Define it Name that term! History and Geography Of Language Name That Language!! Potpourri

ideogram

Symbols in Chinese languages representing ideas/concepts

Lingua Franca

Language of international communication

Literary Tradition

System of written communication

colonization

an attempt by one country to establish settlements and impose its political/economic/cultural principles in another territory

isogloss

A boundary that separates regions in which different languages uses predominate

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation

Dialect

Responsible for the creation and diffusion of American English…..

Noah Webster

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor—long before recorded history

Language Family

A language that results from mixing a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of people being dominated.

Creole or Creolized Language

The language family, branch and group of English…

Family: Indo-European Branch: Germanic Group: West Germanic

What language family is described in the Anatolian hearth and Kurgan theories?

Indo-European

Describe the Anatolian Hearth Theory

Indo-European originated in Turkey around 2,000 years before the Kurgans and diffused through agricultural expansion.

Now describe the Kurgan Theory

Kurgan people came from steppe region of Russia and Kazakhstan BC used horses as weapons to conquer much of Europe & S Asia

The Flemings and Walloons live in what country?

Belgium

Point out language branch, family, group and language

Language (leaf) Language group Language branch Language family

Most spoken language in the world

Mandarin

Language spoken most widely across the planet (globalized)

English

Language that was revived in the 19 th -20 th centuries by Ben-Yehuda

Hebrew

Language spoken in provinces of the Roman Empire

Vulgar Latin

The official language of Switzerland….

Romansh

____ is spoken in Pakistan, while ________ is spoken in India

Pakistan= Urdu (written in Arabic) India= Hindi (written in Devanagari)

What are the top 2 language families spoken in the world?

What are the 2 most important language families in Africa?

North Africa= Afro-Asiatic Sub-Saharan Africa=Niger-Congo

Using an example– describe the term Isolated Language

Basque – isolated by Pyrenees Mts. Icelandic- isolated by Atlantic Ocean

Name the invaders of the British Isles that merged to form English…and which language was pushed aside because of this.