culture.

Is this Language?

Is this Language?

Is this Language?

How do languages differ?

Differences In Language Writing Direction Alphabets Allowable Sounds Grammar

Section B: Linguistic Geography

What is Linguistic Geography?

Linguistic Geography is the study of speech areas and their local variations.

Interesting Facts about Language:

There are an estimated 7,100 languages spoken in the world. Source: The CIA Factbook, 2013 There are an estimated 7,100 languages spoken in the world.

Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish are the mother tongue or second language of about half of the world's population

Approximately 80% of languages are spoken by less than 100,000 people.

Approximately 50 languages are only spoken by one person.

How do we track the history of language?

We track languages by looking at language divergence and convergence. Spatial Interaction between speakers break down causing new words to develop. British/Americans Language breaks into dialects and then into new tongues. Language Divergence Two languages become one because of close spatial interaction. This can also cause Language extinction Language Convergence We track languages by looking at language divergence and convergence.

We can tell what languages played part in the development of others. Latin: Crux Albanian: kryq Aromanian: crutse Catalan: creu Dalmatian: crauc English: crux, crucial French: croix Galician: cruz German: Kreuz Italian: croce Occitan: crotz Old Portuguese: cruz Portuguese: cruz Romanian: cruce Romansch: crusch, crousch Sardinian: cruche, crugi, cruxi, gruche, grughe, gruxi Serbo-Croatian: krȋž / кри̑ж Spanish: cruz Venetian: cróxe We can tell what languages played part in the development of others.

Section C: Categorizing Language

How do we categorize languages?

Language Families Languages Dialects Languages with a shared, but fairly distant origin. Languages Culturally Defined. Standard Languages are those recognized by people for use in schools, government, media, and general use. Dialects Regional Variants of a Standard Language.

What does the map above reveal about the diffusion of language?

Language families by speakers. Language Family Approx. # of Speakers % of Pop 1. Indo-European 2.562 billion 44.78% 2. Sino-Tibetan 1.276 billion 22.28% 3. Niger-Congo 358 million 6.26% 4. Afro-Asiatic 340 million 5.93% 5. Austronesian 312 million 5.45% 6. Dravidian 222 million 3.87% 7. Altaic 145 million 2.53% 8. Japanese 123 million 2.16% 9. Austro-Asiatic 101 million 1.77% 10. Tai-Kadai 78 million 1.37%

List the following languages in order of greatest to least based on number of native speakers: Arabic, Bengali, English, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Standard German

Commonly spoken languages by native speakers. Language % of Pop 1. Mandarin Chinese 12.44% 2. Spanish 4.85% 3. English 4.83% 4. Arabic 3.25% 5. Hindi 2.68% 6. Bengali 2.66% 7. Portuguese 2.62% 8. Russian 2.12% 9. Japanese 1.8% 10. Standard German 1.33%