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| 7939971469 | What is the approximate number of languages? | 6900 | 0 | |
| 7939971470 | Who many of these are spoken by 100,000,000 people? | 11 | 1 | |
| 7939971471 | Mandern has the highest number of people who speak what? | English | 2 | |
| 7939971472 | English is the most spoken Lang. Where? | Around the the world | 3 | |
| 7939971473 | Language | Communication through speech and it is understood to have the same meaning | 4 | |
| 7939971474 | Literary tradition | A system of written communication | 5 | |
| 7939971475 | official language | When the government of a country designates one or more languages as the one to be used for everything. | 6 | |
| 7939971476 | Does the U.S have an official language? | No | 7 | |
| 7939971477 | A language family are the what? | Tree trunks | 8 | |
| 7939971478 | English is the official language of how many countries? | 57 | 9 | |
| 7939971479 | In the last 4 centuries what country has conlonized all over the globe? | England | 10 | |
| 7939971480 | 1600s | Ireland(celts) 2,000 BC | 11 | |
| 7939971481 | 1609 | 1609> N. Am(Canada and us) | 12 | |
| 7939971482 | Mid 1700s | S Asia | 13 | |
| 7939971483 | S. Pacific | 1800s | 14 | |
| 7939971484 | S africa | Late 1800s | 15 | |
| 7939971485 | 1899 | Us> Philippines | 16 | |
| 7939971486 | Angles | South Denmark | 17 | |
| 7939971487 | Saxons | Northwest Germany | 18 | |
| 7939971488 | Jutes | North Denmark | 19 | |
| 7939971489 | 800 AD | Northwest Germany | 20 | |
| 7939971490 | Dialects | The spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary that vary in dialect | 21 | |
| 7939971491 | Why do we have different dialects in the us? | We do because of English migration | 22 | |
| 7939971492 | Isogloss | A boundary of word usage | 23 | |
| 7939971493 | Trunk | Language family; pre historic | 24 | |
| 7939971494 | branch | Language branch; several thousands of years ago | 25 | |
| 7939971495 | Indo European family | 8 branches | 26 | |
| 7939971496 | The 8 branches of the indo European family are...? | Indo Iranian, romance, Germanic, Baltic Slavic, Albanian, Armenian, Greek, and Celtic | 27 | |
| 7939971497 | Indo Iranian Branch | Clustered in South Asia - east group(India) - hindi(India) West group - Persian - poshto - kurdish | 28 | |
| 7939971498 | Germanic branch | Recent split from branch - West Germanic= eng., Dutch, fl, af - north germanic= Swedish, danish, noreign, Iceland | 29 | |
| 7939971499 | Balto Slavic | West= polish, Czech, Slovak South= Slavic, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian East Slavic= Russia, Ukrainian, belarusam | 30 | |
| 7939971500 | Balkanization | Ethnic cleansing | 31 | |
| 7939971501 | South 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 country | 32 | |
| 7939971502 | Romance branch evolved from what? | The romans Latin; 2,000 years ago(450 AD) | 33 | |
| 7939971503 | Romance branch includes... | Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, romunch, catalunch | 34 | |
| 7939971504 | Vulgar Latin | Roman soldiers spoke this | 35 | |
| 7939971505 | "Proto" indo euro | Pre history; before written language | 36 | |
| 7939971506 | 2 theories of the hearth of indo European | 1. | 37 | |
| 7939971507 | Sinto- 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 - Korean | 38 | |
| 7939971508 | Middle East and Central Asia families | - Afro- asiatic- Aratic, Hebrew, Somali, berlea - Altaic- Turkish, Uzbek, Mongolian, Kazakh - Uralic- estoniam, Finland, hungeriam | 39 | |
| 7939971509 | African language families | Niger- Congo, sub Saharan; most important at 95%. Swahili- literary history - nico- Saharam - Khoisam | 40 | |
| 7939971510 | extinct language | No longer spoken nor read | 41 | |
| 7939971511 | language revivals | Hebrew and keltic | 42 | |
| 7939971512 | Araimic | Religious language thought of to have made Arabic - 1948 Israel | 43 | |
| 7939971513 | Ben hudda | Started the revival of Hebrew | 44 | |
| 7939971514 | multilingual states | Belgium and Switzerland | 45 | |
| 7939971515 | Isolated language | Basque; located in Spain and France mountains | 46 | |
| 7939971516 | Islandic | Iceland; least changed in the Germanic branch | 47 | |
| 7939971517 | Lingual Franca | Examples are airline industry, internet, business/trade | 48 | |
| 7939971518 | Pidgeon | A mashup of two languages | 49 | |
| 7944912237 | Minor Romance languages... | Romanian, Romansh, Catalan, Sardinian, and ladino | 50 | |
| 7944912244 | Francien | 51 | ||
| 7944912238 | Language family | A collection of languages related through a commen ancestral language that existed long before recorded history | 52 | |
| 7944912239 | Indo Iranian languages are clustered where? | South Asia | 53 | |
| 7944912240 | Romance languages are clustered where? | Southwestern Europe and Latin America | 54 | |
| 7944912241 | Germanic languages are clustered where? | Northwestern Europe and north America | 55 | |
| 7944912242 | Balto Slavic languages are clustered where? | Eastern Europe | 56 | |
| 7944912243 | Language group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a commen origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 57 |