Chapter 20: Bilingualism

Question 1

Multilingualism

Answer 1

When more than two languages are involved.

Question 2

Language shift

Answer 2

When a language community changes what language they use.

Question 3

Language loss

Answer 3

When a language is gradually used less and shows signs of decline.

Question 4

Language erosion

Answer 4

When the process of language loss carries on over a few generations.

Question 5

Language death

Answer 5

When no one speaks a specify language any longer.

Question 6

Language preservation

Answer 6

When a community tries to save an eroding language.

Question 7

Language policy

Answer 7

The sum total of ideas, plans and measures taken by the government with respect to the languages and varieties of language in society.

Question 8

Immersion programme

Answer 8

When everything is about a minority language.

Question 9

Transitional programme

Answer 9

When very little amount of time is spent on the minority language.

Question 10

Code switching

Answer 10

When bilinguals change from one language to the other in the course of a single conversation.

Question 11

Loan words

Answer 11

Borrowed words from other languages that become established in the lexicon of another language.

Question 12

Borrowing

Answer 12

The process of using loan words.

Question 13

Loan compounds

Answer 13

Compounds in which at least one of the parts is borrowed from another language.

Question 14

Loan translations

Answer 14

Compounds that are a direct translation from another language.

Question 15

Interference

Answer 15

When parts of other languages make their way into another language.

Question 16

Creole languages

Answer 16

Languages that develop in a short period of time and do not have one single clear ancestor.

Question 17

Pidgin

Answer 17

A simplified linguistic system.

Question 18

Relexification

Answer 18

To replace the vocabulary of a language with words drawn from another language without changing the grammatical structure.

Question 19

Koine

Answer 19

A new variety of language that arises from contact between speakers of different dialects of a language outside the original language community.

Question 20

Bilingualism

Answer 20

When two languages are involved.