Language Flashcards
Sino-Tibetan language family
South East Asia and China
Includes Chinese, Burmese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan
Standard English
Midland dialect
Creole
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
Kurgan Theory
Original Indo-Europeans were from the border between Russia and Kazakhstan and use their horses as weapons to conquer much of Europe and South Asia
Anatolian theory
The first speakers of the Indo-European language lived 2000 years before the Kurgans in eastern Antolia; English spread through farming
Afro-Asiatic Lnaguage Family
Includes Arabic and Hebrew as well as many other languages in Northern Africa and southwestern Asia
Austronesian language family
Malaya Pilynesian language sub families l: Malay, Indonesia, Tagalog, formidable languages, Malagasy, Javanese, Hawaiian
Niger Congo language family
Dominant language family in sub-Saharan Africa mostly Swahili
Germanic branch languages
Indo-European languages including German and Scandinavian Swedish Danish Dutch and ENGLISH
Romance languages
Italian French Spanish and Portuguese and Romanian
What for branches of the Indo-European have a large number of speakers
Germanic
Indo Iranian
Balto slavic
Romance
How many branches are there in the Indo-European
8
Largest language family
Indo European
What is the most use languages in the world
Mandarin
What is the second largest language family
Sino- Tibetan
