chapter five - language

Question 1

Sino-Tibetan

Answer 1

mandarin

Question 2

afro-asiatic

Answer 2

arabic

Question 3

austro-asiatic

Answer 3

vietnamese

Question 4

altaic

Answer 4

turkish

Question 5

romance

Answer 5

spanish

Question 6

balto-slavic

Answer 6

russian

Question 7

indo-iranian

Answer 7

hindi

Question 8

korean

Answer 8

korean

Question 9

niger-congo

Answer 9

zulu

Question 10

5 Indo European Languages

Answer 10

English 
German
Spanish
French 
Portuguese

Question 11

Creole or creolized languages

Answer 11

A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with indigenous language of the people being dominated.

Question 12

ebonics

Answer 12

dialect spoken by some African americans

Question 13

ideaograms

Answer 13

system of writing used in china and other east Asian countries.

Question 14

isogloss

Answer 14

a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.

Question 15

lingua franca

Answer 15

a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.

Question 16

language family

Answer 16

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.

Question 17

language group

Answer 17

a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin but display a few differences in grammar and vocabulary.

Question 18

language branch

Answer 18

a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.