Terms : Hide Images
| 8715473476 | one-half | nearly ______ of the worlds population speaks a language belonging to the indo-european language family | 0 | |
| 8715480042 | spanish, french, italian, portuguese, and romanian | five most widely spoken romance languages | 1 | |
| 8715492332 | indo-iranian | which branch of the indo-european family has the most speakers | 2 | |
| 8715502438 | eastern europe: ukraine and russia | languages in the balto-slavic branch are found primarily in | 3 | |
| 8715513318 | roman alphabet | what alphabet does english use | 4 | |
| 8715519564 | marija gimbutas | __________ had the theory that language diffused by war | 5 | |
| 8715557652 | colin renfrew | _________ had the theory that language was diffused by farming | 6 | |
| 8715572781 | angles, jutes, saxons | what three european peoles originally came together to form the english language and english people | 7 | |
| 8715586951 | southern denmark | where are the angles from | 8 | |
| 8715590694 | northern denmark | where are the jutes from | 9 | |
| 8715593637 | germany | where are the saxons from | 10 | |
| 8715596575 | franglais | mix of french and english | 11 | |
| 8715596579 | spanglish | mix of spanish and english | 12 | |
| 8715600016 | denglish | mix of german and english | 13 | |
| 8715607693 | english | the most important language of international communication is | 14 | |
| 8715607694 | lingua franca | language of international communication | 15 | |
| 8715613661 | native speakers | a pidgin language has no | 16 | |
| 8715629297 | 90 | languages are spoken by at least 10 million speakers | 17 | |
| 8715632262 | 304 | approximately ____ languages are spoken by between 1 and 10 million people | 18 | |
| 8715640668 | 6,708 , 1 million | the remaining_______ languages are spoken by fewer than ______ people | 19 | |
| 8715645388 | official language | used by government for laws, reports, and public objects such as street signs, money, and stamps | 20 | |
| 8715655939 | literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 21 | |
| 8715660561 | institutional language | used in education, at work, on television, mass media, and government speaks it | 22 | |
| 8715677878 | developing languages | spoken daily, used by all ages | 23 | |
| 8715680578 | vigorous language | spoken daily, used by all ages, lacks literary tradition | 24 | |
| 8715693837 | vigorous language lacks literary tradition | main difference between developing and vigorous language | 25 | |
| 8715697083 | language family | collection of languages related through a common ancestral language | 26 | |
| 8715702908 | language branch | collections of languages within a family | 27 | |
| 8715706161 | language group | collections of languages within a branch displaying similar grammar and vocab | 28 | |
| 8715715355 | indo european and sino tibetan | what are the two largest language families | 29 | |
| 8720260471 | dialect | regional variation of a language | 30 | |
| 8720274052 | vocal, spelling, and pronunciation | dialects are distinguished by three things | 31 | |
| 8720277347 | subdialect | subdivision of a dialect | 32 | |
| 8720285682 | standard language | dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, businesses, education, and mass communication | 33 | |
| 8720304066 | isogloss | word usage boundary | 34 | |
| 8720311186 | north, south, midland, and west | 4 major u.s. dialect regions | 35 | |
| 8720329652 | children begin to learn the and practice it | a language is classified as reawakening when | 36 | |
| 8720342312 | acculturation | a creolized language results from | 37 | |
| 8720346864 | sino tibetan | what is the second largest language family | 38 | |
| 8720351980 | vulgar latin | what was spoken by common people in southern europe | 39 | |
| 8720357623 | denmark | which of the following is the best example of a monolingual state | 40 | |
| 8720366898 | all are in the info european language family | what do the languages of english, spanish, and hindi have in common | 41 | |
| 8720378788 | isolation | why did basque survive despite being surrounded by info european languages | 42 | |
| 8720385161 | europe | which region has the fewest languages that are under threat of extinction | 43 | |
| 8720395120 | toponym | a _______ is a place that reveals what his important to people and what the land is like | 44 | |
| 8720407573 | logograms | as opposed to other languages that are phonetic chinese uses ________ that are not phonetic | 45 | |
| 8720415574 | hebrew | an extinct language but came back and survived | 46 | |
| 8720420568 | greek | what is not a romance language | 47 | |
| 8720429209 | physical | the political boundaries of europe follow boundaries which follow _________ boundaries | 48 | |
| 8720435269 | flemish/dutch | what language is spoken in the northern part of belgium | 49 | |
| 8720441167 | indo european | what language family is french a member of | 50 | |
| 8720448749 | spanish | which of the following is not an official language of switzerland | 51 | |
| 8720461452 | sino tibetan | mandarin chinese is part of what branch | 52 | |
| 8720467654 | normans | not a germanic speaking people that influenced english | 53 | |
| 8720470181 | british colonialism | how was english brought to canada | 54 | |
| 8720615184 | isolated language | language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family | 55 | |
| 8720634791 | extinct language | language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use | 56 | |
| 8720675855 | creolized language | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 57 | |
| 8720694775 | pidgin language | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages | 58 | |
| 8720711344 | received pronunciations (rp) | the dialect of english associated with upper-class britons living in london and now considered standard in the united kingdom | 59 | |
| 8720747565 | English, French, Arabic, russian, spanish, mandarin | 6 languages of the United Nations are | 60 | |
| 8720813146 | 7,106 | how many living languages are in the world | 61 | |
| 8720844109 | roots | superfamilies are known to represent the ______ of the tree | 62 | |
| 8720868295 | flemish speaking north (flanders) and french speaking south (wallonia) | belgium has two lingual regions | 63 | |
| 8720908590 | vocab, spelling, and pronunciation | differences between british english and american english | 64 |
