1.  Language and Culture LT 5. I can define language and examine its impact on culture.

2.  ❧ What type of American English do you speak? What type of American English do you speak? How do you talk?

3.  ❧ System of communication through speech ❧ Collection of sounds that people believe to have same meaning Language

4.  ❧ Language Family – languages related through common ancestral language, existed prior to recorded history ❧ Language Branch – languages w/in a family related through common ancestral language, existed several thousand yrs. ago ❧ Language Group – languages w/in a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past Families, Branches and Groups

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7.  ❧ Native Speaker - people whom the language is their first language ❧ Dialect – regional variation of language distinguished by distinctive vocab, spelling, and pronunciation Language and Culture

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9.  ❧ Isolated Language – a language unrelated to any other language ❧ Endangered Language – in danger of becoming extinct ❧ Extinct Language – once in use, but no longer spoken or read daily by anyone in the world. Languages Lost?