Unit 3 THE GLOBAL LINGUISTIC MOSAIC
Chapters 8, 9, 10, 31
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| 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. |