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Languages of Oceania

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Languages of Africa
Culture
Languages of Oceania
Languages of Hong Kong
Languages of Malaysia
Languages of Taiwan
Languages of Macau
Languages of the Philippines
Mandarin Chinese
Trans-cultural diffusion
English language
Mandarin
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Languages of Cameroon
Languages of Mauritius
Languages of Seychelles
Languages of Vanuatu
Languages of the United States
Languages of Europe
Indo-European languages
Language isolate
Finns
French language
chapter 5

Chapter 5 Origin and Diffusion of English- *English is spoken fluently by one-half billion people, more then any language except Mandarin. *Mandarin is clustered in China, while English has diffused world wide. *English is an official language in 50 countries English Colonies: *Distribution of English is because of migrants from England *English is an official language in almost all of its past colonies *English first diffused west --> went to N. America in 17th century *English beat France in a battle in 18th century--secured English as a principal language in N.America

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Key Issue 2: Why is English Related to Other Languages? Indo-European Branches Language Family - a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history Language Branch - a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago Indo European is divided into eight branches. Large numbers of people speaks the first four, Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic. They are clustered in South Asia, southwestern Europe and Latin America, northwestern Europe and North America, and Eastern Europe. English and German are closely related. They are part of a language group West Germanic – they are structurally similar and have many words in common.
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