15930864178 | how many languages in the world | 7000 | 0 | |
15930864179 | what are of the world holds most languages? | sub-saharan africa | 1 | |
15930864180 | how many languages are spoken by at least 100 million people? | 10 | 2 | |
15930864181 | how are languages created | language divergence and convergence | 3 | |
15930864182 | Examples of dead language | latin, Phoenician | 4 | |
15930864183 | why are languages disappearing at an accelerated rate? | globalization | 5 | |
15930864184 | hierarchy of language classification | family has branches branch have groups groups have language language has dialects dialect has accents | 6 | |
15930864185 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 7 | |
15930864186 | social dialects | can denote social class and standings | 8 | |
15930864187 | vernacular dialects | the common, slang, speech of a region | 9 | |
15930864188 | accent | how a language is pronounced | 10 | |
15930864189 | how many language families are there | 19 | 11 | |
15930864190 | what are the major six? | indo-european sino-tibetan afro-asiatic niger-congo dravidian Austraneseian | 12 | |
15930864191 | how many people speak at Indo-European language | 1.5 billion | 13 | |
15930864192 | what language family is spoken most widely? by how many people (not only native speakers) | Indo-European 50% of world speaker | 14 | |
15930864193 | Where did Indo-European language originate? | Proto-Indo-Europeans 6000 - 4500 BCE | 15 | |
15930864194 | main branches | germanic, romance, baltic-slavic, Indo-Iranian | 16 | |
15930864195 | Germanic | Dutch German English | 17 | |
15930864196 | Romance | Spanish french italian | 18 | |
15930864197 | baltic-slavic | russian polish czech | 19 | |
15930864198 | Indo-Iranian | Urdu Hindu Bengali | 20 | |
15930864199 | How many countries is English the official language? | 42 countries | 21 | |
15930864200 | why is english so widely spoken | diffusion throughout the world of years of British colonialism | 22 | |
15930864201 | how did english develop | celtic tribes germanic tribes Anglo conversion to christianity | 23 | |
15930864202 | what language are Romance languages based upon | Indo-European | 24 | |
15930864203 | what widely spoken language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family | Sinitic (mandarin, 1,075) Tibeto-Burman (burmese 32) | 25 | |
15930864204 | popular language belongs to Afro-Asiatic | Arabic | 26 | |
15930864205 | revival language belongs to the Afro-Asiatic family | Hebrew | 27 | |
15930864206 | most prominent language of the Niger-Congo family | Swanili | 28 | |
15930864207 | polyglot state | countries in which more than one language is spoken | 29 | |
15930864208 | monolingual | speakers of only one language | 30 | |
15930864209 | does the united states have an official language | no | 31 | |
15930864210 | how many official languages in Canada? | 2 | 32 | |
15930864211 | how many official languages in Nigeria | 1 | 33 | |
15930864212 | how many official languages in Switzerland | 4 | 34 | |
15930864213 | how many official languages in India | 16 | 35 | |
15930864214 | Six official languagees of the United Nations | english mandarin-chinese russian french spanish arabic | 36 | |
15930864215 | toponym | place name | 37 | |
15931215475 | language | organized system of spoken words by which people communicate with one another | 38 | |
15931215476 | lingua france | when multiple languages are spoken in one region, one will be used to communicate or conduct trade ( english, french, Swahili) | 39 | |
15931215477 | first language | prototongue | 40 | |
15931215478 | language divergence | speakers of some language scatter and and develop variations of language | 41 | |
15931215479 | language convergence | two languages become one | 42 | |
15931215480 | reverse reconsturction | common words for an animal, particularly an econ fr animal and track back to organ of place where animal existed | 43 | |
15931215481 | why do we use reverse reconstruction | to trace the origins of langauge | 44 | |
15931215482 | language replacement | when a dominating language replaces another language | 45 | |
15931215483 | Language Extinction | language is no longer used by people | 46 | |
15931215484 | language revival | people are trying to preserve logan diversity in language (ainu in japan) | 47 | |
15931215485 | what is unique about Basque | language is isolated and has no connections to any other lamgauge | 48 | |
