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Language
Language
Distribution
Language
subdivisions
Indo-
European
Languages
Terms English Potpourri
1 1 1 1 1 1
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