Language Genetics Flashcards
1
Q
Eurasia
A
Uralic
Altaic
Caucasian
Indo-European
2
Q
Oceania
A
Austronesian
Australian-Papuan
3
Q
West Asia/Middle East and Africa
A
Afro-asiatic
4
Q
Africa
A
Niger-Congo
Nilo-Saharan
Khoisan
5
Q
Language isolates
A
Japanese Korean Vietnamese Basque Sumerian
6
Q
Western Germanic branch
A
English German (Germany Austria Liechtenstein Switzerland) Dutch (Netherlands) Flemish (Belgium) Afrikaans Yiddish (us Israel) Frisian (northwest Netherlands) Luxemburgish Pennsylvania Dutch
7
Q
Northern branch of Germanic
A
Icelandic Faroese (Faroe islands) Norwegian Danish (Greenland and Denmark ) Swedish (Sweden and Finland)
8
Q
Eastern branch
A
Visigothic (Spain and North Africa)
Ostrogothic (Ukraine)
9
Q
4 dialects of old English
A
West Saxon
Kentish
Mercian
Northumbrian
10
Q
Asia
A
Sink-Tibetan
Dravidian
Tai
Mon-Khmer