Chapter 4 Flashcards
Some languages are so similar that they have a high degree of
Mutual intelligibility
A system of communication based on symbols that have agreed upon meanings is known as
Language dialect
Sign languages are based on
Body movements
Although no word exists in the English language, the Yiddish word farpotchke, means to make something worse when you are trying to fix it. This is an example of
how social factors influence language use and development
Languages that have emerged and evolved within living or historic human communities are called
Natural languages
The Elvish languages featured in The Lord of the Rings would be an example of an
artificial languages
The most well-known example of an artificial language is
Esperanto
It is generally understood that there are how many languages in the world today
6900
A place or region where an innovation, idea, belief, or cultural practice begins is a
Hearths
An example of a language from the Austronesian language family is
Tagalog
Hebrew is an example of a language from the following language family
Afro- Asiastic
Almost half of the world’s people speak languages belonging to this language family
Indo- European
Among geographers and linguists a prevalent , though controversial, theory posits the rise of what transformed the distribution of the worlds languages and language families.
Farming
Within the Roman Empire two classes of Latin existed; the standardized written from came to be known as
Classical Latin
Scholars think that the Indo-European language family may have originated in a region in
Anatolia
