1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Define it Name that term! History and Geography Of Language Name That Language!! Potpourri

2. ideogram

3. Symbols in Chinese languages representing ideas/concepts

4. Lingua Franca

5. Language of international communication

6. Literary Tradition

7. System of written communication

8. colonization

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

10. isogloss

11. A boundary that separates regions in which different languages uses predominate

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

13. Dialect

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

15. Noah Webster

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

17. Language Family

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

19. Creole or Creolized Language

20. The language family, branch and group of English…

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

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

23. Indo-European

24. Describe the Anatolian Hearth Theory

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

26. Now describe the Kurgan Theory

27. Kurgan people came from steppe region of Russia and Kazakhstan 3500-2500 BC used horses as weapons to conquer much of Europe & S Asia

28. The Flemings and Walloons live in what country?

29. Belgium

30. Point out language branch, family, group and language

31. Language (leaf) Language group Language branch Language family

32. Most spoken language in the world

33. Mandarin

34. Language spoken most widely across the planet (globalized)

35. English

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

37. Hebrew

38. Language spoken in provinces of the Roman Empire

39. Vulgar Latin

40. The official language of Switzerland….

41. Romansh

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

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

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

46. What are the 2 most important language families in Africa?

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

48. Using an example– describe the term Isolated Language

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

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