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25 Cards in this Set
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In Belgium, they speak __________ in the North and ____________in the South.
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Flemish, French
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Although the North speaks _________, Brussels actually speaks ____________.
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French, Flemish
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Extinct languages on the language tree are represented with ________________.
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Dead branches
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An isogloss is ________________________. Example _______________
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a distinct line between languages
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A dialect is _____________________________________________________.
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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In Illinois they say soda/pop while in WI it is soda/pop
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pop, soda
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Multilingual states are
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countries with more than one language
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The ancestor of Indo-European is ___________. It’s source or homeland lies north of the ____________. It’s ancestor is ___________________.
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Caucasus, Caspian Sea, ?
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_________%
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pie chart) of the internet is in English
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Why did most African countries change their place names after giving up colonial rule?
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to show their independence Examples of changed place names:___________
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_________is the most widely used Indo-European language.
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English
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The language family on Madagascar is _________________. It is an example of the term ___________________ because it is not related to other African language family’s because of its distance and doesn’t have shared words.
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Austronesian, |
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The study and origin of place names is called ____________.
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toponym |
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A common language that is used among speakers of a different language for trade purposes is __________________.
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pigin
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The ancestor of proto-Indo European is _________________.
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Causus
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A regional variation of a language is known as _____________
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dialect
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When a pidgin evolves into a country's primary language, it is known as _______.
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creole
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English came to the Celts with the invasion of Germanic tribes such as the __________ and the _________.
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Describe English and Chinese in terms of numbers of speakers and diffusion of the language:____________________________________________________.
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English is more distributed throughout the world, while the number of Chinese speakers is high because of the population in China. |
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Nigeria has _________languages, with __________being its official language.
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???, Englsih
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Language convergence is ____________________.
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when a language dies out because it comes into close contact with a more dominant language |
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Most streets named Martin Luther King Jr. are found in the _____ part of the US.
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southern
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___________________are examples of Romance languages
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French, Spanish, and Italian
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English borrows words from other languages, most notably from _______ and the Norman invasion.
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When a collection of languages within a branch share a recent common origin and have relatively few differences in vocabulary and grammar, this is a _________________.
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subfamily/ language group
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