Chapter 5 Language

Question 1

Literary Tradition

Answer 1

The written form of a language

Question 2

Dialect

Answer 2

A form of a language spoken in a local area

Question 3

Language Family

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Language Branch

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Roots represent?

Answer 5

Possible prehistoric super families trunk=long

Question 6

What Germanic tribes invaded England?

Answer 6

Angles, Saxons, Jutes

Question 7

How did the Norman invasion change the English language?

Answer 7

Vowels= Middle Ages-French

Question 8

Why is English the most important language in NA?

Answer 8

Colonies/ Common spoken language in the world

Question 9

What language group is English in?

Answer 9

West Germanic

Question 10

What language branch is English in?

Answer 10

Germanic

Question 11

What language family is English in?

Answer 11

Indo-European

Question 12

Which group of the Germanic Family is extinct?

Answer 12

East Germanic, Gothic

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Isolation

Question 14

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

Answer 14

2 languages/2 dialects, language divergence

Question 15

Who are the Romance languages?

Answer 15

Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romansh

Question 16

Who would have spoken vulgar Latin in the Roman Empire

Answer 16

Soldiers

Question 17

What is the most widely spoken language in Brazil

Answer 17

Portuguese

Question 18

What is a creolized language

Answer 18

A mix of indigenous and colonial languages (French Creole)

Question 19

What is the most widely spoken creolized language?

Answer 19

French Creole

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic

Question 21

What are the two most important languages in South America

Answer 21

Portuguese and Spanish

Question 22

In what country do the Flemings and Walloons live?

Answer 22

Belgium

Question 23

The Flemings and Walloons speak languages that belong to different

Answer 23

Language branches or groups

Question 24

What are the official languages of Switzerland

Answer 24

Italian, Romansh, French, and German

Question 25

Of what country is Urdu the most important language of?

Answer 25

Pakistan

Question 26

In what language branch is Russian?

Answer 26

Balto-Slavic

Question 27

Where do people still speak Celtic languages?

Answer 27

England, France, British Isles

Question 28

Marija Gimbutas' theory points to the first speakers of the Indo-European language as the...

Answer 28

Ancient Kurgans

Question 29

Who were the Kurgans?

Answer 29

Horse and cattle herders form the grasslands of Duss park

Question 30

Where is Basque spoken?

Answer 30

Pyrenees Mountains=Isolated language

Question 31

According to Colin Rehfrew's Anatolian hearth theory, Indo-European languages diffused...

Answer 31

With the diffusion of agriculture

Question 32

What are the two largest language families in the world?

Answer 32

Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European

Question 33

Most languages in China belong to what family?

Answer 33

Sino-Tibetan

Question 34

What is the most spoken language in the world?

Answer 34

Mandarin

Question 35

Chinese is written in the form of...

Answer 35

Ideograms

Question 36

Give an example of a revived language

Answer 36

Hebrew

Question 37

In which language family is the language spoken in Bulgaria?

Answer 37

Indo-European

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Uralic

Question 39

Why are there so many different languages in Africa?

Answer 39

Isolation between tribes

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Niger-Congo

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Africa

Question 42

What is a lingua franca?

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Why did the different dialects develop in England?

Answer 43

Different Germanic tribes invaders settled in different places

Question 44

What is an Isogloss?

Answer 44

A boundary between language regions

Question 45

What is Franglais?

Answer 45

The use of English in the French language