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Midterm-languages Flashcards

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Material culture

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Physical, visible elements

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What is culture?

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A way of life?

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Non-material culture

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Invisible intangible

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Non gentically predetermined

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Non material

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T/F not a result of biological inheritance

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T

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What is one of the central components of culture in Africa?

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Language.

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How many languages worldwide?

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30000

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How many languages are African?

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1/3

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An African language has how many speakers?

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About 200,000 speakers

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T/F African countries have standard/official languages

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True

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Anglophone - Liberia, South Africa are

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Some classifications that countries are under English

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Francophone - Togo, Gabon speak what?

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French

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Lusophone - Angola, Mozambique speak what?

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Portuguese

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Monolingual countries speak how many languages?

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1 e.g. Arabic, North Africa, except Algeria.

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Bilingual countries?

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Cameroon and South Africa

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Which countries are multilingual?

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Senegal and Nigeria

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Apart from Arabic, which is the most widespread spoken language? How many speakers roughly?

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Swahili and Hausa, each with more than 30 million speakers

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African Languages belong to different what?

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Different language families - specifically 6 different ones

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How many African language families are there?

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6

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What is the most important language in the Afro-Asiatic group?

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Arabic

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Afro-Asiatic or Hamito- semantic is one language family - this is the most important language in North Africa. Includes languages spoken in Asia (Middle East) and North Africa

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Study this

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Amharric, in the Afro- Asiatic family, is the official language of what?

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Ethiopia

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Other Semitic languages include

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Tigre in Eritrea, Berber language in Northwest Africa, and Somali in Samalia

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Nilo - Saharan Languages: spoken along parts of the Nile in; Chad, Uganda, Western Sudan, Western Kenya

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Second language family

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Khoisan: smallest language family in Africa.

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  • Has no more than 100,000 speakers altogether.
  • mostly spoken by the Khoikhoi and the San of South Eastern Africa.
  • the languages in this group are also sometimes called the “click” languages.
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(4) Niger-Congo - kordofanian

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This language family is made up of two subfamilies; Niger-Congo and Kardofanian.
-the Kordofanian subfamily is made up of 30 languages - all of them found in the Nubia Hills of Southern Sudan.

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Which subfamily language covers almost of Africa? Below the Sahara desert.

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Niger-Congo

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3 of 4 speakers belong.
-has several branches:
Central-Southern Africa. Examples- Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Swazi, Bemba, kikuyu, Swahili. A branch

B branch
West sudanic languages in the Niger Delta.

C - Kwa Branch: Akan in the west Africa.
D West Atlantic branch

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Ask Em for clarity

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5th language?

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Malaya-Polynesian family

E.g. Malagasy in Madagascar

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6th language?

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Indo-European family:
Has 2 members:
English and Afrikaans.
They are indigenous to groups in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Liberia

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To simplify communication, some nations have adopted national and regional languages such as:

A-Hausa in parts of West Africa
B- Swahili or Kiswahili in East Africa.

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National and regional languages

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A Bantu language that belongs to the Niger-Congo language family?

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Swahili

32
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Swahili serves as a national or official language in at least how many nations? Which ones?

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4 - Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Comerous,

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1 - Through more than 12 centuries of contact between Arabic speakers and coastal East African communities,
2- due to contact with European and other societies over the past 5 centuries, some Swahili words are derived from:

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Arabic
Persian
Portuguese
German
English
French

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