The Cultural Landscape by Rubenstein Chapter 5: Languages Key Issue 1: Where Are Languages Distributed? Pages 142-149 ***Always keep your key term packet out whenever you take notes from Rubenstein. As the terms come up in the text, think through the significance of the term. Define language: Define official language: Define language family: Define language branch: Define language group: Make brief notes on each of the following language families as you read about them in this section (i.e. how many people speak a language of that family, where spoken, common languages, etc.). See pages 146-149. Indo-European Sino-Tibetan Austronesian Austro-Asiatic Tai Kadai Japanese Korean Afro-Asiatic Altaic Uralic Niger-Congo Nilo-Saharan