1. Language

2. 1 2 3 4 5 Language Distribution Language subdivisions
Indo-European Languages
Terms
English
Potpourri 1 2 3 4 5

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
language branch
dialect
vernacular

19. Language Subdivisions - 4
a collection of languages that share a common origin in the recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
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
group
B) official

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

22. Language Subdivisions - 5
substrate
syntax
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
red
dark blue
green
on the map?

28. Indo-European Languages - 3
Germanic
Slavic
Romance

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

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

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

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

33. a boundary between language regions.
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. Chinese is written in the form of what?
Terms - 3
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.
Belgium is a good example of this type of country with significant populations of people speaking different languages?
Chinese is written in the form of what?

38. Terms - 3
esperanto
multilingual state
ideograms

39. Terms - 4
This language with no native speakers and is created when people combine parts of two of more languages into a simplified structure and vocabulary.
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
pidgin
creole

41. Terms - 5
Two terms (often considered derogatory) used by European settlers in South Africa for Khoisan people who spoke using clicks.
Mixture of African languages and Arabic which arose along the East African coast and is used there as a lingua franca.
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
Hottentots/Bushmen
Swahili
Bantu

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

44. English - 1
350 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. British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
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
What three Germanic peoples from the area around Denmark invaded Britain starting in the 5th century?
B) What French-speaking group was the last to successfully invade Britain in AD 1066?

50. Angles, Saxons and Jutes Normans
English - 4
Angles, Saxons and Jutes
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. Spelling, Pronunciation and Vocabulary
English - 5
Middle Atlantic
Spelling, Pronunciation and Vocabulary

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

54. Potpourri - 1
Mandarin

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

56. Potpourri - 2
Niger-Congo

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

58. Potpourri - 3
Hebrew
Sanskrit, Latin

59. Potpourri - 4
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
Hindi
Khoisan

61. Potpourri - 5
In what branch of the Indo-European language family do these languages belong?
Romanian
Swedish
Ukrainian
French
Serbo-Croatian

62. Potpourri - 5
Romance
Germanic
Slavic