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Chapter 5 Language Flashcards

1
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Literary Tradition

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The written form of a language

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Dialect

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A form of a language spoken in a local area

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3
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Language Family

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A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history

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Language Branch

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A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages

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5
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Roots represent?

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Possible prehistoric super families trunk=long

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6
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What Germanic tribes invaded England?

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Angles, Saxons, Jutes

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7
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How did the Norman invasion change the English language?

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Vowels= Middle Ages-French

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8
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Why is English the most important language in NA?

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Colonies/ Common spoken language in the world

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9
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What language group is English in?

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West Germanic

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10
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What language branch is English in?

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Germanic

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11
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What language family is English in?

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Indo-European

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12
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Which group of the Germanic Family is extinct?

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East Germanic, Gothic

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13
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Why hasn’t the Icelandic language changed as much as other Germanic languages?

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Isolation

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14
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What usually happens when people who speak a given language migrate to a different location and become isolated from other member if their tribe?

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2 languages/2 dialects, language divergence

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15
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Who are the Romance languages?

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Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romansh

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16
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Who would have spoken vulgar Latin in the Roman Empire

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Soldiers

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17
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What is the most widely spoken language in Brazil

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Portuguese

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18
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What is a creolized language

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A mix of indigenous and colonial languages (French Creole)

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What is the most widely spoken creolized language?

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French Creole

20
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What are the four most frequently spoken branches of Indo-European?

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Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic

21
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What are the two most important languages in South America

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Portuguese and Spanish

22
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In what country do the Flemings and Walloons live?

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Belgium

23
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The Flemings and Walloons speak languages that belong to different

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Language branches or groups

24
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What are the official languages of Switzerland

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Italian, Romansh, French, and German

25
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Of what country is Urdu the most important language of?

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Pakistan

26
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In what language branch is Russian?

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Balto-Slavic

27
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Where do people still speak Celtic languages?

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England, France, British Isles

28
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Marija Gimbutas’ theory points to the first speakers of the Indo-European language as the…

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Ancient Kurgans

29
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Who were the Kurgans?

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Horse and cattle herders form the grasslands of Duss park

30
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Where is Basque spoken?

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Pyrenees Mountains=Isolated language

31
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According to Colin Rehfrew’s Anatolian hearth theory, Indo-European languages diffused…

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With the diffusion of agriculture

32
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What are the two largest language families in the world?

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Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European

33
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Most languages in China belong to what family?

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Sino-Tibetan

34
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What is the most spoken language in the world?

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Mandarin

35
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Chinese is written in the form of…

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Ideograms

36
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Give an example of a revived language

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Hebrew

37
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In which language family is the language spoken in Bulgaria?

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Indo-European

38
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What is the second most widely spoken language family in Europe?

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Uralic

39
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Why are there so many different languages in Africa?

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Isolation between tribes

40
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What is the most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Niger-Congo

41
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On what continent do linguists continue to add newly discovered languages to their list?

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Africa

42
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What is a lingua franca?

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a language understood by people who have different native languages Ex: English

43
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Why did the different dialects develop in England?

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Different Germanic tribes invaders settled in different places

44
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What is an Isogloss?

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A boundary between language regions

45
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What is Franglais?

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The use of English in the French language

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