Chapters 8, 9, 10, 31
Means of communicating using signs, gestures or sounds | ||
Variants of standard language | ||
A group of languages that are thought to have descended from a single, common ancestral tongue | ||
The languages commonality is more definite | ||
Individual languages | ||
Geographic Boundary | ||
People who speak their language but cannot write it | ||
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | ||
Languages spoken by about half the world's peoples | ||
Union of languages | ||
Break up of languages | ||
Modification of a language by stronger cultures | ||
Tracing language change | ||
Process of finding a vocab of a distinct language and then going backwards. | ||
Origin of Indo-European | ||
Pre-Proto Indo-European language | ||
2nd oldest, 2nd largest, less widely spread family | ||
Oldest, largest and most widely spread distributed family | ||
Speakers of this language arrived to North America last | ||
Proto Indo-European started in a farming community (Anatolia) | ||
Proto Indo-European began in the empire-building Kurgan culture (Ukraine) | ||
The study of place names | ||
Multilingual countries select a language to enhance communication | ||
Countries in which only one language is spoken | ||
Countries in which more than one language is in use. | ||
A common language between 2 different language speakers | ||
Combining parts of 2 or more languages | ||
A pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people | ||
An effort to create a world language | ||
Belief that one race is more superior to another one | ||
socially recognized cultural differences that set groups apart from each other | ||
a society in which several ethnic groupings coexist, each living in communities or regions variously separate from the others | ||
a small ethnic area in the rural countryside; sometimes called a folk island. | ||
a culturally shared trait that gives an ethnic group a strengthened sense of awareness and self-identity | ||
The regeneration of a long - dormant culture through internal renewal and external infusion. |