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7939971469What is the approximate number of languages?69000
7939971470Who many of these are spoken by 100,000,000 people?111
7939971471Mandern has the highest number of people who speak what?English2
7939971472English is the most spoken Lang. Where?Around the the world3
7939971473LanguageCommunication through speech and it is understood to have the same meaning4
7939971474Literary traditionA system of written communication5
7939971475official languageWhen the government of a country designates one or more languages as the one to be used for everything.6
7939971476Does the U.S have an official language?No7
7939971477A language family are the what?Tree trunks8
7939971478English is the official language of how many countries?579
7939971479In the last 4 centuries what country has conlonized all over the globe?England10
79399714801600sIreland(celts) 2,000 BC11
793997148116091609> N. Am(Canada and us)12
7939971482Mid 1700sS Asia13
7939971483S. Pacific1800s14
7939971484S africaLate 1800s15
79399714851899Us> Philippines16
7939971486AnglesSouth Denmark17
7939971487SaxonsNorthwest Germany18
7939971488JutesNorth Denmark19
7939971489800 ADNorthwest Germany20
7939971490DialectsThe spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary that vary in dialect21
7939971491Why do we have different dialects in the us?We do because of English migration22
7939971492IsoglossA boundary of word usage23
7939971493TrunkLanguage family; pre historic24
7939971494branchLanguage branch; several thousands of years ago25
7939971495Indo European family8 branches26
7939971496The 8 branches of the indo European family are...?Indo Iranian, romance, Germanic, Baltic Slavic, Albanian, Armenian, Greek, and Celtic27
7939971497Indo Iranian BranchClustered in South Asia - east group(India) - hindi(India) West group - Persian - poshto - kurdish28
7939971498Germanic branchRecent split from branch - West Germanic= eng., Dutch, fl, af - north germanic= Swedish, danish, noreign, Iceland29
7939971499Balto SlavicWest= polish, Czech, Slovak South= Slavic, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian East Slavic= Russia, Ukrainian, belarusam30
7939971500BalkanizationEthnic cleansing31
7939971501South Slavic after ww1- created a country called yugo slavia - Tito was in charge of this country. He died in 1980. - USSR collapses in 1989 - 1990s- everything erupts; brutally murdering until they got their own country32
7939971502Romance branch evolved from what?The romans Latin; 2,000 years ago(450 AD)33
7939971503Romance branch includes...Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, romunch, catalunch34
7939971504Vulgar LatinRoman soldiers spoke this35
7939971505"Proto" indo euroPre history; before written language36
79399715062 theories of the hearth of indo European1.37
7939971507Sinto- Tibetan (east and southeast Asian families)2nd largest family after indo euro - 3/4 of all Chinese speak Mandarin Chinese language written as ideograms - austronesian- 6% of world speaks this;Indonesia= Indonesian and Javanese - Austro- asiatic- Vietnantese - tai Kadai- Thailand - Japanese - Korean38
7939971508Middle East and Central Asia families- Afro- asiatic- Aratic, Hebrew, Somali, berlea - Altaic- Turkish, Uzbek, Mongolian, Kazakh - Uralic- estoniam, Finland, hungeriam39
7939971509African language familiesNiger- Congo, sub Saharan; most important at 95%. Swahili- literary history - nico- Saharam - Khoisam40
7939971510extinct languageNo longer spoken nor read41
7939971511language revivalsHebrew and keltic42
7939971512AraimicReligious language thought of to have made Arabic - 1948 Israel43
7939971513Ben huddaStarted the revival of Hebrew44
7939971514multilingual statesBelgium and Switzerland45
7939971515Isolated languageBasque; located in Spain and France mountains46
7939971516IslandicIceland; least changed in the Germanic branch47
7939971517Lingual FrancaExamples are airline industry, internet, business/trade48
7939971518PidgeonA mashup of two languages49
7944912237Minor Romance languages...Romanian, Romansh, Catalan, Sardinian, and ladino50
7944912244Francien51
7944912238Language familyA collection of languages related through a commen ancestral language that existed long before recorded history52
7944912239Indo Iranian languages are clustered where?South Asia53
7944912240Romance languages are clustered where?Southwestern Europe and Latin America54
7944912241Germanic languages are clustered where?Northwestern Europe and north America55
7944912242Balto Slavic languages are clustered where?Eastern Europe56
7944912243Language groupA collection of languages within a branch that share a commen origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary57

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