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Language

Language

Distribution

Language

subdivisions

Indo-

European

Languages

Terms English Potpourri

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2 2 2 2 2 2

3 3 3 3 3 3

4 4 4 4 4 4

5 5 5 5 5 5

Language Distributions - 1

What language family is represented

by yellow in this distribution?

Language Distributions - 1

Indo-European

Language Distributions - 2

What language family is represented

by brown in this distribution?

Language Distributions - 2

Sino-Tibetan

Language Distributions - 3

What language

is represented

by this

distribution? (not “language family”

although closely

correlated)

Language Distributions - 3

Arabic

Language Distributions - 4

What language family is represented

by blue in this distribution?

Language Distributions - 4

Uralic

Language Distributions - 5

What language family is represented by

this distribution?

Language Distributions - 5

Altaic

Language Subdivisions - 1

What is a collection of

languages related through a

common ancestral tongue that

existed long before recorded

history called?

Language Subdivisions - 1

language family

Language Subdivisions - 2

What term refers to a culture’s

system of written communication?

Language Subdivisions - 2

literary tradition

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?

Language Subdivisions - 3

A) language branch

B) dialect

C) vernacular

Language Subdivisions - 4

A) a collection of languages that share a

common origin in the recent past and

display relatively few differences in

grammar and vocabulary

B) this type of language is designated by the

government for use in laws, reports and

public objects such as road signs, money

and stamps.

Language Subdivisions - 4

A) group

B) official

Language Subdivisions - 5

A) A language that is absorbed by

another language but influences

it.

B) The grammatical arrangement

of a language

C) An intrusive language that

influences the native language.

Language Subdivisions - 5

A) substrate

B) syntax

C) superstrate

Indo-European Languages - 1

The diffusion of Indo-European

languages across the globe is

closely related to what two

concepts?

Indo-European Languages - 1

Colonialism

migration

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.

Indo-European Languages - 2

Celtic

Indo-European Languages - 3

What Indo-

European

language

branches are

represented by

the

A) red

B) dark blue

C) green

on the map?

Indo-European Languages - 3

A) Germanic

B) Slavic

C) Romance

Indo-European Languages - 4

A) In these three European

countries a majority of the

people speak tongues in the

Uralic language family?

B) This language, spoken in

Spain/SW France, is

unrelated to any other known

language?

Indo-European Languages - 4

A) Hungary, Finland and

Estonia

B) (Euskera) Basque

Indo-European Languages - 5

A) According to the Kurgan hearth theory,

what are two characteristics of the

lifestyle that the originators of the Indo-

European languages lead?

B) According to the Anatolian hearth

theory, how did the originators of the

Indo-European languages come to

dominate Europe?

Indo-European Languages - 5

A) Nomadic (horse and cattle

herdering) warriors

B) They had higher population

growth because they were

sedentary farmers.

Terms - 1

a boundary between language

regions.

Terms - 1

isogloss

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?

Terms - 2

lingua franca

Terms - 3

A) 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.

B) Belgium is a good example of this type of

country with significant populations of

people speaking different languages?

C) Chinese is written in the form of what?

Terms - 3

A) esperanto

B) multilingual state

C) ideograms

Terms - 4

A) This language with no native speakers

and is created when people combine

parts of two of more languages into a

simplified structure and vocabulary.

B) 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.

Terms - 4

A) pidgin

B) creole

Terms - 5

A) Two terms (often considered derogatory)

used by European settlers in South Africa for

Khoisan people who spoke using clicks.

B) Mixture of African languages and Arabic

which arose along the East African coast and

is used there as a lingua franca.

C) The spread of Niger-Congo languages is

linked to a migration by these peoples from

their cultural hearth near Cameroon and

Nigeria.

Terms - 5

A) Hottentots/Bushmen

B) Swahili

C) Bantu

English - 1

Approximately how many

people worldwide speak

English as a first language (±

50 million)

English - 1

350 million

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)?

English - 2

British Received Pronunciation

(BRP)

English - 3

Describe how English is related

to other languages by

indicating its family, branch

and group.

English - 3

Indo-European family

Germanic branch

West Germanic group

English - 4

A) 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?

English - 4

A) Angles, Saxons and Jutes

B) Normans

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?

English - 5

A) Middle Atlantic

B) Spelling, Pronunciation and

Vocabulary

Potpourri - 1

This is the most commonly

spoken first language?

Potpourri - 1

Mandarin

Potpourri - 2

This is the most important

language family in sub-

Saharan Africa?

Potpourri - 2

Niger-Congo

Potpourri - 3

A) What previously extinct

language has been revived in

the second half of the 20th

century?

B) Besides the above language,

list two other sacred languages

that are extinct in terms of

everyday or vernacular usage?

Potpourri - 3

A) Hebrew

B) Sanskrit, Latin

Potpourri - 4

A) 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?

Potpourri - 4

A) Hindi

B) Khoisan

Potpourri - 5

In what branch of the Indo-

European language family do

these languages belong?

A)Romanian

B)Swedish

C)Ukrainian

D)French

E)Serbo-Croatian

Potpourri - 5

A) Romance

B) Germanic

C) Slavic

D) Romance

E) Slavic