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Languages Chapter 5
Flashcards for vocabulary and questions from the "Wozepardy" game.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The geographic study of the distribution of languages provides a good example of the fragile balance between _______________ and ___________ __________. | Globalization, local diversity |
| The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as in the case with letters in English | Ideograms |
| In how many countries is English an official language? | 57 |
| Russian is part of which family, branch, and group? | Family: Indo-European Branch: Balto-Slavic branch Group: East Slavic |
| What language is the most important in Pakistan? | Urdu |
| A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people ot have the same meaning | Language |
| How is the Chinese written language different from the English written language? | Characters are ideograms, and they represent ideas rather than phonetic sounds. |
| A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary; ex. West Germanic is a ____________ ____________ of Germanic. | Language group |
| In what three ways are British English and American English different? | Spelling, vocabulary, and pronunciation |
| Immigrants to which American colonies had the most diverse background? Hint: This region included New York, home to many Dutch and other peoples, and Pennsylvania, home of the Quakers. | Middle Atlantic States |
| Which language has the most native speakers? | Mandarin |
| What is the most important language family in sub-Saharan Africa? | Niger-Congo branch |
| What would the language of Hebrew be categorized as? | An revived language |
| A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of français and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English," respectively | Franglais |
| The language of Icelandic changed less than any other Scandinavian language because of __________________. | isolation |
| A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | Lingua franca |
| English is part of which group, branch, and family? | Group: West Germanic Branch: Germanic Family: Indo-European |
| The most widely spoken language in Southeast Asia is spoken in which country? What is the name of the language? What family does it belong to? | People's Republic of China, Mandarin, Sino-Tibetan |
| Dialect spoken by some African Americans | Ebonics |
| All but three countries in Europe speak an Indo-European language. Which three countries? | Estonia, Finland, and Hungary |
| The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | Official language |
| In a diagram where the leaves of a tree represent languages, what would the roots, trunks, and branches represent? | Roots:Prehistoric superfamilies Trunks: Families Branches: Branches, obviously |
| A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated; ex. Patois in Jamaica | Creole or creolized language |
| How did different dialects develop within England? | The presence of many different invaders and tribes caused there to be differences in dialects within the country. |
| Which country were the first speakers of English from? | The Jutes and Angles came form Denmark, and the Saxons came from Germany. |
| A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | Language family |
| The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom | British Received Pronunciation (BPR) |
| What was the dialect spoken by Roman soldiers? | Vulgar Latin |
| The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication | Standard language |
| French replaced english following the Norman invasion in what year? | A.D. 1066 |
| What is the second most spoken language family in Europe? Where are they spoken? | Uralic; Estonia, Finland, and Hungary |
| What are the two largest language families? | Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan |
| Combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans; ex. "Pero, like..." | Spanglish |
| What is the second largest language family? | Sino-Tibetan |
| A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate; ex. outside of the city of Manchester a different dialect is spoken | Isogloss |
| A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation; ex. Southern: "ya'll" and Bostonian: "Ha-vaad University" | Dialect |
| A form of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communication among speakers of two different languages | Pidgin language |
| A language that is written as well as spoken | Literary tradition |
| According to the theory stating that the Indo-European language family originated in Anatolia, the family was spread by means of _______________. | agriculture |
| _______:Canada::___________:United States | French, Spanish; Both are official languages alongside English. |
| A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | Language branch |
| The two main languages in South America are ___________ and ____________. | Spanish, Portuguese |
| Combination of German and English | Denglish |
| Angles and Normans contributed to the development of the English language when they ______________ _______________. | invaded England |
| A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | Isolated language |
| A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | Extinct language |
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