15931215486 | isolated language | a language that is not related to any other language and this not connected to any language families | 49 | |
15931215487 | native language | lamgauge is first language spoken | 50 | |
15931215488 | Creole language | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with an indigenous language and survives long enough to become a mother tongue | 51 | |
15931215489 | english family, branch, group, language, dialects, accents | indo european, germanic branch, west germanic, english, american, boston | 52 | |
15931215490 | pidgin language | a form of speech that adopts simplified vocab from a dominating group used for communication between speakers of two different languages | 53 | |
15931215491 | why's english adopted as the official language in nigeria | to communicate with others | 54 | |
15931215492 | BRP | British Received Pronunciation | 55 | |
15931215493 | most widely spoken language in india | Hindi, indo european | 56 | |
15931215494 | ideograms | pictures that represent concepts rather than sounds ( chinese, japanese) | 57 | |
15931215495 | official langauge | declared to be the language used in legal and government proceedings | 58 | |
15931215496 | phonetic symbols | letters used to represent sounds, not ideas | 59 | |
15969190164 | race | based on superficial biological characteristics | 60 | |
15969190165 | examples of centripetal forces | nationalism, common culture religion, language, ethnicity, the dominant city, symbols like flags and songs, sporting events, compact states ( france) | 61 | |
15969190166 | centripetal force | forces that unify a state | 62 | |
15969190167 | ethnicity | defined by shared culture traits. based on linkage to ancestral homeland and shared history | 63 | |
15969190168 | genocide | when an ethnic or racial group tries to kill another racial or ethnic group ( Rohingya refugee crisis) | 64 | |
15969190169 | culture | based on charmed social characteristics ( religion, language, social, organization, economics, customize and traditions, government | 65 | |
15969190170 | ethnic cleansing | process in which a racial or ethnic group the times to expel another group | 66 | |
15969190171 | state | a sovereign stare that is over whelmingly dominated by one ethnic city or nationality | 67 | |
15969190172 | nationality | term encompassing all the citizens of a state. aka country | 68 | |
15969190173 | 2 definition of nationality | identify a group of people who occupy a specific territory and are bound together by a shared ethnicity | 69 | |
15969190174 | when was the classification system of race developed | europe 18th century, caucasians, mongoloids, blacks | 70 | |
15969190175 | 1 definition of nationality | a term that encompasses all the citizens of a state | 71 | |
15969190176 | largest race in america, 2, 3 | white, black/african, asian | 72 | |
15969190177 | ethnocentrism | believe your cultural identity to be superior to others | 73 | |
15969190178 | largest concentration of african americans locates in america | southeast | 74 | |
15969190179 | largest concentration of asians located in america | west ( california) | 75 | |
15969190180 | largest concentration of native americans located in america | arizona, alaska | 76 | |
15969190181 | favela | poor ethnic neighborhood ( brazil) | 77 | |
15969190182 | barrio | neighborhood, indicates slums in venezuela | 78 | |
15969190183 | difference between race and ethnicity | race is based on biological features, ethnic groups are culture traits | 79 | |
15969190184 | ghetto | religion in which an ethnic minority live because of economic, legal or government pressures | 80 | |
15969190185 | is hispanics a race or ethnic group | ethnic group | 81 | |
15969190186 | ethnic enclave | where an ethnic minority is concentrated and surrounded by another group | 82 | |
15969190187 | general clusters of hispanics in america | southwest, south east of florida, northeast | 83 | |
15969190188 | nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a nationally a.k.a. patriotism | 84 | |
15969190189 | Why are centripetal forces vital to nationalism? | they unify states | 85 | |
15969190190 | common centripetal forces seen in the us | american football | 86 | |
15969190191 | centrifugal force | forces that divide a state | 87 | |
15969190192 | examples of centrifugal forces | multiple languages, religions, ethnicity. Excessive immigration to create aheterogeneous society. Income display. elongated or fragmented state | 88 |
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