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Pathways 3 Unit9
Pathways 3 Unit9 Q&A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are two examples of languages that have few speaker? | Tuvan, Aka, Seri, Djawi. |
| How many languages are critically or sever endangered? | more than 1,000 |
| What are some ways that languages die? | they are taken over by more dominant languages political pressures, commercial pressures. |
| How do the Piraha tribe refer to quantities? What does this tell us? | Few, Many. Quantities is cultural. Not innate. |
| What kind of information can the Seri language tell scientists? What other types of information can we learn from vanishing languages? | we can learn about medicinal plants and about the history and survival skills of the world's cultures habitats and behaviors of animals, nutrition food source similar to wheat. |
| What is the goal of the Enduring Voices Project? what is one example of their work | to preserve disappearing languages. they document and record language the cultural information the languages contain. |
| How does political pressure effect the survival of smaller languages? | when governments pass laws that promote dominant languages, or ban the use of smaller languages in education and the media. |
| why do children from non-dominant language groups tend to lose their native language as they grow up, attend school, and enter the workforce? | people disapprove of these languages because they believe they are barrier to success. children have a strong desire to conform. |
| why may monolingual business employees find themselves at a disadvantage? | they will be less successful because they will be unable to communicate and conduct business with countries such as China, for example. |
| where did the world's population increase the most in the second half of the twentieth century? | developing counties |
| what are three of the most rapidly growing language groups? | Begali, Tamil, Malay |
| Why is the dominance of one language useful in science? | It allows for international collaboration and research. |
| How much scientific literature is already published in English? | More than 90% |
| What is an example of a dominant language that died? When and where was it dominant? | Latin, Until end of 1600's, in Europe. |
| Why were Arabic,Mandarin,English,French,Russian, and Spanish chosen as the official languages of the United Nations? Give two reasons. | more than half countries. 40% population. |
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