VOCAB 5 Flashcards
Creole Language
A language that results from mixing a colonizer’s language with the language of the native people.e.g ENGLISH
Monolingual state
A country that likes identifies to only speak one language. or a country where only one language is spoken.
Global Language
this language is used most commonly around the world.
Toponyms
The name of a place.
Renfrew/ Sedentary Farmer Theory
The theory believes that the proto-indo-ropeans were farmers of the Anatolian hearth from turkey.
Official Language
The legal language enforced by the government used for business and publication of documents.
Multilingual state
A country where multiple languages are spoken.
Centripetal language
A force that brings people together
Centrifugal
A force that draws people apart.
Slavic Languages
Developed from the single Slavic migration the people migrated to different places and were isolated. Russian is the most widely used Slavic language.
Indo-European language Family
The most widely used language family predominant in Europe, North and Latin America , south Asia