5.2 And 5.4 Flashcards
German invasion
Angles, jutes and saxons conquered the British isles.
Norman invasion
They spoke French and invaded England
Diffusion of English and major way of it spreading
People in England migrated from west to north, the Internet is a major way of English spreading
Lingua franca
Language of international communication, a common language that people use
Logograms
How Chinese is written
Vulgar Latin
How normal everyday people spoke, used by common people in the Roman Empire. Different from more formal, classical Latin
2 theories on how language spread
Nomadic warrior and sedentary farmer
Language family, and the largest one and second largest
Similar source of common sounds, Indo European then sino tibeton
Language branch
Collection of common sounds
Centripetal
To pull or unify
Centrifugal
Fractures
Pidgin
Fusion or meshing together of a collaziners language and native
Creole
Been around longer, expanded
Dialect
How words are pronounced
Isogloss
A barrier between different languages
Endangered languages, and patterns
A language that kids are not learning anymore, only old people speak it
Isolated language, and example
A language that is unrelated to any other, basque and Korean are two
Why are languages going extinct
Isn’t being used, it’s limited to a domain, children aren’t learning and only old people speak it
How countries are preserving a language
Teaching it in schools and speaking it more
