Key Issue #5 Language
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Niger Congo | What are the 4 major language families from biggest to smallest. |
| Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian | What are the 4 branches of the Indo-European language family? |
| North, West | What are the two branches of the Germanic branch? |
| Cultural Diversity | Earth's collection of languages is one of its most obvious examples of what? |
| Ethnologue | One of the most authoritative sources of languages. |
| Africa, Asia | Two continents are difficult to document the languages found there. What are they? |
| Language, Religion, Ethnicity | 3 traits that best distinguish cultural values are: |
| Interaction, Isolation | The global distribution of languages results from a combination of 2 geographic processes: |
| Place | A language diffuses at a particular: |
| Celts | Who arrived in the British Isles in 2000 BC? |
| Cornwall, Scotland, Wales | 450 AD, tribes from mainland Europe invaded and pushed the Celts into what 3 countries? |
| Angles, Jutes, Saxons | What three European peoples originally came together to form the English people and the English language? |
| South Denmark | Where did the Angles come from? |
| North Denmark | Where did the Jutes come from? |
| Northwest Germany | Where did the Saxons come from? |
| Vikings and Normans | What two subsequent invasions added additional words to the evolving English language? |
| Pronunciation, Spelling, Vocabulary | 3 ways U.S. English is different than England. |
| Northern, Midland, Southern | Two important isoglosses separate the eastern USA into 3 dialect regions known as: |
| Rural Areas | Language differs the most in: |
| East Coast | As more of the West was opened to settlement during the 19th century, people migrated from all parts of the: |
| California Gold Rush | What attracted people throughout the east? |
| Hindi | Most important Indian language. |
| Polish | Most important West Slavic language. |
| Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian | 4 romance languages. |
| Proto-Indo-European | The theoretical common ancestral language of all languages in this chapter. |
| Mandarin | This language has the most native speakers. |
| Elders, not passed down | Many languages are nearly extinct because of two reasons. |
| Andora, Basques | Two isolated languages. |
| English, Mandarin | Two lingua francas. |
| England | Which European country does not speak a romance language. |
| Swahili | Example of a creolized language. |
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