Key Issues Where are folk languages distributed? Why is English related to other languages? Why do individual languages vary among places? Why do people.

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Key Issues Where are folk languages distributed? Why is English related to other languages? Why do individual languages vary among places? Why do people preserve local languages?

Learning Outcomes 5.1.1: Name the largest language families. 5.1.2: Identify the names and distribution of the two largest language families. 5.1.3: Identify the names and distribution of the largest language families in addition to Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan.

Where Are Languages Distributed? Language is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. Literary tradition refers to a system of written communication. Many countries designate at least one official language to be used for official documents and public objects—e.g., road signs and money. Ethnologue, which is quoted throughout this chapter, is an authoritative sources of languages. It estimates of the world has 6,909 languages. Only 11 of these languages, including English, are spoken by at least 100 million people

Where Are Languages Distributed? World’s languages organized into: Language Families: collection of languages related through a common ancestral language Language Branches: collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language. Differences are not as significant or as old as between families. Language Groups: collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary.

Where Are Languages Distributed? Classification of Languages 2/3 of the world’s population speak a language that belongs to the Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan language family. 2 to 6 percent of the world’s population speak a language that fits into one of seven other language families. Remainder of population speaks a language belonging to one of 100 smaller families.

FIGURE 5-3 LANGUAGE FAMILY TREE Language families with at least 10 million speakers according to Ethnologue are shown as trunks of trees. Some language families are divided into branches and groups. Individual languages that have more than 5 million speakers are shown as leaves. Below ground level, the language tree’s “roots” are shown, but these are speculative because they predated recorded history. FIGURE 5-4 SHARE OF EACH LANGUAGE FAMILY The chart shows the percentage of people who speak a language from each major family.

Where Are Languages Distributed? Distribution of Language Families The two largest language families are… Indo-European Predominate language family in Europe, South Asia, North America and Latin America. Sino-Tibetan Encompasses languages spoken in the People’s Republic of China and several smaller countries in Southeast Asia. No single Chinese language Mandarin is the most-used language in the world and the official language of both the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. Mandarin is one of six official languages in the U.N.

FIGURE 5-5 DISTRIBUTION OF LANGUAGE FAMILIES Most language can be classified into one of a handful of language families.

Where Are Languages Distributed? Other Asian Language Families Several other language families spoken by large numbers of people in East and Southeast Asia. Isolation on islands and peninsulas contributed to overall independent development. Austronesian Austro-Asiatic Tai Kadai Japanese Korean

Where Are Languages Distributed? Languages of Southwest Asia and North Africa and Central Asia Two largest language families are… Afro-Asiatic Arabic is major language. Official language in 24 countries of S.W. Asia and North Africa One of the six official languages in U.N. Altaic Altaic language with most speakers is Turkish. Altaic language became official language of several countries that gained independence when Soviet Union broke up—e.g., Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan.

Where Are Languages Distributed? African Language Families More than 1,000 distinct languages have been documented. Several thousand dialects recognized. Most lack a written tradition. Niger-Congo Swahili First language of 800,000 people Official language of Tanzania Spoken by 30 million Africans Language used to speak with outsiders from different villages

FIGURE 5-8 AFRICA’S LANGUAGE FAMILIES More than 1,000 languages have been identified in Africa, and experts do not agree on how to classify them into families, especially languages in central Africa. Languages with more than 5 million speakers are named on the map. The great number of languages results from at least 5,000 years of minimal interaction among the thousands of cultural groups inhabiting the African continent. Each group developed its own language, religion, and other cultural traditions in isolation from other groups.