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Types of Languages Language Definitions People and Languages Identity
Row 1, Col 1 French, Italian, Provencal, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Romanian The Romance Languages
1,2 When a language is no longer in use by any living people. Language Extinction
1,3 When two people can understand each other when speaking; cannot be measured Mutual intelligibility
1,4 Jim Crow laws are an example of what? Racism
2,1 What language was revived After a new state was created And WWII ended? Hebrew
2,2 Geographical boundary lines where different linguistic features meet. Isogloss
2,3 A slight change in a word across languages or through a language family from the present backward towards its origin Sound Shift
2,4 Identity if fluid in that it is _______. Constantly changing, shifting, and forming
3,1 A language in which all government business occurs. Official Language
3,2 These are examples of _______ Georgia, Baltimore, Virginia, Mississippi River, Wall Street Toponyms
3,3 States that have one official language. Ex. Japan, Iceland, and Portugal Monolingual State
3,4 “Marylander” is an identity across which scale? Regional
4,1 Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from the parent form Dialect
4,2 A multilingual state. Polyglot
4,3 Claims that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European first carried eastward into Southwest Asia, next around the Caspian Sea, and then across the Russian- Ukrainian plains and on into the Balkans. Dispersal Hypothesis
4,4 Everyone in the world is this race? Human Race
5,1 An example of a constructed international auxiliary language created by L. L. Zamenhof Esperanto
5,2 A language where two groups of people that speak two different languages meet; the new language with some characteristics of each results. Pidgin Language
5,3 Claims that’s from Anatolia diffused Europe’s Indo-European languages from the western arc of the Fertile Crescent came the languages of North Africa and Arabia from the Fertile Crescent eastern arc ancient languages spread into present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, later to be replaced by Indo- European languages. Renfrew Hypothesis
5,4 Brighton Beach, Brooklyn is an example of what? Invasion and Succession